2018 Chevrolet Tahoe
This year drew an ordinary 101 complaints for a Chevrolet Tahoe — the model's median is 205. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.9% of them mention today, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Tahoe, which began in 2015 and ran to 2020. 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 | 101 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 205 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- today — 13.9% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: today, dept, feet, designed.
- behind — 9.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: behind, inside car, vehicle may, who determined.
- vehicle started — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the other years of this generation (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: vehicle started, called local, four tires, replaced contact.
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
I PURCHASED A 2018 TAHOE 20 DAYS AGO AND AT 45 MPH AND 65-75 MPH I FEEL PRESSURE IN MY EARS WHICH THEN MAKES ME FEEL NAUSEOUS WHICH LEADS TO SEVERE HEADACHES. THIS BUFFERING OCCURS EVERY TIME I DRIVE IT. I HAVE TRIED DRIVING WITH THE WINDOWS DOWN / UP, RADIO O…
while parked on a slight incline and shifting into reverse, the vehicle started driving down the driveway with the brake pedal depressed. The contact stated that the vehicle drove approximately 15-feet in reverse. The contact stated once on a flat service, the…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V603000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V645000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 19V761000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Tahoe 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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