Other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 11th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 25,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 100,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 76,687 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.
50% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24,600 miles | 27,996 miles | 43,372 miles | 65,006 miles | 101,287 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
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 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 12 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2011, at a median of 1,800 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 160,000 miles.
By volume the 2001 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Experienced tire belt separation and blow out while traveling. The tire failed without warning causing damage to the vehicle of $2200.00 and required replacement of the tire. The tire had 27000 miles of use at the time of the failure. The tire involved was firestone steeltex radial, load range e - m/s #08426 lt245/75r16 120/116r, da432t d20d DOT vnii bic 5000, made in canada 31055 ur bmd5326-2. *la
Our 2001 chevrolet silverado 2500hd truck, which is still under warranty, was presented to firestone on saturday april 10, 2004 at 10am to show them excessive cracks surrounding sidewalls consistently on all four original tires. They gave us a report of the tread wear on the bottoms which was not the concern we had and offered us a pro-rated rate of 45% off of the manufactures suggested retail which would come to $489 with costs. We explained that the tires were dry rotting and dave, the service manager at the greensburg, pa firestone tire & service center explained that cliff from firestone's engineering dept, the regional manager had told him that there are three stages of dry rot and if the tires were dry rot you would be able to fit a penny into the cracks. This is where we left off as of today and will be communicating further with them.
While driving my 2001 chevrolet 2500 hd crew cab 4x4 south on us 59 in houston texas the tread fully separated off the right rear firestone steeltex a/t 245/75r16, load range e, DOT no.vn11bac5300 at approximately 10:30 on april 21, 2004. Just prior to separation, truck started vibrating (speed was approximately 65 MPH). The vibration then became violent followed by loud noises. At this time I noticed large chunks of rubber flying all over the highway, followed by what appeared to be the entire tread. The entire event only lasted seconds. I pulled over as soon as possible finding the tire still fully inflated, but missing the entire tread. There were no injuries, but damage has been estimated at $4018.38. I have rotated my tires on regular basis and maintained chevrolets recommended pressures. I can prove the tire that lost it's tread had been at 80 psi from december 2003 to days prior to the separation. I filed a claim with bridgestone/firestone north american tire, llc and paid to ship the tire to them. Their response dated 5/5/2004, claim ref. No. [xxx] was "we have carefully inspected your tire. We did observe signs that the…
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Other engine problem
Loss of braking
ABS module or sensor failure
Brake line, hose or caliper failure
Other brake problem
CV axle or driveshaft failure
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 wheel or tire problem happen on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 30,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 38 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