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2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD

Gas

Heavy-duty pickup
0 EPA-rated configurations
Data refreshed 2026-10-26

Safety Signal

94 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record

RecallsNHTSA campaigns 2

Complaints1 crash · 1 fire · 1 injured reported 12

Crash ratingnot rated by NHTSA —

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

The 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD is a pickup truck; vehicles over 8,500 lb GVWR are not certified for fuel economy by the EPA, so this page is built from NHTSA's recall, complaint and investigation records. NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for this model year, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of A. Owners have filed 12 complaints, most often about the service brakes.

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Trims & pricing

Source: manufacturer press kitCompare a trim →

Trim	Powertrain	Drive	MSRP	HP	Torque	Wheels
WT	Gas	2WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	17 in
WT	Gas	4WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	17 in
Custom	Gas	2WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	17 in
Custom	Gas	4WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	17 in
LT	Gas	2WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	18 in
LT	Gas	4WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	18 in
LTZ	Gas	2WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	20 in
LTZ	Gas	4WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	20 in
High Country	Gas	2WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	20 in
High Country	Gas	4WD	—	401 hp	464 lb-ft	20 in

MSRP excludes destination. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

No EPA fuel-economy record: the EPA does not certify vehicles over 8,500 lb GVWR. Recall, complaint and investigation data below come from NHTSA.

New-vehicle warranty

Source: manufacturer press kits, make-level

Basic 3 yr / 36,000 mi Powertrain 5 yr / 60,000 mi Roadside 5 yr

As stated in Chevrolet's press kits for the 2025–2027 model years (4 kits); this model year's own kit states no warranty terms, so the make's are shown. Confirm the term for this car with the dealer.

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Recalls (2)

Source: NHTSA recall database

○minor

Equipment

N252540430

5,861 vehicles 74% reported repaired built Oct 17, 2025 – Dec 8, 2025

Problem General Motors has decided that certain 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV, 2025-2026 Cadillac OPTIQ, Chevrolet Colorado, Equinox EV, GMC Canyon, 2026 Buick Enclave, Envision, Cadillac CT5, Escalade, Escalade ESV, Escalade IQ, Escalade IQL, LYRIQ, VISTIQ, Chevrolet Blazer EV, Corvette Convertible, Corvette Coupe, Corvette Convertible E-Ray, Equinox, Silverado 1500, 2500, 3500, Silverado EV, Suburban 1500, Tahoe, Traverse, GMC Acadia, Hummer EV Pickup, Hummer EV SUV, Sierra 1500, 2500, 3500, Sierra EV, Terrain, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles. The radio may not have been set to the correct status to download the electronic owner's manual during production. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the req Risk Without an owner's manual to consult, owners may not know how to safely use and operate the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury in a crash. Fix Dealers will reset the vehicle radio, which will facilitate automatic download of the electronic owner’s manual, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 16, 2026. Owners may contact GM customer service at 1-866-467-9700, Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020 or Cadillac customer service at 1-800-333-4223. The manufacturer's number for this recall is N252540430. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on February 26,

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Owner letter PDF Remedy instructions PDF

NHTSA campaign 26V114000 reported Feb 26, 2026 General Motors, LLC the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

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Equipment

N252532020

3,408 vehicles 69% reported repaired built Aug 20, 2025 – Oct 8, 2025

Problem General Motors, LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, 2500, and 3500 vehicles. These vehicles may not have received an owner's manual during production. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 225, “Child Restraint Anchorage Systems.” Risk Without an owner's manual to consult, owners may not know how to safely use and operate the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury in a crash. Fix Dealers will provide the owner’s manual, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 30, 2025. Owners may contact Chevrolet customer service at 1-800-222-1020. GM's number for this recall is N252532020. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 25, 2025.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Owner letter PDF

NHTSA campaign 25V815000 reported Nov 25, 2025 General Motors, LLC the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific Silverado 2500HD

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2026 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. Chevrolet publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →Chevrolet’s own VIN lookup →

Hear about a recall before the letter does

The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database

12complaints filed

1 involved a crash · 1 a fire · 1 injuries · 0 deaths reported

1.3 per 10,000 built · Chevrolet reported 90,985 Silverado 2500HD built (its Early Warning production report to NHTSA)

Filed per year: 2026: 12

Most-cited components

Service Brakes 5

Electrical System 3

Power Train 2

Unspecified 2

Steering 2

Engine 2

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

A warning light illuminated as the driver was pulling into a bank parking lot. The vehicle was left running while the driver briefly stepped away to use the ATM. When he returned, he saw smoke coming out of the glove compartment. When the glovebox was opened, an active fire was already burning inside the dash cavity behind it.

