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.
2011 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
4 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 698 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints698
Complaints citing a crash32
Complaints citing a fire6
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 4 of 4
21V054000
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.
11V007000
SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:SPINDLE
THE DRIVER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AND A CRASH COULD OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING.
10V643000
SUSPENSION:REAR:AXLE:SPINDLE
THE DRIVER MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE AND A CRASH COULD OCCUR WITHOUT WARNING.
What owners report most
- 305AIR BAGS
- 115UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 57STRUCTURE:BODY
- 40ENGINE
- 24ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 18ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- 17SUSPENSION
- 16POWER TRAIN
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2011 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.