2013 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 233 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 180. What they were about is the unusual part: 6% of them mention event, 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 | 233 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 180 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- event — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (2.7×).
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
MULTIPLE CRACKS IN DASH PANEL AROUND PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAG THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BECOME DANGEROUS SHRAPNEL IN THE EVENT OF DEPLOYMENT.
TWO LARGE CRACKS ON MY DASHBOARD. THEY VIBRATE WHEN DRIVING, I AM CONCERNED THEY MAY FRACTURE IN EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT AND THE AIRBAGS DEPLOY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 13V001000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V614000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 21V053000 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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