Model years Chevrolet Uplander
2006 Chevrolet Uplander
This year drew an ordinary 158 complaints for a Chevrolet Uplander — the model's median is 118. What they were about is the unusual part: 7% of them mention voltage, against 0.9% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 158 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 118 |
| Involving a crash | 7 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- voltage — 7% of this year's complaints, against 0.9% across the model's other years (7.6×). Owners wrote it as: voltage, dim, regulator, oncoming.
- tank — 10.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the model's other years (3×). Owners wrote it as: tank, fuel tank, lose power, gasoline.
- night — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: night, flicker, driving night, lights flicker.
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 FUEL GAUGE INDICATED THAT NO FUEL WAS PRESENT WHILE DRIVING DOWNHILL. THE FAILURE OCCURRED WHEN THE FUEL TANK WAS FULL. THE DEALER STATED THAT THERE WAS NO REMEDY FOR THE FAILURE. THEY FURTHER STATED THAT THE VEHICLE COULD RUN OUT OF GASOLINE WHILE DRIVING…
: THE CONTACT STATED AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE HEAD LIGHTS AND THE DASH LIGHTS INTERMITTENTLY FAILED WITHOUT WARNING. THE DEALER REPLACED THE VOLTAGE REGULATOR HOWEVER THIS DID NOT CORRECT THE PROBLEM.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 09E005000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 06V051000 EQUIPMENT
- 10V110000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 05V552000 EQUIPMENT
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Uplander 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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