2016 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 256 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 180. What they were about is the unusual part: 23.8% of them mention brakes, against 7.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Tahoe, which began in 2015 and ran to 2020. 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 | 256 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 180 |
| Involving a crash | 17 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 23.8% of this year's complaints, against 7.9% across the other years of this generation (3×).
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
WHEN DRIVING AT SLOW SPEEDS AS IN A PARKING LOT THE BRAKES FAIL TO STOP TRUCK. THIS HAPPENED THREE TIMES WITH IN A 30 MINUTE TIME PERIOD.
BRAKES DO NOT WORK WHEN GOING AT A SLOW PACE. HAVE TAKEN THE CAR IN 2X AND THEY CANNOT FIN ANYTHING WRONG. JUST TOOK IN FOR 3RD TIME AND THIS TIME I DROVE IN THE CAR WITH THEM. THEY CONFIRMED THEY BRAKES ARE NOT WORKING PROPERLY.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 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.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V256000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 21V245000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 26V289000 POWER TRAIN 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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