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CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2009 Silverado has no defect trends, which is a very good sign now that it's more than a few years old.

A couple model years back, the 2007 Silverado has an oil consumption defect at low mileage (~50k miles) — so far there's only a very few reports of the same problem with the 2009 Silverado.

The 2009 Silverado received poor side impact ratings on models not equipped with the optional side air bags.

5.6

fairly significant
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
16,000 miles

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2009 Chevrolet Silverado wheels / hubs problems

wheels / hubs problem

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2009 Chevrolet Silverado Owner Comments

problem #1

Mar 212012

Silverado 8-cyl

  • 16,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

The american general 245/70/17 tires on 2009 wore out down to the tires wear bars 2/32 at 16,000miles there was heavy edge wear chuncking pieces of tread. Tire were rotated every 5000 and alignment checked. Took to local Chevy dealer and they found a recall or technical service bulletin from american tire and all four tires were replaced free of charge. However they were replaced with american General Grabber H/T which also have to soft of a rubber compound and are wearing out quickly the truck has 26150 miles on it now and the new tires are down to 7/32 with less than 10000 miles on them. Start putting Bridgestone tires back on the trucks Chevrolet.

- Virginia Beach, VA, USA

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