1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 problems
The 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 has 82 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (41%) concerns brakes. Next are fuel system (10%) and body & structure (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 82 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 42% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 7 and 3
- Injuries and deaths
- 3 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 79,000 miles 25 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 1 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 3 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 5 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 4 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 7 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 0 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 2 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 0 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 2 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 25 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 79,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 7 complaints mention a crash; 3 complaints mention a fire; 3 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1998 ranks 20th most-complained-about out of 29 model years of the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 with enough data (47 complaints in that window).
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
While parked the vehicle caught on fire under the hood . The vehicle was totaled. The dealer and manufacturer have been notified.
I parked this pickup in our driveway and removed the keys from the ignition switch. My two year old son was able to grab the automatic gear shift lever on the steering colum and pull it out of park. My six year old son was run over when the pickup rolled out of the driveway and into my neighbors house. I have contacted chevrolet and have been informed they are nolonger interested in this matter.
The ABS brake system when braking and you hit a bump, pothole or depression the brakes go into anti lock and do not come out. It takes about 1/3 more distance to stop. This is especially bad on snow and ice. When traveling with other pickups in upper canada the other trucks could stop on snow but I would go by them by about 25-30 ft. I had one accident where I was approaching a stop sign at a t in the road and the highway was slippery and I hit a bump as I was stopping.
1998 chevrolet k2500. For some time now the truck has had an intermittent windshield wiper issue (does not work when wet.) 03/25/2009 the wipers stopped working while I was driving in the rain causing a very dangerous situation. Did some research and found out chevrolet has an ongoing reputation for this issue and have recalls on earlier year models but their position is that these problems ended 1997.
I bought this truck with 70k miles on it .has been a good truck but the dash is coming apart and in the near future I do not know what is going to hold the gauges in place. I can not even buy a replacement part for the vehicle from GM and every part out of a salvage yard is in the same condition.