2014 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 93 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 205. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.4% of them mention police, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Chevrolet Tahoe ran from 2007 to 2014, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 93 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 205 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- police — 20.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.4% across the other years of this generation (4.6×). Owners wrote it as: police, motion, department, ppv.
- officer — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 0.7% across the other years of this generation (11.4×). Owners wrote it as: officer, steer, pursuit, training.
- condition — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.2% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: condition, 2wd, worn, 4wd.
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
MY TAHOE HAS ONLY 40,000 MI. WHEN BRAKING THE VEHICLE SHAKES AND SHIVERS ESPECIALLY WHEN BRAKING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. I REPLACED MY TIRES EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE ONLY HALF WORN TO SEE IF THAT WAS THE PROBLEM BUT IT DIDN'T CHARGE ANYTHING. #2 COMPLAINT IS MY REAR D…
DASH CRACKED/BROKEN OVER STEERING. STATIONARY. OBVIOUSLY INFERIOR/DEFECTIVE MATERIAL USED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 13V342000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC
- 14V614000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 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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