Model years Chevrolet Suburban 1500
2019 Chevrolet Suburban 1500
This year drew an ordinary 76 complaints for a Chevrolet Suburban 1500 — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 48.7% of them mention transmission, against 8.5% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 76 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- transmission — 48.7% of this year's complaints, against 8.5% across the model's other years (5.7×).
- slipping — 38.2% of this year's complaints, against 14.3% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: slipping, transmission slipping, jerking, filter.
- cost — 27.6% of this year's complaints, against 8.9% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: cost, fluid, transmission fluid, determined.
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.
What owners wrote
Transmission was slipping, took to dealership to check, serviced it by changing filter and transmission fluid and gasket. At 80k miles transmission was slipping again and jerking from stopped position. Took back to dealership now they are saying I have metal i…
Transmission started shifting very hard while in motion. The vehicle shudders while at speed. Extremely loud vibrations coming from under the vehicle. This vehicle only has 75 k miles on it. Mechanic first flushed and changed transmission fluid. Vehicle still…
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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