Model years Chevrolet Suburban
2006 Chevrolet Suburban
This year drew an ordinary 56 complaints for a Chevrolet Suburban — the model's median is 27. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.4% of them mention key, against 7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 56 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 27 |
| Involving a crash | 1 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
What the complaints were about
- key — 21.4% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: key, rear liftgate, entry, opened.
- way — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.1% across the model's other years (4.3×).
- release — 17.9% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: release, attempts, child, danger.
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 REAR LIFTGATE WOULD NOT OPEN FROM THE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR OF THE VEHICLE. THE KEY WOULD ALSO NOT ALLOW THE LIFTGATE TO BE OPENED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER NOR WAS THE [VIN] NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 96,000.
SUDDEN AND COMPLETE BRAKE FAILURE DUE TO A BROKEN REAR BRAKE LINE. BRAKES WORKED NORMALLY AND AT THE NEXT STOP THEY WENT COMPLETELY TO THE FLOOR WITH NO BRAKING ACTION. I HAD TO USE DOWN SHIFTING TO SLOW AND THEN A SNOW BANK TO COMPLETELY STOP. THERE WAS NO IN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V552000 EQUIPMENT
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Suburban 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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