21V050000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
2008 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
2 safety recall campaigns, 3 defect investigations (1 open), 1,093 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations31 open
Owner complaints1,093
Complaints citing a crash46
Complaints citing a fire18
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 2 of 2
21V052000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 589AIR BAGS
- 87ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 86UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 45STRUCTURE:BODY
- 44ENGINE
- 34LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
- 23POWER TRAIN
- 19FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.