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Brakes · 3 owner reports

Loss of braking on the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

Only 0 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 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $400–$3,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 17th

When loss of braking gets reported

There are 3 reports of loss of braking on the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 17th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $400–$3,000 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 12 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 115,000 miles.

By volume the 2003 carries the most reports, with 78; the 2015 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. 1996 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1998 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 43k
  4. 1999 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 100k
  5. 2000 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 115k
  6. 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 99k
  7. 2002 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 81k
  8. 2003 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 93k
  9. 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 91k
  10. 2005 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 100k
  11. 2006 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 45k
  12. 2007 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 67k
  13. 2008 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 4k
  14. 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 16k
  15. 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 117k
  16. 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 13k
  17. 2015 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  18. 2016 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 52k
  19. 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 84k
  20. 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking 11k
  21. 2020 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  22. 2021 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  23. 2022 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  24. 2023 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2024 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 loss of braking
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2015 Chevrolet Silverado 2500

Other electrical problem

43 reports median 2k

Other brake problem

33 reports median 253

Other engine problem

11 reports median 79k

Other steering problem

11 reports median 53k

Fuel pump failure

9 reports median 190k

Other fuel system problem

9 reports median 71k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 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 3 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.

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