2014 Chevrolet Silverado 15003rd gen (2014–2018), first year

Updated 2026-08-31NHTSA counts read on this date — 1558 complaints. They rise over time.

463 Steering Complaints on the 2014 Silverado. 200 of Them Say the Truck Shut Off Too.

The 2014 Silverado is the first year of the third-generation truck, and steering is the largest thing in its complaint record.

That is not the interesting part. The interesting part is what the filings describe alongside it: the truck dies. 200 of the 463 steering filings say the engine shut off in the same event, usually while turning at low speed, usually with the dash lights or the radio going out first.

Owners have filed 1,558 complaints with NHTSA about the 2014 model year. Chevrolet sold 480,414 Silverados in calendar 2013 and 529,755 in 2014 — that figure covers the whole Silverado line and this page is the 1500 — and the 2014 model year sold across both years, so the denominator is in the hundreds of thousands. That is not a rate. 1,558 filings are not 1,558 owners, and the count earns its keep only because the other years in this series are counted the same way.

The basics

New body, new frame, new engines for 2014. Three of them, all with a six-speed automatic: a 4.3-liter V6, a 5.3-liter V8, and a 6.2-liter V8. Cab choices are regular, double and crew.

Which cab a truck has turns out to matter for one section below, in a way the engine does not.

Specs

Displacement and cylinder count are from NHTSA’s vPIC catalog, which holds what the manufacturer submitted. Fuel economy is EPA.

What owners filed

Sections below are sorted by count and each complaint is counted once. They add up to 1,284. The remaining 274 are spread thin — NHTSA tagged 121 of them unknown or other, 36 seat belts, 23 seats, and 21 visibility.

Configuration comes from decoding the VIN attached to each filing. 1,483 of the 1,558 decode. The engine split is lopsided — 84.6 percent of the ones that name a displacement are the 5.3L V8 — so it separates almost nothing. Cab does better: 1,418 come back as a crew or extended cab, 67.3 percent crew and 32.7 percent extended, and one section leans hard against that. Regular cabs and filings whose VIN gives no cab sit outside every cab percentage below.

This is not a failure rate by configuration. Nothing here divides failures by how many of each cab or engine GM built, because the complaint record does not contain that. It compares a section’s split against the split of the whole record.

Steering — 463

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged steering, plus those that name the power steering, the steering assist or StabiliTrak.

Thirty percent of everything filed on this truck, and the filings describe one event rather than a steering fault on its own.

200 of the 463 also say the truck shut off. 224 place it at low speed, turning, reversing or in a parking lot. 92 say the dash lights, headlights or radio went out or flickered in the same moment.

From ODI 11384343:

“AT LOW SPEEDS ESPECIALLY WHEN TURNING, A SUDDEN LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL HAPPENS. IT BECOMES REALLY HARD TO TURN THE VEHICLE. THEN A FEW DIFFERENT MESSAGES POP UP “STABILITRAK” AND “PARKING ASSIST IS OF” AND SOMETIMES THE TRUCK COMPLETELY TURNS OFF WHILE I’M DRIVING AND NO MATTER WHERE I AM I HAVE TO PUT IT IN PARK AND TURN THE TRUCK BACK ON. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME ABOUT 7 TIMES IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS.”

From ODI 11714236:

“When driving in traffic about 10 mph engine shuts down and power steering goes out. . When I slow to turn, the engine shuts down sometimes and the power steering goes out. No warnings. I’m afraid to drive it. I almost hit a lady while turning in a parking lot because the steering went out and it died.”

60 filings name StabiliTrak. 84 use “lost” or “loss of” with steering. 72 mention a crash, being hit, or nearly being hit.

Four recalls on this model year touch pieces of that description, and no single one of them covers all of it. They are below.

Brakes — 263

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged service brakes, plus those that name the vacuum pump, the brake booster or brake assist.

