Seat belts
Filed Oct 24, 2025
Safety restraint system light comes on regularly
- NHTSA ID
- 11695368
- Incident
- Oct 24, 2025
2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Seat belts Problems
Owner-reported complaints naming the seat belt system, filed with NHTSA
Data refreshed
Seat belts reportsComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
10
Latest Oct 24, 2025
Share of all reportsThis category as a share of every owner report on file for this model year. One report can name more than one component, so the categories overlap.
2%
of 511 total
Crash or fire reportedReports in this category whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. The reporter's own answer on the NHTSA form, not a verified finding.
2
Injuries or deaths reportedTotals the submitters entered on their own reports in this category. Not verified by NHTSA and not a casualty statistic.
2
What this page shows
Reports naming seat belts, buckles, retractors and pretensioners. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 10 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Owner reports naming seat belt
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
AirbagsBrakesSeat belts
Filed Sep 3, 2025
Vacuum pump problem Hard to brake to stop My truck is LT not LD
- NHTSA ID
- 11684642
- Incident
- Aug 31, 2025
Seat belts
Filed Jun 11, 2022
GOT IN DRIVERS SEAT TO FASTEN SEATBELT, CLIP WOULDNT STAY IN BELT-HAVE TO PUSH RED CLIP TO KEEP BELT ENGAGED
- NHTSA ID
- 11468773
- Incident
- May 23, 2022
Seat belts
Filed May 20, 2021
The rear seat belts do not retract once extended. The emergency locking mechanism locks the belt, but the belt does not retract. Installation of car seats that require seat belts to be locked and retracted until tight is not possible.
- NHTSA ID
- 11417941
- Incident
- May 17, 2021
Seat belts
Filed Feb 1, 2021
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FRONT PASSENGER'S, REAR PASSENGER'S, AND THE REAR DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT BELT FAILED TO RETRACT AND WAS TIGHT AROUND CHEST. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE LOCAL DEALER. THE MANUFACTURER WAS INFORMED OF THE FAILURE AND INFORMED THE CONTACT THAT THE VEHICLE WAS NOT UNDER WARRANTY AND THERE WOULD BE NO ASSISTANCE IN REPAIRING THE VEHICLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 58,000.
- NHTSA ID
- 11391055
- Incident
- Dec 5, 2020
- Mileage
- 58,000 mi
Seat belts
Filed Nov 8, 2020
REAR MIDDLE SEAT BELT TOP PLASTIC BRACKET IS MADE VERY UNRELIABLE AND UNSAFE, FIXED IT THREE TIME AT DEALERSHIP. THE PLASTIC BRACKET BREAKS ALL THE TIME WITH JUST A SLIGHT PULL ON THE SEAT BELT. ONCE BROKEN THE SEAT BELT GETS STUCK OR TWIST AROUND BRACKET AND NO LONGER WORKS. IT SHOULD BE FIXED BY CHEVY/GMC IMMEDIATELY IF SOMEONE GET IN AN ACCIDENT THERE WILL BE A LAW SUIT. THERE ARE MANY OTHER PEOPLE COMPLAINING OF THIS ISSUE ON LINE.
- NHTSA ID
- 11373722
- Incident
- Dec 5, 2018
- Mileage
- 250 mi
Seat belts
Filed Aug 10, 2020
THE MIDDLE REAR SEATBELT IN THE 2018 SILVERADO CREW CAB HAS A PLASTIC STRAP RETAINER THAT COMES APART EASILY, CAUSING THE SEATBELT TO GET STUCK ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER OF THE METAL POSITIONING BAR. THIS HAS HAPPENED WHILE DRIVING AND THE REAR CENTER PASSENGER'S SEATBELT WAS LEFT SLACKED. IT WILL ONLY RETURN ONCE THE SEATBELT STRAP IS MANUALLY CENTERED ON THE METAL POSITIONING BAR. THE CLIPS ON THE PLASTIC PIECE APPEAR TO BE INSUFFICIENT. THE CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP HAS REPLACED THE PLASTIC STRAP RETAINER PIECE ONCE ALREADY AND IT DID NOT CORRECT THE PROBLEM.
- NHTSA ID
- 11348383
- Incident
- May 1, 2020
- Mileage
- 20,000 mi
Seat belts
Filed May 16, 2019
Crash reported1 injury reported
DURING A MINOR INCIDENT WITH LOW IMPACT AND AT A LOW SPEED, BOTH FRONT SEAT SEATBELT PRETNESIONERS FIRED OFF, LOCKING BOTH BELTS COMPLETELY AND FILLING THE TRUCK WITH SMOKE. NO ONE WAS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT WHEN THAT ONE ENGAGED. I WAS BACKING UP IN A SHOPPING CENTER PARKING LOT SLOWLY AND DID NOT SEE A CONCRETE SLAB BEHIND ME DUE TO THE ANGLE.
- NHTSA ID
- 11208124
- Incident
- May 15, 2019
- Mileage
- 4,308 mi
AirbagsSeat belts
Filed Apr 10, 2019
Crash reported1 injury reported
TL* THE CONTACT OWNED A 2018 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500. WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH AND ENDED UP IN A RIVER EMBANKMENT. THE VEHICLE WAS TOTALED AND TOWED AWAY. THE AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY AND THE SEAT BELT PRETENSIONERS FAILED. THE CONTACT SUSTAINED A BROKEN BACK AND RECEIVED MEDICAL ATTENTION. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER WERE NOT MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS NOT DETERMINED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 18,000.
- NHTSA ID
- 11195432
- Incident
- Apr 1, 2019
- Mileage
- 18,000 mi
ElectricalSeat belts
Filed Mar 29, 2019
RADIO QUIT WORKING AND TRUCK WOULD NOT START TOOK IT TO DEALERSHIP THEY ORDERED NEW RADIO AND THEN LATER INSTALLED IT STILL DIDENT WORK ORDERED MODULE FOR IT TOLD THEM TRUCK WAS SHORTING OUT AND WOULD NOT START AND ASKED THEM IF I SHOULD LEAVE IT ON BATTERY CHARGER OVER NIGHT SO IT WOULD START IN MORNING THEY SAID YES KEEP DOING THAT UNTIL PART CAME IN IT DID AND THEY FIXED IT A MONTH AGO WAS AT MALL TRUCK UOULD NOT START TRIED IT AGAIN STILL NOTHING TOOK KEY OUT WAITED COUPLE MINUTES AND IT STARTED THEN SEATBELT STUCK IN DOOR AND WENT THROUGH DOOR PANEL AT HOME DEPOT TOOK IT TO DEALERSHIP THEY SAID IT WAS A SAFETY ISSUE AN COULD FIX THE SEAT BELT BUT NOT THE DOOR BECAUSE I PUT BLACK SILICONE ON DOOR TO COVER HOLE AND NOW THE HEADLINER WHERE YOU PUT YOUR SUNGLASSES IS FALLING DOWN WORRIED I BOUGHT A LEMON BUT NOT SURE BECAUSE THIS IS MY FIRST NEW TRUCK AND IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A DELAY WHEN YOU LET OF THE GAS AND IT STOPS GIVING THE ENGINE GAS
- NHTSA ID
- 11192361
- Incident
- Dec 21, 2018
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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Data sources
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints and the components recorded on them
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