all vehicles · every Traverse year · method

Chevrolet Traverse 2018

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

1.03 per 1,000

2.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 139 complaints filed in the first three years, of 460 ever. 95% lower bound 0.86.

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
2009	0.34	31
2010	0.35	35
2011	0.61	65
2012	0.33	32
2013	0.33	30
2014	0.71	71
2015	0.33	37
2016	0.41	49
2017	0.38	45
2018	1.03	139
2019	0.51	75
2020	0.24	33
2021	0.19	23
2022	0.41	44
2023	0.54	60

What owners describe

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

Power Train 196 complaints

park	125	63%
shift	110	56%
shift park	90	46%
turn off	51	26%
message	48	24%
park message	26	13%

Unknown Or Other 105 complaints

park	58	55%
shift	46	44%
shift park	41	39%
chevy	16	16%
converter	13	13%
recognize	11	11%

Electrical System 102 complaints

park	66	65%
shift	56	55%
shift park	53	52%
put park	13	13%
shifter	13	13%
park error	11	11%

When it breaks

49% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 32,000 miles, from 186 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

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:

11032115 · 11057047 · 11064385 · 11071566 · 11073967 · 11080407

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.