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2001 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 exterior lighting problems

12 owner complaints filed with NHTSA name the exterior lighting on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado 15003% of all complaints for this model year.

12
Exterior Lighting complaints
3%
share of all complaints
median reported incident mileage
2 / 0
crash / fire reports

What owners report

  • I've had multiple extremely dangerous situation with this vehicle over 2 years. One of the first concern was my headlight daytime bulbs melted to the harness and the one on the passenger side melted thru the number so I started carrying a fire extinguisher behind the driver seat. But one of the…

    filed Jul 28, 2019

  • I bought this silverado nov. 2000, within the first year I had replaced my left front day time running light. To date I have replace this same left front daytime running light no less than 9 times. My wife has a suburban and it is a 2009 and we have replaced the left front daytime running light…

    filed Dec 31, 2013

Verbatim excerpts from complaints filed with NHTSA. Reports are not independently verified.

Counts are unique NHTSA complaints naming this component group. Complaints are unverified owner reports; mileage is computed only from complaints that included a usable odometer reading.