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Chevrolet Tahoe 2013

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

0.24 per 1,000

0.9 times this nameplate’s own median · from 18 complaints filed in the first three years, of 234 ever. 95% lower bound 0.13.

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 122 complaints

cracked	66	54%
airbag	54	44%
dashboard cracked	18	15%
dash cracked	18	15%
side airbag	15	13%
passenger airbag	14	12%

Structure 56 complaints

dashboard	35	62%
cracked	25	45%
airbag	23	41%
crack	18	32%
cracks	14	25%
cracking	11	20%

Air Bags 51 complaints

dash	23	45%
dashboard	21	41%
cracked	20	39%
crack	13	26%
cracks	11	22%
deployment	11	22%

When it breaks

10% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 62,000 miles, from 164 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:

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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.