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Chevrolet Tahoe 2008

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

0.49 per 1,000

1.8 times this nameplate’s own median · from 45 complaints filed in the first three years, of 586 ever. 95% lower bound 0.35.

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.

Air Bags 244 complaints

recall	189	77%
takata	151	62%
takata recall	139	57%
recall notification	55	23%
remedy	47	19%
recall recall	28	12%

Electrical System 100 complaints

door	44	44%
locks	24	24%
door locks	21	21%
chevy	20	20%
door lock	16	16%

Unknown Or Other 97 complaints

dash cracked	12	13%
deployment	11	12%
dashboard cracked	11	12%
cracked dashboard	10	11%

When it breaks

11% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 75,000 miles, from 341 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

5 investigations covering this model year, 2 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 18 complaints about this component over roughly 16 months before an investigation opened.

NON-CRASH ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES

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

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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.