Electrical System Oct 19, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11772181

Brand new twenty twenty-six GM diesel. CAN bus dead, no modules communicate. Brakes locked three times while driving. Empty DPF, constant regen, extreme heat, fire risk. Check engine light never comes on. Odometer dropped seven fifty-three miles in dealer records. OnStar dead, shows zero. Twenty-two complaints logged, zero repairs.

Service Brakes Oct 17, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11771773

Two steering issues on the same 2026 Silverado 2500 HD LTZ Trail Boss Z71, 6.6L gas, truck has about 11,000 miles as of 09/29/2026. 1. Mechanical clunk heard and felt through the steering wheel over bumps and when the wheel is at full lock. Assist is still present; the wheel does not spin free.

Steering Sep 29, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11767643

The contact owns a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. While driving 65 MPH, the vehicle lost motive power and the steering wheel seized, and the brakes failed to stop the vehicle. White smoke with a burning odor was coming from the engine compartment. The vehicle was on an incline, which helped the vehicle to decelerate.

Fuel/Propulsion System at 9,100 miles Sep 29, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11767704

The contact owns a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds at night, the low beam and high beam headlights were extremely dim, reducing the roadway visibility while driving during the rain. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer, but the vehicle was not diagnosed.

Exterior Lighting at 700 miles Apr 10, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11730373

The transmission malfunctioned 4 times in the first 3 weeks of ownership. Once on the way home from the dealer, but I could not return as they were closing when I picked up my new 2026 Silverado 2500HD pick up.

Power Train Mar 19, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11725430

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP

Configuration	Overall	Frontal	Side	Rollover	Rollover risk
PU/CC 4WD	not rated	★★★★★	not rated	not rated	—
PU/CC RWD	not rated	★★★★★	not rated	not rated	—

NHTSA New Car Assessment Program. Standard driver-assist: forward collision warning, lane departure warning, automatic emergency braking.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications

Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 179

Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-10-23

Kindsas classified by NHTSA 162 service bulletins, 10 service campaigns, 6 over-the-air updates

Most often about: Unknown Or Other, Electrical System, Engine, Fuel/Propulsion System, Power Train.

N262572131-01 Service campaign
2026-10-23 · Engine
Customer Satisfaction Program. Certain vehicles listed above may have a condition in which the oil galley in the cylinder head was not drilled properly. Dealers are to inspect and if necessary, replace the engine.
PIC6602Y Service bulletin
2026-10-17 · Unknown Or Other
This Preliminary information communicates to dealers steps to follow to obtain an IOK radio.
PIT6110L Service bulletin
2026-10-07 · Unknown Or Other
This Preliminary information communicates an issue with the SES MIL and DTC P062B and engineering is currently investigating.
PIT6457C Service bulletin
2026-09-28 · Unknown Or Other
This preliminary information is for technicians that may see DTCs that are history and should not perform any part replacements. They should follow the notes mentioned prior to anything being replaced.
PIC6540K Service bulletin
2026-09-28 · Unknown Or Other
This Preliminary information communicates to dealers a procedure to reset the radio.
PIT6553 Service bulletin
2026-09-26 · Unknown Or Other
This Preliminary information communicates that Engineering is working on a resolution and no parts should be replaced at this time.
PIT5698F Service bulletin
2026-09-26 · Unknown Or Other
This PI provides Diagnostics tips on how the LIN bus works and how to diagnosis it.
PIT6549 Service bulletin
2026-09-21 · Unknown Or Other
This preliminary information communicates an issue with a service column lock message and DTC U3000. Engineering is working on the issue and in the meantime dealerships are to reset/clear the DTC and perform four sleep cycles to verify the DTC does not return.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

Diagnostic trouble codes on file

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications and complaints

Codes documented against this model year in the federal record. A code appearing here does not mean this vehicle will set it — it means the code is part of this nameplate-year's documented history.

