Model years Chevrolet Suburban 1500
2017 Chevrolet Suburban 1500
This year drew an ordinary 141 complaints for a Chevrolet Suburban 1500 — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 23.4% of them mention brakes, against 3.2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 141 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 23.4% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the model's other years (7.3×).
- brake — 27.7% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (3.5×).
- pedal — 24.8% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the model's other years (3.5×).
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
STUCK IN DRIVE GEARS. GEARS WILL NOT SHIFT. BRAKE PEDAL STUCK. OCCURRED SUDDENLY WITH WARNING. VERY DANGEROUS. PREVIOUSLY THE VEHICLE BRAKES PEDAL WAS STUCK IN THE UPWARD POSITION. WOULD NOT GO DOWN. HAD TO FIX IT . CHEVY IS NOT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY. THIS IS…
WHILE DRIVING 10 MPH, THE BRAKES SEIZED WHEN THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE BRAKE VACUUM HOSE SYSTEM FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Suburban 1500 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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