Model years Chevrolet Traverse
2010 Chevrolet Traverse
This year drew an ordinary 668 complaints for a Chevrolet Traverse — the model's median is 291. What they were about is the unusual part: 48.4% of them mention steering, against 12.1% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Traverse, which began in 2009 and ran to 2017. 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 | 668 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 291 |
| Involving a crash | 17 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- steering — 48.4% of this year's complaints, against 12.1% across the other years of this generation (4×).
- speeds — 30.8% of this year's complaints, against 12.3% across the other years of this generation (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: speeds, low, low speeds, slow.
- pump — 21.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: pump, rack, steering pump, pinion.
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
THE VEHICLE EXPERIENCES LOSS OF POWER STEERING AT LOW SPEEDS. CHEVROLET ISSUED A SPECIAL WARRANTY FOR THE POWER STEERING PUMP, HOWEVER WHEN TAKEN TO THE DEALER, THE VEHICLE ALSO HAD A CRACKED STEERING RACK. A QUICK INTERNET SEARCH SHOWED THAT HUNDREDS OF OTHER…
POWER STEERING FAILS WITHOUT WARNING WHEN MAKING TURNS, PARTICULARLY AT LOW SPEEDS. THEN AS QUICKLY AS IT FAILS, IT WILL RETURN AGAIN. THE CAR NOW HAS 120,000 MILES ON IT, BUT THIS ISSUE STARTED WHEN IT ONLY HAD 50,000 MILES ON IT, AND WAS JUST OUT OF WARRANTE…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V246000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V415000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V266000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V118000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 10V375000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Traverse 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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