Recall Register

Chevrolet Avalanche: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 18 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Avalanche, model years 2000 to 2013. NHTSA has 1,673 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 14 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20000
  2. 20010
  3. 20022
  4. 20034
  5. 20045
  6. 20053
  7. 20061
  8. 20074
  9. 20084
  10. 20095
  11. 20103
  12. 20113
  13. 20123
  14. 20132
Chevrolet Avalanche: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2013 Chevrolet Avalanche23529%2,470,654
2012 Chevrolet Avalanche32521%2,146,965
2011 Chevrolet Avalanche310487%4,503,592
2010 Chevrolet Avalanche38974%5,111,926
2009 Chevrolet Avalanche55344%5,283,079
2008 Chevrolet Avalanche4186156%5,421,100
2007 Chevrolet Avalanche4286239%5,421,100
2006 Chevrolet Avalanche NHTSA page1119%32,068
2005 Chevrolet Avalanche37059%1,444,429
2004 Chevrolet Avalanche5164137%5,206,760
2003 Chevrolet Avalanche4204171%5,096,644
2002 Chevrolet Avalanche2442370%5,015,929
2001 Chevrolet Avalanche NHTSA page022%
2000 Chevrolet Avalanche NHTSA page022%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

2,092 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet Avalanche: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags208.4436
Structure114.7240
Unknown or Other104.7219
Electrical System90.3189
Service Brakes, Hydraulic84.6177
Service Brakes66.9140
Power Train48.3101
Engine and Engine Cooling30.163
Engine23.950
Visibility22.948

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Avalanche, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2005, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Avalanche, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 212 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Avalanche: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/avalanche/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet Avalanche model years have the most recall campaigns?
2009 with 5, 2004 with 5, 2008 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Avalanche model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 442 of the 1,673 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Avalanche name?
Air Bags: 208.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 114.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 104.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Avalanche?
9 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.