Model years Chevrolet Suburban 1500
2016 Chevrolet Suburban 1500
Complaints about this year name brakes far more often than the model's other years — 20% of them, about 34× the usual rate of 0.6%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 217 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- stop — 28.6% of this year's complaints, against 5.4% across the model's other years (5.3×).
- hard — 28.1% of this year's complaints, against 7.9% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: hard, push, low speed, breaks.
- brake — 28.1% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (3.5×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- stop — 29% of complaints, 8× usual
- brake — 28% of complaints, 8× usual
- brake pedal — 16% of complaints, 39× usual
What owners wrote
WHEN REVERSING THE VEHICLE, THE BRAKES BECAME STIFF AND DIDN'T WORK PROPERLY. IN ORDER TO GET THE SUV TO STOP, EXCESSIVE FORCE HAD TO BE USED ON THE BRAKE PEDAL. WE NARROWLY MISSED ANOTHER CAR. WE TURNED THE CAR OFF AND ON AND HAD THE SAME ISSUE GOING IN REVER…
WHILE DRIVING LOW SPEEDS, THE BRAKES FAILED. THE CONTACT HAD TO USE FORCE WHEN DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL TO STOP THE VEHICLE. ALSO, THE CHECK ENGINE WARNING INDICATOR ILLUMINATED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE DEALER AND [VIN] WERE NOT MADE A…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Suburban 1500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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