Other wheel or tire problem on the 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
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 wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 40,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 65,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 30,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 100,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 71,066 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
44% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30,150 miles | 32,777 miles | 40,600 miles | 66,000 miles | 101,216 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 $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 carries the most reports, with 11; the 2002 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.
Blowout of bridgestone dueller at 693, lt285/75r/16, DOT no.ejlfccb2501 causing loss of vehicle control and $4,000.00 damage to truck. Near total loss of vehicle control causing vehicle to leave roadway.*ak *mr
I drove my truck under normal driving conditions; primarily commuting to and from work (highway miles). At ~ 66,000 miles, front left hub assembly started making intermittent noise and noticeable vibration in steering wheel. The hub/tire/wheel assembly had noticeable amount of play when I inspected it during a recent tire changeout. Ultimately, the hub assembly internals failed and the lubrication escaped from the seal. It is my opinion that if left unchecked, the hub could lose all lubrication and either freeze up, fall apart or catch fire. It is not normal for a hub to fail after only 68,000 miles. Dealer confirms this by telling me that they've not seen many if any 3/4 ton trucks come through with this type of problem. I suspect that the part was defective from the manufacturer, but cannot prove this. I would be happy to let the NHTSA take it apart and inspect it and hear of their conclusion. I am already out the $400+ dollars to fix this problem. Chevrolet customer "dis-service" would not admit to any responsibility when I offered to meet them "half-way" and pay for the labor if they would pay for the part. If the NHTSA would…
Steel belted radial tire firestone steel tx radial a/t lt245/75r16 separated at highway speed of 65 MPH. Driver maintained control of vehicle but truck wheel well and bumper and body of truck are damaged. Driver recovered steel belt fragments from freeway and tire is available. Firestone has requested we send tire to them. Five new tires will be purchased to avoid additional incidents. *jb
Also reported on the 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500
Loss of braking
Brake line, hose or caliper failure
Other brake problem
ABS module or sensor failure
Other engine problem
Engine sensor 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 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 40,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 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 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?
11 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 3.4 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