2015 Chevrolet Tahoe
Complaints about this year name interior far more often than the other years of this generation — 6% of them, about 16× the usual rate of 0.4%.
First year of a new generation. The Chevrolet Tahoe was redesigned for 2015. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 661 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 180 |
| Involving a crash | 30 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 14 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- interior — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 1% across the other years of this generation (11.2×). Owners wrote it as: interior, signal, turn signal, flash.
- leaking — 6.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% 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.
Also unusual this year
- vacuum pump — 10% of complaints, 3× usual
- line — 8% of complaints, 4× usual
- leaking — 6% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
Gas leaking out of my vehicle. First noticed it right after pumping gas then started smelling a strong odor of gasoline!
Safety Hazard. Fuel feed line is leaking from top of gas tank and running down beside tank, which can lead to vehicle fire or explosion.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V586000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 18V291000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V640000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V301000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 14. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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