Model years Chevrolet Traverse
2021 Chevrolet Traverse
This year drew an ordinary 86 complaints for a Chevrolet Traverse — the model's median is 313. What they were about is the unusual part: 22.1% of them mention shop, against 6.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Traverse, which began in 2018 and ran to 2023. 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 | 86 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 313 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- shop — 22.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.9% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: shop, little, bob, thursday.
- control vehicle — 10.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: control vehicle, concerned, using.
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
Around 8-19-24 I started noticing liquid on my garage floor. It had a slight oil consistency to it. I brought it in to a local auto shop who inspected it and confirmed the radiator was leaking randomly. There was no visible damage to it and no reason it should…
Right Rear upper and lower toe links broke nearly causing a serious accident when brakes were applied, vehicle pulled severely to the right causing it to swerve and narrowly missing another vehicle. The toe link failure on my vehicle which has only 29702 miles…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V817000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 21V472000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V210000 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.
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