Model years Chevrolet Uplander
2008 Chevrolet Uplander
This year drew an ordinary 118 complaints for a Chevrolet Uplander — the model's median is 158. What they were about is the unusual part: 19.5% of them mention brakes, against 7.7% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 118 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 158 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 19.5% of this year's complaints, against 7.7% across the model's other years (2.5×).
- leaking — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 1.8% across the model's other years (5.1×). Owners wrote it as: leaking, odor, smelling, smelling gas.
- assistance — 9.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: assistance, determine, design flaw.
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 CONTACT OWNED A 2008 CHEVROLET UPLANDER. AFTER DRIVING FOR APPROXIMATELY THREE HOURS AND TURNING OFF THE ENGINE, THERE WAS A STRONG FUEL ODOR. THE CONTACT NOTICED FUEL LEAKING FROM THE TOP OF THE TANK. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE VEHICLE W…
THE ABS SYSTEM WAS ACTIVATED AND HE WAS UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHEN THE VEHICLE WOULD STOP. APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR EARLIER, THE DEALER REPLACED THE WHEEL BEARING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHERE THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT THE FRONT BRAKE DUST SHIELD…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 10V110000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
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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