2012 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 180 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 205. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.2% of them mention cracked dash, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Tahoe, which began in 2007 and ran to 2014. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 180 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 205 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- cracked dash — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (3.3×).
- appeared — 7.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: appeared, around air, nowhere, appeared out.
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
THERE ARE 2 CRACKS ON THE CENTER DASH ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RADIO SPEAKER. THEY APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE AND ARE GETTING WORSE.
I HAVE A 2 INCH CRACK BY MY PASSENGER SIDE AIR BAG IN MY DASH ALSO THAT JUST KIND OF APPEARED OUT OF NOWHERE AND THE CENTER OF THE WINDSHIELD PANEL OF THE DASH IS ALSO LIFTING UP. I HAVE JUST NOTICED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V827000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V051000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V054000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Tahoe 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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