Of the 243 filings here that give a cab, 82.3 percent are crew cabs, against 67.3 percent of the record. That is fifteen points, and it holds when NHTSA’s labels are taken out of it. Counted from the filing text alone, across the whole record: filings naming the vacuum pump or booster run 82.3 percent crew, filings describing a pedal that went hard or stiff run 84.2 percent, and filings saying the truck would not stop run 82.8 percent.

Four separate predicates, all landing fifteen to seventeen points above the baseline. What the record does not say is why.

Transmission — 179

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged power train, plus those that name the transmission, a shudder or the torque converter.

Engine — 129

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged engine, plus those that name a lifter, cylinder deactivation or a misfire.

This section leans the other way from the brakes — 58.5 percent crew against the 67.3 percent baseline.

Electrical — 106

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged electrical system.

Read next to the steering section rather than on its own. Many of the filings above are tagged electrical as a second component.

Body and structure — 83

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged structure.

Air bags — 37

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged air bags.

Suspension — 24

Counted as filings NHTSA tagged suspension.

The rest is thin

274 filings. The largest groups are 121 that NHTSA tagged unknown or other, 36 seat belts, and 23 seats.

Recalls

Look this truck up carefully. NHTSA holds this model year under two model names and they return different lists. Searching “Silverado 1500” returns six campaigns; searching “Silverado” returns fourteen, and not one appears on both. Merging them and dropping the ones whose text covers only the HD trucks leaves eighteen campaigns on this model year. The 2015 truck has eighteen too; no other year in this generation reaches fourteen. A VIN lookup at nhtsa.gov/recalls is the only version of the question that matters for a specific truck, but a model-name search can show you a third of the picture.

Four of the eighteen touch the steering-and-stall description above, and each covers a different slice of production.

17V414000 — reported June 2017 and 2014-only, covering Silverado 1500 and Sierra 1500. GM’s summary says the vehicles “may have a temporary loss of electric power steering (EPS) assist, especially during low-speed turning maneuvers,” and that “if EPS assist is lost and then returns, the driver might lose temporary control of the steering wheel.” The remedy is an EPS module software update. 35 filings name it.

That campaign describes the steering half of what owners report. It does not mention the engine.

15V640000 — the ignition lock housing, and it does. It covers trucks built January 24 through February 26, 2014 — five weeks of production. GM’s stated consequence:

“If stuck in the “Start” position, the ignition may suddenly snap back into the “Accessory” position, causing a loss of engine, steering, and braking power, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.”

Engine, steering and braking together. Dealers replace the housing.

14V246000 — the inner tie rod, covering Silverados built May 23, 2013 through March 25, 2014. An improperly tightened attachment “may allow the tie rod to separate from the steering rack, resulting in a loss of steering.” Dealers inspect and replace the steering gear as necessary. Nine filings name it, several from owners told their truck was not on the list.

19V761000 — reported October 2019 and conditioned three ways: a 5.3-liter engine, a 3.08-ratio rear axle, and four-wheel drive. If a wheel-speed sensor fails between 41 and 60 mph, the brake module may brake one wheel on its own, “causing the vehicle to pull to one side unexpectedly.” Remedy is a module reprogram.

Two more matter for what they do rather than for how often owners name them.

19V645000 — the brake vacuum pump, covering 2014–2018 Silverado and Sierra. “The amount of vacuum created by the vacuum pump may decrease over time,” and as it drops, braking effort rises and stopping distance grows. The remedy is a reprogram of the Electronic Brake Control Module rather than a new pump.

14V152000 — the transmission oil cooler line. If the line is not seated and transmission oil reaches a hot surface, GM’s stated consequence is a vehicle fire. Dealers inspect the connection.

The other twelve

Seven of the twelve are restraints that may not work in a crash — two air bag campaigns, two seat belt campaigns, a seat, a head restraint, and a second air bag inflator. Two are a fire and a rollaway.

41 filings across this model year say the owner’s VIN was not included in a recall they had read about. Counted as filings where “VIN” and a phrase like “was not included” — or covered, or listed, or on the recall list — fall in the same sentence.

