2024 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 — Complaint #2121899
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: INTEGRATED TRAILER BRAKE CONTROL filed August 19, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2121899 (ODI reference 11681573) concerns a 2024 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 and was filed on August 19, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 15, 2023. The vehicle had 12,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system: integrated trailer brake control, 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 3500 cohort independently describe similar electrical system: integrated trailer brake control 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 2024 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 3500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 3500. The contact stated that while driving 30 MPH and attempting to depress the brake pedal, the message âTrailer Brakes Disabledâ was displayed. A dealer was contacted. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, and the contact was informed the contact the vehicle was operating as designed, and that neither the vehicle nor the trailer would be diagnosed. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and opened a case. The approximate failure mileage was 12,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2121899 |
| ODI Number | 11681573 |
| Date Filed | August 19, 2025 |
| Failure Date | September 15, 2023 |
| VIN | 1GC4YUEY4RF |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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