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Chevrolet Traverse 2009

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

0.34 per 1,000

0.9 times this nameplate’s own median · from 31 complaints filed in the first three years, of 448 ever. 95% lower bound 0.22.

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.

Steering 231 complaints

low	65	28%
parking	63	27%
pump	55	24%
chevy	46	20%
low speeds	44	19%
steering pump	41	18%

Power Train 58 complaints

wave	10	18%
plate	10	18%

Engine 50 complaints

timing	18	36%
timing chain	14	28%
chain	14	28%

When it breaks

9% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 80,000 miles, from 394 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

3 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Fleet Vehicle Recall Completion Audit

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:

10260258 · 10267177 · 10268490 · 10268738 · 10272933 · 10280624

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.