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Chevrolet Tahoe 2011

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.26 per 1,000

0.9 times this nameplate’s own median · from 20 complaints filed in the first three years, of 456 ever. 95% lower bound 0.14.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.49	45
2009	0.23	19
2010	0.12	9
2011	0.26	20
2012	0.09	7
2013	0.24	18
2014	0.18	16
2015	1.65	153
2016	0.66	63
2017	0.29	29
2018	0.28	28
2019	0.26	27
2020	0.13	12
2021	1.24	120
2022	0.62	66
2023	1.36	147

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Unknown Or Other 214 complaints

cracked	110	51%
airbag	90	42%
dashboard cracked	37	17%
dash cracked	33	16%
side airbag	20	10%
cracked dash	17	8%

Air Bags 186 complaints

dash	57	31%
dashboard	50	27%
cracked	49	26%
recall notification	29	16%
crack	26	14%
cracks	24	13%

Structure 85 complaints

dashboard cracked	15	18%
passenger airbag	11	13%
dash cracked	10	12%

When it breaks

8% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 70,000 miles, from 281 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10377878 · 10380660 · 10416595 · 10445052 · 10454886 · 10459535

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.