2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 known problems

Shopping for a new truck? Check out the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 known problems before you choose this one.

As one of the most popular trucks on the market, the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500, got refreshed for this model year with the big-change items being a new interior layout, new LZ0 3.0-liter Duramax diesel engine, ZR2 Bison and some exterior changes.

For the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 known problems list, we reference CarComplaints.com, NHTSA.gov and ConsumerReports.org. We’ll also chime in with our experience of owning a 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 for a year.

Major 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 known problems

Kicking off the list with the major problems, they are mainly electrical systems issues. The key culprit is problems with the infotainment system resetting or not working correctly according to NHTSA.gov. This seems to align with the issues people had with the new 2023 Chevy Colorado.

ConsumerReports.org agrees with this and says the in-car electronics are the key concern it has about the truck, giving it a sub-par reliability score overall.

The maddening part of this concern is that cell phones are updated more often than in-car infotainment systems. Meaning one day your cell phone might work as intended, then the next day it won’t.

We’ve seen this complaint time and time again on various social media platforms.

What about engines and transmissions?

The 2023 Silverado 1500 comes with four different engine options: 2.7-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, 3.0-liter Duramax diesel, 5.3-liter V-8 and 6.2-liter V-8.

With four engine options, it makes things very difficult to clarify exactly what engine is having an issue, since the reports aren’t broken down that far.

For example, Consumer Reports considers the engine category to have slightly above average reliability. However, this is often based on past experiences like the bad batch of lifters that caused major engine repairs.

Also, the outgoing 3.0-liter Duramax diesel, aka LM2 engine, had a long crank, no start concern. The new LZ0 engine doesn’t have this complaint.

Many people have concerns about turbocharged engine reliability, so you might be wondering about that as well. General Motors lengthened the warranty on both the Silverado and GMC Sierra for that engine to calm fears. and we haven’t heard of any or read of any turbos blowing up. Granted the 2019 model was the first year for the “TurboMax,” and we don’t have trucks with hundreds of thousands of miles yet. But we haven’t heard anything.

The Silverado transmission has been a source of frustration and class-action lawsuits, and the complaints largely center around the outgoing 8-speed, which has been replaced with a new 10-speed transmission.

NHTSA.gov lists only one complaint on the 10-speed transmission. Considering Chevrolet Silverado 1500 sales totaled 543,319 trucks last year with the majority being 2023 models, We’d say that’s pretty good.

ConsumerReports agrees with these findings, stating the 2023 models have above average transmission reliability.

This is interesting since ConsumerReports said the Chevy Silverado 1500 was the least reliable truck on the market just a few years back.

What else?

Sifting through the data, there really aren’t that many other issues that have cropped up to merit making it on this list. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

For example, the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 3.0-liter Duramax diesel I owned for a year had a weird issue where the fan would run on high all day if you plugged in the block heater at anything warmer than 0 degrees.

Then, there’s the random issue of a turn signal going out or a fluid leak causing a large repair.

The reality is the odds are something is going to happen when you build and sell more than a half million trucks a year.

The bottom line

Is the 2023 Chevy Silverado 1500 the most reliable truck on the market? That’s a hard thing to say. There’s always going to be a problem or a lemon truck. The odds are against that happening, however, and the data does show it has been a reliable truck for the past few years.