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2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 — Complaint #456786

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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS filed February 25, 2004

NHTSA complaint #456786 (ODI reference 10058984) concerns a 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 and was filed on February 25, 2004. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 14, 2003. The vehicle had 18,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Massachusetts based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments, 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 structure:body:tailgate:hinge and attachments 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 2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2001 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
Component
STRUCTURE:BODY:TAILGATE:HINGE AND ATTACHMENTS
State
Massachusetts
Mileage
18,500 mi

Complaint Description

THE TAILGATE TO MY 2001 CHEVY SILVERADO FELL OFF WHILE DRIVING @ APPROX 50 MPH VEHICLE BEHIND ME WENT OFF ROAD TO AVOID POSSIBLE COLLISION DURING SUMMER 2003, I WAS TOLD I DIDN'T CLOSE IT RIGHT. YESTERDAY 2/24/03 NOTICED ON LINE THE U FOLKS WERE INVESTIGATING SUCH INCIDENTS. *AK

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 456786
ODI Number 10058984
Date Filed February 25, 2004
Failure Date June 14, 2003
VIN 1GCEK19T11E

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