What doesn’t show up in the complaints

NHTSA gives the 2014 Silverado 1500 five stars overall, five for the driver in the frontal test, five on side impact and four on rollover with a 17.4 percent probability. Crew cab, extended cab and regular cab all score the same in four-wheel drive.

Nothing in the complaint record says the crash performance is a problem. Air bags are 54 filings in NHTSA’s grouping and seat belts 40, and the campaigns that touch them are inflator and belt recalls that reach many GM vehicles rather than this one.

The 4.3-liter V6 is the fuel economy leader at 18/23/20 in two-wheel drive, two combined miles per gallon ahead of the 5.3-liter.

What the complaint curve says

2014  103     2018  223     2022   93
2015  100     2019  226     2023   78
2016   95     2020  174     2024   68
2017  189     2021  118     2025   62

The peak is 2019, five years in, and 2017 through 2020 hold the four highest years. The steering recall was announced in June 2017 and the two brake recalls in September and October 2019.

A complaint count going up can mean a letter arrived rather than that a truck got worse. Both of those years are among the four highest on this page, and 2017 is where the curve steps up and stays.

Complaint databases collect complaints. Nobody files to say the steering held. Rates are not comparable across models without running the same arithmetic on each. What this data supports is the ranking inside this truck and the cab split inside one section of it.

What the death field holds

Three filings on this model year report a death, four in total across them. Reading all three: one describes a driver who “lost control of his vehicle for no apparent reason,” one is a head-on collision in which the other vehicle “was drifting in and out of the on-coming travel lanes,” and one says only that a death occurred and that the recalls were issued after that date.

None of the three attributes the crash to a defect, and the record does not contain enough to say more. The field counts deaths reported in a filing, not deaths a defect caused. The same caution applies to the 75 filings flagged as a crash and the 41 injuries.

If you’re looking at one

Ordered by what it costs you if it goes wrong, not by how many people filed.

Run the VIN and read the build date on the door jamb. Four recalls on this truck touch the steering-and-stall description, and three of them cover build windows rather than the whole model year — the ignition housing campaign is five weeks of production. Which ones apply is a question about that truck, not about 2014 Silverados.

Drive it at low speed and turn the wheel lock to lock, several times, and watch the dash. 224 filings put the failure at low speed while turning. What owners describe is the assist going away, a StabiliTrak message, and sometimes the truck dying. A clean test drive does not clear it — many filings say a dealer could not reproduce it — but a truck that does it once on the lot has told you something.

Press the brake pedal hard while stopped, then again after a few miles. 263 filings are brakes, and the vacuum pump campaign is a software reprogram rather than a new pump. Ask whether 19V645000 was completed and what the dealer actually did.

If it is a 5.3L with four-wheel drive, ask about 19V761000. That one also needs a 3.08 rear axle — an option code rather than anything you can see, so a dealer has to read it off the VIN. The campaign describes the truck braking one wheel on its own between 41 and 60 mph.

Ask whether the transmission oil cooler line was inspected. 14V152000 is the fire one, and the inspection is quick.

Numbers worth writing down

The 2015 truck is next, and brakes take the top spot with 373 filings.

Sources

• NHTSA complaint database — 1,558 complaints for the 2014 Silverado 1500, quoted above by ODI number
• NHTSA recall API — eighteen campaigns, merged from the “Silverado 1500” and “Silverado” model names, quoted from the campaign summaries and remedy text
• NHTSA vPIC — engine, cab and drive type, decoded from the VIN attached to each filing
• NHTSA safety ratings — 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, crew, extended and regular cab
• EPA fuel economy — city / highway / combined
• GoodCarBadCar Chevrolet Silverado sales figures

Complaint counts and quotes come from NHTSA’s public database, retrieved 2026-08-31; each quote lists its ODI number so you can look it up. Configuration comes from decoding the VIN attached to each filing — 1,483 of the 1,558 decode. Recall applicability depends on the VIN — check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls. This summarizes what owners reported. It isn’t buying or repair advice.