2023 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 205 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 180. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.3% of them mention new engine, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the Chevrolet Tahoe, which began in 2021. 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 | 205 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 180 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- new engine — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: new engine, towed nearest.
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
6.2l engine catastrophic engine failure with appt 17,000 miles on odometer. Kendall Chevrolet of marysville Washington has new engine on back order.
Engine, (6.2 liter V8), quit without warning at highway speed, nearly causing head-on collision. Engine wouldn't re-start and needed to be towed to dealership on flatbed truck. Vehicle also wouldn't shift into neutral requiring it to be dragged onto flatbed. C…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V903000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 23V642000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 24V674000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 25V274000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V619000 FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL 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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