2015 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #2101575
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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT filed June 18, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2101575 (ODI reference 11667609) concerns a 2015 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on June 18, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2020. The vehicle had 82,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Pennsylvania based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:differential unit, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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 power train:driveline:differential unit 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 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 1500. The contact stated that after driving on the highway and driving uphill, the rear differential started grabbing. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was taken to another local dealer, Oliverio Buick (1110 Laurel Hill Rd., McDonald, PA 15057); who determined that the rear differential fluid needed to be drained and refilled. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 82,000. The VIN was not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2101575 |
| ODI Number | 11667609 |
| Date Filed | June 18, 2025 |
| Failure Date | January 1, 2020 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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