Federal complaint record · Chevrolet Traverse · model year 2016

2016 Chevrolet Traverse

Owners submitted 290 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 34th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2014 to 2018 midsize suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 43% · group n = 162Powertrain · 9% · group n = 36Engine · 8% · group n = 31Electrical · 7% · group n = 26Steering · 6% · group n = 24
290
Complaint records on file
47,750
Median mileage at the reported problem · 88 complaints reported mileage
43%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 162
34th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Airbags · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags43%

Airbags reports

Chevrolet Traverse · model year 2016

Reports in this group162
Share of classified reports43%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2015
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
312 matched incidents
This car
2016
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
290 matched incidents
2017
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
358 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 141 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32016 Chevrolet Traverse
Steering effort · 18 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32016 Chevrolet Traverse
Transmission behavior · 18 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32016 Chevrolet Traverse

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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