2009 Chevrolet Silverado problems
Owners have filed 103 complaints with NHTSA about the 2009 Chevrolet Silverado. Electrical system is the most reported problem area, at 17% of complaints. Next are air bags (16%) and body & structure (14%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 103 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Electrical system 17% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 9 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 7 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 59,000 miles 86 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 | 11 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 19 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 14 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 26 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 6 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 4 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 3 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 2 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 0 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 86 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 58,000 miles. For electrical system specifically, the median reported mileage is about 71,000 miles (14 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 9 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 7 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 84% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2009 ranks 23rd most-complained-about out of 26 model years of the Chevrolet Silverado with enough data (76 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.
On 6/23/13 my father was making a left turn over a 4 lane street. He was hit by a 2008 nissan rouge going between 37-40MPH on the drivers side door. My fathers truck was in motion at 4-6MPH. The truck suffered extensive damage, and my dad passed away hours later at the hospital due to internal bleeding of pelvic area. The trucks drive shaft was cut in a half. The truck has a 5 star side crash safety rating, I do not understand how a car that was not even speeding crumpled the truck that badly.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 chevrolet silverado. The contact stated that while traveling approximately 35 MPH and approaching an intersection, the vehicle abnormally veered off the road. The vehicle proceed to travel off the roadway and went airborne over and embankment before crashing into a ditch. The air bags did not deploy upon impact and the contact sustained moderate to sever injuries. The contact was transported to the hospital via ambulance and a police report was filed accordingly.
2009 chevy silverado lost traction on highway during slippery road conditions, vehicle spun out and hit a metal roped fence head on and also went across the median and slammed the front end of vehicle into a guard rail stopping it instantly from going into on coming traffic. The vehicles damage was on the front end directly in the center causing a wedge into the radiator, engine and bent the front of the frame. The impact was very loud and solid.
Truck comes to scretching haltwith motor running but wont go, door locks and all gagues going up and down a 100 mile an hour. Sometimes everything dead and all of a sudden it comes back on. Air comes and goes. All lights flash. Those uprandom codes. No warning its going to happen. Radio will start playing very load cant shut off. When it does this it sometimes lunges forward aboit twenty feet and may run fine or do it again. Went to dealer truck stayed 2 months. Said they fixed.