2025 Chevrolet Colorado: what breaks, and at what mileage
What breaks on the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado
On the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado, the failure owners report most often is complete transmission failure, with 5 reports on file. Across every failure mode on this year, half the dated reports were filed before 45,000 miles. Overall it scores 76 out of 100, severe risk for a 2025.
Severe risk for a 2025 — 29th riskiest of the 177 2025 vehicles we can rate. 47 owner reports; fleet size estimated from this year's own recall paperwork.
What breaks on the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado
Owners have reported 24 named failure modes on the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado, and the three most-reported carry 30% of everything filed, which is an unusually even spread for one model year.
Complete transmission failure leads with 5 reports and about 49 per 1,000 vehicles.
Other electrical problem follows with 5 reports, median 10,000 miles.
Master cylinder or brake booster failure follows with 4 reports.
By system, the reports fall mostly into electrical (6), brakes (6) and transmission (5).
The mileage the reports cluster at
Too few of the reports on this year carry an odometer reading to describe the timing: 6 of them do. The mileages quoted elsewhere on this page come from the modes that have enough of them.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
Showing the 12 most-reported failure modes of 24. The full list is in the table below.
How reports accumulate
Every report with an odometer reading, cumulative, from 0 to 200,000 miles. A curve that climbs early is a car with early problems, whatever its total.
- Line share of reports filed by that mileage
What happens when these parts fail
Across the named modes, 3 mention a crash and 1 an injury. Those are the words owners used in their own complaints, and NHTSA does not verify them, but they are the closest thing in this data to a measure of what a failure actually did.
The average severity weight across every report on this year is 4.23, where a stalled engine or a failed airbag weighs many times more than a rattling trim panel, and a figure this high means the reports are dominated by failures with safety consequences rather than annoyances. The weighting is set out in full on the methodology page.
What the top failures cost to put right, as editorial estimates for an independent US shop rather than figures from NHTSA: complete transmission failure at $2,800–$8,000, other electrical problem at $250–$2,000, master cylinder or brake booster failure at $450–$2,200 and other body or interior problem at $200–$2,000. Dealer labour, a seized bolt or a part that is no longer made can push any of these past the top of its range.
21% of the reports on this year sit in the engine, transmission, drivetrain or cooling systems — the four where a repair bill is usually four figures.
Every reported failure mode
| Failure mode | System | Reports | With reading | 25th | Median | 75th | Per 1,000 | Typical repair | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete transmission failure | transmission | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | 49.0 | $2,800–$8,000 | Critical |
| Other electrical problem | electrical | 5 | 1 | — | 8k | — | 49.0 | $250–$2,000 | Moderate |
| Master cylinder or brake booster failure | brakes | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 39.2 | $450–$2,200 | Critical |
| Other body or interior problem | body | 4 | 2 | — | 54k | — | 39.2 | $200–$2,000 | Moderate |
| Infotainment screen failure | infotainment | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 19.6 | $400–$2,600 | Low |
| Cruise control failure | adas | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 19.6 | $200–$1,400 | High |
| Other engine problem | engine | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 19.6 | $300–$4,000 | High |
| Other fuel system problem | fuel | 2 | 1 | — | 85k | — | 19.6 | $300–$2,200 | High |
| Other steering problem | steering | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 19.6 | $350–$2,400 | High |
| Other visibility problem | glass | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 19.6 | $150–$1,400 | Moderate |
| Head gasket failure | engine | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $1,400–$4,000 | Critical |
| Water pump failure | cooling | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $500–$2,200 | High |
| CV axle or driveshaft failure | drivetrain | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $450–$2,200 | High |
| Fuel pump failure | fuel | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $600–$2,600 | High |
| Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure | electrical | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $700–$3,000 | High |
| Instrument cluster or gauge failure | infotainment | 1 | 1 | — | 396 | — | 9.8 | $350–$1,400 | Moderate |
| Loss of braking | brakes | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $400–$3,000 | Critical |
| Seat belt or retractor failure | airbag | 1 | 1 | — | 75k | — | 9.8 | $200–$900 | High |
| Lane keep or steering assist fault | adas | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $200–$1,600 | High |
| Strut, shock or spring failure | suspension | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $500–$2,000 | Moderate |
| Software fault or failed update | software | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $0–$600 | Moderate |
| Other brake problem | brakes | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $300–$1,800 | High |
| Other suspension problem | suspension | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $350–$2,000 | Moderate |
| Other driver assistance problem | adas | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 9.8 | $250–$1,800 | High |
| Unclassified problem | other | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 29.4 | — | Moderate |
Rate per 1,000 uses a fleet-size estimate derived from recall paperwork for this exact model year. It is a lower bound. Repair costs are typical independent-shop ranges for the failure, not figures from these reports.