Code	What it means	Most often filed under	Where it appears
P062B P062B on Chevrolet →	Manufacturer-defined — the meaning is set by the automaker, not the standard.	Unknown Or Other	3 bulletins
U3000 U3000 on Chevrolet →	Manufacturer-defined — the meaning is set by the automaker, not the standard.	Unknown Or Other	2 bulletins

Generic codes (the second character is 0 or 2) mean the same thing on every vehicle sold in the United States. Manufacturer-specific codes (1 or 3) mean whatever the automaker assigned, and no honest source can define them for you — which is why the ones here carry the evidence instead of a definition. A code is a link when enough separate federal documents name it across the catalogue to be worth a page of its own; the rest are listed here, where the vehicle is the context that makes them mean something.

Compare the 2026 Silverado 2500HD with

Any vehicle, your weights →

Head-to-head	Verdict
2026 GMC Sierra 2500HD · Pickup truck · grade A	Toss-up
2026 GMC Sierra 3500HD · Pickup truck · grade B	Sierra 3500HD +7.2
2026 Ram 2500 · Pickup truck · grade D	Silverado 2500HD +24.5
2026 Ram 3500 · Pickup truck · grade C	Silverado 2500HD +14.8
2026 Ford F-250 Super Duty · Pickup truck · grade D	F-250 Super Duty +2.2

Silverado 2500HD by model year

all years, side by side →

Year Safety Recalls Complaints

2026 this page A 2 12 2025 A 1 29 2024 C 4 143 2023 A 1 47 2022 D 3 97 Park outside 2021 F 6 88 Park outside 2020 F 10 108 2019 F 7 74 2018 F 5 53 2017 F 5 54 2016 F 6 123

Common questions about the 2026 Silverado 2500HD

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

Does the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 2 recall campaigns for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD. The most serious on file is 26V114000, covering Equipment. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

NHTSA has not published a crash-test rating for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD yet. On the recall record WhichTrim grades it A (94/100), which measures open and severe recalls rather than crash protection.

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

Owners have filed 12 complaints with NHTSA about the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD, most often about service brakes, electrical system, power train. Of those, 1 involved a crash, 1 a fire, 1 reported injuries. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

The manufacturer has filed 179 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD, most often covering unknown or other, electrical system, engine. The most recent is dated 2026-10-23. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Is the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD better than the 2026 GMC Sierra 2500HD?

Too close to call: GMC Sierra 2500HD 98.5 vs Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD 97 with these weights. We publish a full side-by-side of the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD against the 2026 GMC Sierra 2500HD — specifications by family, equipment feature by feature, safety record and ownership costs. You can re-weight what matters to you and the verdict recalculates.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Data	Held	Source	What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations	none	EPA certification records	The EPA does not certify vehicles rated over 8,500 lb GVWR, so heavy-duty nameplates have no entry at all.
Emission certificates	none	EPA emission certificates	The EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls	2	NHTSA recall campaigns	A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints	12	NHTSA complaint database	Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings	2 tested	NHTSA NCAP	Only the configurations NHTSA chose to crash-test, which is never all of them.
Service bulletins	179	NHTSA manufacturer communications	Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations	none	NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation	No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports	none	NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01	No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSA	none	NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns	We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment	10 trims	Manufacturer press kit	Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD

Trims & pricing

Specs & fuel economy

New-vehicle warranty

The cheapest ownership win

Recalls (2)

Equipment

Equipment

Whether any of this applies to one specific Silverado 2500HD

Hear about a recall before the letter does

Parts & accessories for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD

Owner complaints

Most-cited components

In owners' own words

Crash ratings

Service bulletins & campaigns

Diagnostic trouble codes on file

Compare the 2026 Silverado 2500HD with

Silverado 2500HD by model year

Common questions about the 2026 Silverado 2500HD

Does the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD have any recalls?

How safe is the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD?

Is the 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD better than the 2026 GMC Sierra 2500HD?

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Where to go next

Sources & method