Model years Chevrolet Suburban 2500
2012 Chevrolet Suburban 2500
This year drew an ordinary 101 complaints for a Chevrolet Suburban 2500 — the model's median is 122. What they were about is the unusual part: 9.9% of them mention within, against 1.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 101 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 122 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 12 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- within — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 1.7% across the model's other years (5.8×). Owners wrote it as: within, subjected, mph attempting, wheel seized.
- lock — 10.9% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: lock, tested, unlock, locks.
- shut off — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (3.5×). Owners wrote it as: shut off, radio, lights come, only time.
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
WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE RADIO AND DASHBOARD LIGHTS BLINKED OFF AND ON AND THE DOORS LOCKED AND UNLOCKED CONTINUOUSLY. THE CONTACT ALSO STATED THAT THE ENGINE WAS ACTING LIKE IT WAS STALLING. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE ABS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY. THE CONTACT…
WHILE DRIVING WITHIN 2-5 MPH AND ATTEMPTING TO PARK WITH THE STEERING WHEEL TURNED TO RIGHT, THE STEERING WHEEL SEIZED AND THE VEHICLE CRASHED INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE THAT WAS PARKED. THERE WERE NO INJURIES SUSTAINED. A POLICE REPORT WAS NOT FILED. THE VEHICLE WA…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Suburban 2500 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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