Chevrolet Tahoe: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 80 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Tahoe, model years 1988 to 2026. NHTSA has 10,024 complaints on file for this model line. 33 of the 37 model years have a page on this register.

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NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 30 Sep 2026. Recall file through 30 Sep 2026.

Model years

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

Chevrolet Tahoe: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2026 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	26	10%	8,384
2025 Chevrolet Tahoe	1	49	18%	2,457
2024 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	67	25%	1,047,254
2023 Chevrolet Tahoe	5	222	82%	1,787,551
2022 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	189	70%	1,865,577
2021 Chevrolet Tahoe	16	453	167%	2,932,411
2020 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	57	21%	687,307
2019 Chevrolet Tahoe	2	106	39%	653,033
2018 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	104	38%	4,124,306
2017 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	173	64%	7,749,914
2016 Chevrolet Tahoe	8	256	94%	7,819,907
2015 Chevrolet Tahoe	14	658	243%	9,776,179
2014 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	90	33%	1,884,445
2013 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	232	86%	2,631,647
2012 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	178	66%	2,146,965
2011 Chevrolet Tahoe	5	446	165%	4,534,897
2010 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	314	116%	5,111,926
2009 Chevrolet Tahoe	5	284	105%	5,283,079
2008 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	528	195%	5,421,100
2007 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	1,177	434%	5,421,100
2006 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	114	42%	155,682
2005 Chevrolet Tahoe	5	293	108%	1,368,541
2004 Chevrolet Tahoe	2	467	172%	1,428,699
2003 Chevrolet Tahoe	4	507	187%	1,432,480
2002 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	449	166%	1,916,296
2001 Chevrolet Tahoe	5	512	189%	1,961,151
2000 Chevrolet Tahoe	6	282	104%	3,861,131
1999 Chevrolet Tahoe	1	552	204%	279,132
1998 Chevrolet Tahoe	2	263	97%	5,094
1997 Chevrolet Tahoe	0	410	151%
1996 Chevrolet Tahoe	3	283	104%	3,692,465
1995 Chevrolet Tahoe	6	246	91%	3,741,080
1994 Chevrolet Tahoe	2	19	7%	3,313,461
1993 Chevrolet Tahoe NHTSA page	0	8	3%
1992 Chevrolet Tahoe NHTSA page	0	6	2%
1991 Chevrolet Tahoe NHTSA page	0	3	1%
1988 Chevrolet Tahoe NHTSA page	0	1	0%

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

13,010 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 Tahoe: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Air Bags	119.7	1,557
Electrical System	116.6	1,517
Unknown or Other	103.8	1,351
Service Brakes, Hydraulic	80.2	1,044
Structure	69.3	901
Power Train	67.2	874
Service Brakes	63.3	824
Engine	61.1	795
Steering	44.7	581
Visibility	25.9	337

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Tahoe, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2021, with 14 campaigns.

Complaints about the Chevrolet Tahoe, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 763 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Malibu66 campaigns
Silverado 150055 campaigns
Impala57 campaigns
Equinox32 campaigns
Silverado46 campaigns
Blazer40 campaigns
Suburban82 campaigns
Cobalt10 campaigns
Trailblazer29 campaigns
S1033 campaigns
Traverse32 campaigns
Corvette48 campaigns
Cavalier40 campaigns
Silverado 250044 campaigns
Cruze26 campaigns
Colorado29 campaigns
HHR7 campaigns
Camaro56 campaigns
Lumina29 campaigns
Astro17 campaigns
Venture18 campaigns
Monte Carlo44 campaigns
Avalanche18 campaigns
Volt8 campaigns
Suburban 15007 campaigns
Aveo4 campaigns
Silverado 350045 campaigns
Malibu Maxx4 campaigns
Bolt EV14 campaigns
Trax11 campaigns
Sonic16 campaigns
Avalanche 15005 campaigns
Trailblazer EXT9 campaigns
Corsica15 campaigns
C15001 campaign
Caprice50 campaigns
Express72 campaigns
Uplander5 campaigns
Beretta15 campaigns
Spark9 campaigns
Chevrolet Truck10 campaigns
Pickup0 campaigns
Lumina APV11 campaigns
Tracker0 campaigns
C/K Pickups4 campaigns
K15001 campaign
Captiva1 campaign
Malibu Classic2 campaigns
Cobalt SS0 campaigns
Trailblazer EXT 3700 campaigns
G2022 campaigns
Equinox EV7 campaigns
15003 campaigns
C152 campaigns
C25001 campaign
Van0 campaigns
Celebrity15 campaigns
Silverado 1500 HD0 campaigns
C1041 campaigns
Suburban 25000 campaigns

Chevrolet: all 178 model lines

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Tahoe: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/tahoe/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 30 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 30 Sep 2026
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 Tahoe model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2021 with 16, 2015 with 14, 2016 with 8. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Tahoe model year has the most complaints?: The 2007 model year, with 1,177 of the 10,024 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Tahoe name?: Air Bags: 119.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 116.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 103.8 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Tahoe?: 27 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.