Other powertrain problem on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
1 crash 1 of the 11 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 report other powertrain problem at a median of 35,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 400 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 11th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 200 miles at the tenth percentile to 105,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 106,631 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
56% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 169 miles | 400 miles | 33,000 miles | 80,000 miles | 106,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 30 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2024, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 183; the 2011 has 11. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
On 2/23/11 I purchased a 2011 chevrolet silverado 1500 and drove 40 miles home when I activated onstar 2/24/11 I was informed the vehicle had a dangerous rear axle condition and not to drive the vehicle.why is national highway allowing general motors to sell a vehicle having this defect to a customer without repairing the vehicle before the sale or delivery. If anyone is hurt the liability will go to general motors but also to national highway for allowing this to happen. I will make a effort to notify the media to inform them of this dangerous practice gm recall #10426 please stop this now before anyone is hurt. *tr
Just seconds after having come to a complete stop, the transmission shifts while rpms increase causing the vehicle to overcome the brake pressure and truck to move forward abruptly. This caused me to roll out into the lane of oncoming traffic and strike a vehicle as it was passing. *tr
I purchased vehicle use, with 384 miles. Vehicle transmission became very loud, whining, growling, making clunking noise when shifting; downshifting at times produced runaway shifting, clunking and slipping. Took it to one chev. Dealer and service writer said he had a chev p.u. Just like mine and it didn't make those noises. Went back again and dealer found a service bulletin that applied to my transmission. They ordered parts, installed them, but no change. Went back again and the service shop and they said there was nothing wrong with the transmission and there was nothing more they could do for my p.u. I went to another dealer and they said it needed front and rear planetary gears. Parts were ordered and installed, again no change. Went back to the dealer and they drove my p.u. The service manager said there was nothing wrong with my p.u. ! I spoke with a district specialist at g.m. And she said she would contact the dealership! It is now june 5, 2012 and I again called gm customer assistance and they said the woman who had my case no longer works in that department and they would assign another specialist. She/he would call me…
Also reported on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
Airbag inflator rupture
Other body or interior problem
Other engine problem
Instrument cluster or gauge failure
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Rust or structural corrosion
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 11 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 400 miles and a quarter after 80,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 1500?
11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
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