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Chevrolet Tahoe 2012

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

0.09 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 7 complaints filed in the first three years, of 180 ever. 95% lower bound 0.02.

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 101 complaints

dash	62	61%
cracked	44	44%
airbag	43	43%
cracks	30	30%
dash cracked	15	15%
passenger airbag	15	15%

Air Bags 63 complaints

dash	33	52%
cracked	21	34%
cracks	17	27%
crack	16	26%

When it breaks

6% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 70,000 miles, from 124 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:

10446509 · 10461601 · 10548433 · 10598685 · 10606611 · 10622016

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.