21V051000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
2012 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500
2 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 278 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns2
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations21 open
Owner complaints278
Complaints citing a crash8
Complaints citing a fire2
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 2 of 2
21V054000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 73UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 58AIR BAGS
- 28STRUCTURE:BODY
- 25ENGINE
- 20ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 10ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)
- 10POWER TRAIN
- 9SUSPENSION
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2012 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.