Model years Chevrolet Traverse
2013 Chevrolet Traverse
This year drew an ordinary 161 complaints for a Chevrolet Traverse — the model's median is 313. What they were about is the unusual part: 35.4% of them mention control, against 11.8% 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 | 161 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 313 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- control — 35.4% of this year's complaints, against 11.8% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- shut — 16.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.2% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: shut, shut off, vehicle started, shut down.
- ignition — 11.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.9% across the other years of this generation (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: ignition, switch, ignition switch, cable.
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
DRIVING AT HIGH SPEED WHEN "TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT OFF" INDICATOR CAME ON, THEN VEHICLE STARTED TO REDUCE SPEED, "ENGINE LIGHT INDICATOR POWER OFF". VEHICLE SHUT OFF AND WOULD NOT START.
#1 = TRAVELING ON HIGHWAY APPROX. 65 CAR SHUT DOWN NO POWER , COASTED TO SIDE OF HIGHWAY , RESTARTED 10 MIN. LATER. #2 = SHUT OFF CAR IN DRIVEWAY IT KEPT RUNNING. #3 = ALL WARNING LIGHT CAME ON AND RADIO WOULDN'T WORK. AFRAID TO PUT GRAND KIDS IN CAR.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V266000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V118000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V782000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 21V246000 AIR BAGS 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.
Own a 2013 Chevrolet Traverse? What happened to yours?
Loading comments…