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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Tahoe

What it says about you

Opinion

A Suburban for people whose garage has a limit. Same idea, one less row of compromise.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 6,039 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2015 (interior), 2008 (lock), 2007 (door handles). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • brakes 2016, 2017, 2025 peak 23.8% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 3 recalls 20 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 40 complaints
  3. 2024 3 recalls 60 complaints
  4. 2023 5 recalls 205 complaints
  5. 2022 4 recalls 178 complaints
  6. 2021 16 recalls 432 complaints
  7. 2020 3 recalls 55 complaints
  8. 2019 2 recalls 103 complaints
  9. 2018 3 recalls 101 complaints
  10. 2017 4 recalls 173 complaints
  11. 2016 8 recalls 256 complaints
  12. 2015 interior 661 complaints
  13. 2014 3 recalls 93 complaints
  14. 2013 4 recalls 233 complaints
  15. 2012 3 recalls 180 complaints
  16. 2011 5 recalls 456 complaints
  17. 2010 4 recalls 319 complaints
  18. 2009 5 recalls 306 complaints
  19. 2008 lock 586 complaints
  20. 2007 door handles 1,176 complaints
  21. 2006 4 recalls 114 complaints
  22. 2005 7 recalls 292 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Tahoe say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.