2015 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 — Complaint #1757223
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:DIESEL filed July 13, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1757223 (ODI reference 11424641) concerns a 2015 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 and was filed on July 13, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 2, 2017. The vehicle had 280,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel, 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 2500 cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine:diesel 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 2015 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 2500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. The contact stated while driving 70 mph, the vehicle loss motive power and stalled and shifted into reduced power mode. The contact had the vehicle towed to the local dealer who inspected the vehicle and diagnosed the vehicle was a Diesel Exhaust Fluid build-up which caused an extreme burn in the exhaust fluid. The dealer replaced the DEF system and exhaust lines to fix the vehicle however, the failure persisted. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 280,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1757223 |
| ODI Number | 11424641 |
| Date Filed | July 13, 2021 |
| Failure Date | March 2, 2017 |
| VIN | 1GC1KWE81FF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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