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Other electrical problem on the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

Only 2 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 2
With an odometer reading 2
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 50%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 6th

When other electrical problem gets reported

There are 2 reports of other electrical problem on the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, 2 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 2 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 32,000 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 $250–$2,000 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 23 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 300 miles, and latest on the 2014 at 100,000 miles.

By volume the 2015 carries the most reports, with 43; the 2010 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 150k
  2. 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 79k
  3. 1999 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 193k
  4. 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 64k
  6. 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 41k
  7. 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 92k
  8. 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 78k
  9. 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 74k
  10. 2006 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 71k
  11. 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 30k
  12. 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 66k
  13. 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 48k
  14. 2010 (this one) 32k
  15. 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 62k
  16. 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 23k
  17. 2013 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 50k
  18. 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 99k
  19. 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 2k
  20. 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 65k
  21. 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 20k
  22. 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 4k
  23. 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 60k
  24. 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 36k
  25. 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 261
  26. 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 84k
  28. 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem 2k
  29. 2025 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

Check engine warning light came on then immediately lost all engine power completely stalled), electrical (except headlights), power steering, power brakes. Engine would not restart after vehicle stopped (went into walk home mode), not even the horn would work! After about 20 minutes, the engine would restart and I could drive home, but with the check engine light on. I took the truck to the dealership the next day. The reprogrammed the main computer. After a few days, it happened again! Took the truck back to the dealer. They said they would need to order a new computer, they reprogrammed the defective computer again and said they would call when the new one was in. The same condition repeated itself a few more times before the new computer came in and they replaced it. No problems since. I consider loosing all power in a turn onto an interstate rather dangerous! The dealership confided my experience was not at all unusual with these vehicles.

38,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1185108 filed 2015-05-24

I have a 2010 chevy 2500 hd when I put the car I park it sounds like the doors unlock but they don't it started on my drivers door now its happening on passenger door. I've tried to unlock manually it wont work I've unlocking from the remote and the door lock switches on both doors it takes multiple times with both and then able to get out. This is a major safety issue !!!!. I only have 27000 miles on it now and its out of warranty I tried to get into my truck with remote and key it took multiple times to get into also... I have a friend with a 2010 denali he's having the same problems I could see if the truck was over tens years old and over 150000 miles having problems but this isn't right... I take my grand kids all the time I'm scared to take them in case I have to get them out in an emergency and needed to get out fast that I wouldn't be able too or for that matter just myself driving alone!!! *tr

26,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1088321 filed 2014-07-20

Also reported on the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

Airbag inflator rupture

5 reports median 110k

Other body or interior problem

5 reports median 26k

Rust or structural corrosion

2 reports median 163k

Other engine problem

2 reports median 74k

Other powertrain problem

2 reports median 82k

Wheel bearing or hub failure

1 reports median 115k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 2 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 electrical problem happen on the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?

Across 2 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other electrical problem on the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado 2500?

2 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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