Model years Chevrolet Traverse
2011 Chevrolet Traverse
This year drew an ordinary 608 complaints for a Chevrolet Traverse — the model's median is 291. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.5% of them mention timing, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Traverse, which began in 2009 and ran to 2017. 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 | 608 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 291 |
| Involving a crash | 16 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- timing — 13.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the other years of this generation (10.4×). Owners wrote it as: timing, chain, timing chain, chains.
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 GOT MY CAR 6 MONTHS AGO, SO FAR THE BRAKES WENT OUT, ROTORS WENT OUT, ALL STRUTS HAD TO BE REOLACED, HEATER BROKE, AIR CONDITIONER LEAKES, AND NOW TIMING CHAINS NEED TO BE REPLAVED. I FOUND AN INSPECTION COMPLETED 2 WEEKS BEFORE I BOUGHT MY CAR DONE AT ANOTH…
CAR WAS POWERING DOWN AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS AND CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. NOW NEEDS TIMING CHAINS REPLACED. ALSO STARTED HAVING ISSUES WITH THE STEERING NOT WORKING AND THE STEERING RACK IS BAD AND NEEDS REPLACES. SUSPENSION IS NO GOOD AND ALL HAS TO BE REDONE.…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V246000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 14V266000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
- 15V415000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 14V118000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 12V151000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Traverse 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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