2005 Chevrolet W4500

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train › driveline › driveshaft. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Visibility › Defroster/Defogger/Hvac System › Fan/Motor	1		0	0	0
Power Train › Driveline › Driveshaft	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Visibility › Defroster/Defogger/Hvac System › Fan/Motor

Filed Jul 14, 2011177,000 milesCA

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2005 CHEVROLET W4500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 15 MPH WITH THE HEATER IN OPERATION, HE BEGAN TO SMELL A BURNING ODOR AND NOTICED SMOKE EMITTING FROM THE DASHBOARD AND AIR VENTS. THE VEHICLE WAS MANEUVERED TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. THE CONTACT WAS UNABLE TO DETECT A PROBLEM UNDERNEATH THE HOOD AREA AND RESUMED DRIVING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN AUTHORIZED DEALER, WHERE THEY STATED THAT THERE WAS A SHORTAGE WITHIN THE AIR CONDITIONERS BLOWER MOTOR AND THE AIR CONDITIONER/HEATER RESISTOR AND CONNECTOR WERE MELTED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 177,000. UPDATED 08/31/2011 *LN

Power Train › Driveline › Driveshaft

Filed Jun 17, 2005800 milesVA

DT: WHILE DRIVING AND WITHOUT WARNING THE TRUCK SHOOK. DEALER SAID THEY FIXED IT ABOUT 5 TIMES, BUT CALLER INSISTED IT WAS NOT FIXED. MANUFACTURER HAS NOT CALLED CALLER BACK YET. *AK

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2007

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2010	1	0	Routine
2009	0	2	Routine
2008	0	3	Routine
2007	3	3	Routine
2006	1	3	Routine
2005 — this page	2	0	Routine
2004	1	1	Routine
2003	1	1	Routine
2000	1	0	Routine
1998	0	1	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.