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Chevrolet Traverse 2019

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

0.51 per 1,000

1.4 times this nameplate’s own median · from 75 complaints filed in the first three years, of 412 ever. 95% lower bound 0.40.

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 170 complaints

shift park	104	60%
park message	25	15%
shifting park	24	14%
message shift	22	13%
recognize	13	8%
park displayed	12	7%

Electrical System 114 complaints

park	89	78%
shift	79	69%
shift park	70	61%
park message	15	13%
shifting park	14	13%
park error	13	12%

Unknown Or Other 95 complaints

park	73	77%
shift	60	63%
shift park	58	61%
park message	12	13%

When it breaks

42% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 42,000 miles, from 97 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:

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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.