Chevrolet Suburban 1500
What it says about you
Opinion
The standard enormous one, which is a phrase that only makes sense here.
Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.
18 model years on record, 1,679 complaints filed.
The years to look at closely: 2016 (brakes), 2015 (brakes), 2011 (airbag), 2010 (cracked). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.
What owners report, and when
Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.
- transmission 2018, 2019, 2020 peak 48.7% of that year's complaints
- airbag 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 peak 35.9% of that year's complaints
- cracked 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 peak 35.3% of that year's complaints
- dash 2010, 2012, 2014 peak 40.6% of that year's complaints
- brake 2015, 2016, 2017 peak 28.1% of that year's complaints
- hard 2015, 2016 peak 32.2% of that year's complaints
Every year
- 2023 1 recall 17 complaints
- 2021 0 recalls 1 complaints
- 2020 0 recalls 42 complaints
- 2019 0 recalls 76 complaints
- 2018 0 recalls 81 complaints
- 2017 0 recalls 141 complaints
- 2016 brakes 217 complaints
- 2015 brakes 428 complaints
- 2014 0 recalls 59 complaints
- 2013 0 recalls 118 complaints
- 2012 0 recalls 101 complaints
- 2011 airbag 228 complaints
- 2010 cracked 170 complaints
- 2009 nothing on record 0 complaints
- 2008 nothing on record 0 complaints
- 2007 nothing on record 0 complaints
- 2006 2 recalls 0 complaints
- 2005 1 recall 0 complaints
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.
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