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2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #1557896

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NHTSA Complaint about UNKNOWN OR OTHER filed April 15, 2019

NHTSA complaint #1557896 (ODI reference 11196185) concerns a 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on April 15, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 15, 2019. The vehicle had 93,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as unknown or other, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 cohort independently describe similar unknown or other failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Component
UNKNOWN OR OTHER
State
Ohio
Mileage
93,000 mi

Complaint Description

4X4 TRANSFER CASE ENCODER MOTOR FAILS AND CAUSES YOUR SERVICE 4X4 LIGHT TO COME ON AND YOU CANT SELECT 4X4 ON YOUR VEHICLE.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1557896
ODI Number 11196185
Date Filed April 15, 2019
Failure Date January 15, 2019
VIN 1GCEK29069Z

Similar UNKNOWN OR OTHER Complaints for 2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.