2021 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #1823689
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:HARD PARTS INTERNAL/MECHANICAL filed July 6, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1823689 (ODI reference 11472507) concerns a 2021 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on July 6, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 17, 2022. 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:hard parts internal/mechanical, 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 engine and engine cooling:engine:hard parts internal/mechanical 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 2021 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
While driving down the road the engine began to run erratically and several seemingly random errors appeared relating to the parking brake, windshield washer fluid, and engine. The vehicle began shaking violently until stalling out on the road. After bringing the truck to the dealer and waiting for weeks to have it returned I was notified that there had been a lifter failure. Vehicle mileage had been at 12,600 miles at this point.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1823689 |
| ODI Number | 11472507 |
| Date Filed | July 6, 2022 |
| Failure Date | February 17, 2022 |
| VIN | 1GCPYFED4MZ |
Similar ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:HARD PARTS INTERNAL/MECHANICAL Complaints for 2021 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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