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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Traverse

What it says about you

Opinion

Three rows without the minivan, and everyone is going to hear that the minivan was considered. Everyone knows. Everyone always knows.

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

19 model years on record, 5,409 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

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.

  • park 2018, 2019, 2022 peak 58% of that year's complaints
  • bags however 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 peak 46.9% of that year's complaints
  • shift 2018, 2019, 2022 peak 50.7% of that year's complaints
  • brake 2024, 2025 peak 52% of that year's complaints
  • steering 2009, 2010 peak 50% of that year's complaints
  • confirms 2016, 2017 peak 42.2% of that year's complaints
  • control 2013, 2021 peak 35.4% of that year's complaints
  • made aware 2014, 2015 peak 31.6% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 20 complaints
  3. 2025 0 recalls 171 complaints
  4. 2024 0 recalls 130 complaints
  5. 2023 2 recalls 85 complaints
  6. 2022 1 recall 95 complaints
  7. 2021 3 recalls 86 complaints
  8. 2020 8 recalls 218 complaints
  9. 2019 3 recalls 400 complaints
  10. 2018 2 recalls 454 complaints
  11. 2017 3 recalls 360 complaints
  12. 2016 5 recalls 291 complaints
  13. 2015 5 recalls 313 complaints
  14. 2014 7 recalls 547 complaints
  15. 2013 4 recalls 161 complaints
  16. 2012 5 recalls 354 complaints
  17. 2011 5 recalls 608 complaints
  18. 2010 5 recalls 668 complaints
  19. 2009 8 recalls 448 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Traverse 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.