How often, against how many were built
Scaled by an estimate of how many of these cars exist, the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado draws about 461 per 1,000 vehicles, which puts it in the 98th percentile of complaint rates among 2025 vehicles we can rate.
That denominator is the weakest number on the page and it is fair to say so plainly. Rate per 1,000 uses a fleet-size estimate derived from recall paperwork for this exact model year. It is a lower bound.
The working figure is 102 vehicles. If the true number is twice that, every rate on this page is half what it says; the ranking against other 2025 vehicles, which is what the risk score uses, is far more robust than the rate itself.
Recalls on the 2025 model year
NHTSA has issued 1 recall campaign covering the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado, affecting an estimated 102 vehicles. A recall is a different kind of evidence from a complaint: it is the regulator and the manufacturer agreeing that something has to be fixed, and the fix is free for as long as the car exists.
The campaigns cover equipment:other:owners/service/other manual. Whether the work was actually done on the car in front of you is a question only the VIN can answer, and the manufacturer or NHTSA will answer it free.
One caution about reading these together: a recall usually raises the complaint count for the same part, because owners who read about it go and file. The mileages stay informative; the counts get noisy.
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How it ranks in the 2025 field
The score at the top of the page, placed among its peers. The zones are the same thresholds the scorer applies, read out of the scorer itself, so the picture and the band word cannot disagree.
Scores are ranked within the model year, never across years, because an older car has had longer to accumulate reports.
- Left fewer and less serious reports
- Right more, or worse
- Marker this vehicle
Where 2025 sits in the model line
Severe risk for a 2025 — 29th riskiest of the 177 2025 vehicles we can rate. Every score on this site is a rank inside its own model year, which is what makes a 2004 and a 2019 comparable at all.
Across the 21 model years of this car that carry enough reports to score, 2010 comes out best at 65 and 2019 worst at 82, with 2025 itself at 76.
If the model year is negotiable, 2010, 2004, 2011, 2006, 2009, 2005, 2012, 2007 and 2008 score lower than 2025 by a margin worth acting on. Same body, same engines, different luck — usually a supplier change or a mid-cycle fix, which the complaint data can show but never explain.
Within the 2023–2026 generation specifically, 2026 is the strongest year at 74 and 2024 the weakest at 82.
Scores compare each year against other cars of the same model year, so a low number on an older car is a real result and not an artefact of age.
Shorter is better. Years with too few reports to score are shown without a bar rather than as a zero, because no data is not good news.
Within the 2023-2026 generation, 2026 Chevrolet Colorado scores best at 74 and 2024 Chevrolet Colorado worst at 82.
What this page cannot tell you
47 owner reports; fleet size estimated from this year's own recall paperwork. Every count on this page is therefore a floor: it is the number of owners who went to the trouble of filing with a federal agency, which is a small and self-selected fraction of the owners who had the fault.
Of those 47 reports, 6 carried an odometer reading, so the mileages here describe 13% of the sample rather than all of it. Owners also round: readings pile up on multiples of ten thousand, which is why this site publishes "about 90,000 miles" and not "91,438".
The failure modes are assigned by software reading the owner's own words, which is accurate in bulk and wrong in individual cases. A mode with a handful of reports may contain a misfiled one.
And nothing here predicts what one car will do. These are other people's complaints, filed years apart, on cars maintained by strangers. Read the page as a map of where this model year has previously gone wrong, then have the specific car in front of you inspected.
Questions this page answers
What are the most common problems with the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado?
The most-reported failures are complete transmission failure (5 reports), other electrical problem (5 reports, median 10,000 miles) and master cylinder or brake booster failure (4 reports). Counts come from owner complaints filed with NHTSA, which are voluntary, so they show what owners bothered to report rather than every fault that occurred.
Is the 2025 Chevrolet Colorado reliable?
It scores 76 out of 100 on our risk index, which is severe — 29th riskiest of the 177 2025 vehicles we can rate. The score is a comparison against other 2025 vehicles, not a prediction about any individual car, and it is built from complaint rates, severity and how early failures appear.
Which year of the Chevrolet Colorado is best?
Within the 2023–2026 generation, 2026 scores best at 74 out of 100 and 2024 worst at 82. Same body, same engines, different luck.
Where this comes from. Every figure above is computed from NHTSA owner complaints and recall records for this exact make, model and year. Complaints are voluntary and self-selected, so treat counts as a floor. The methodology page writes out each formula, and the same numbers are available as JSON.
What breaks at my mileage Compare with another car
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed