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all vehicles · every Suburban year · method

Chevrolet Suburban 2017

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

0.58 per 1,000

2.1 times this nameplate’s own median · from 34 complaints filed in the first three years, of 141 ever. 95% lower bound 0.39.

Against its own model years

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

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.116
20090.084
20100.000
20110.115
20120.2010
20130.2814
20140.2614
20151.97104
20160.7944
20170.5834
20180.2716
20190.3017
20200.2210
20211.0244
20220.5829
20231.5279

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

21% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 53,333 miles, from 71 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

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

10954215 · 10970628 · 10970627 · 10980289 · 11040305 · 11051337

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.