What is the best year for the Chevrolet Traverse?
No official dataset can support one universal best year. Use the table to compare complaint patterns and EPA figures, then open the shortlisted years for recall campaigns and exact specifications.
Model-year matrix
Chevrolet Traverse
which year?
Compare every Chevrolet Traverse model year the EPA recorded, 2009 to 2027. See complaint patterns, fuel economy and configurations side by side, then open any year for recall campaigns and the full dossier. Confirm against the official NHTSA recall search.
Evidence-led answer
Looking for the best Chevrolet Traverse year—or years to avoid?
The official records cannot honestly name a best, worst or most reliable year. Complaint totals have no sales, mileage or age denominator. They can show where more reports were filed and which components were named, giving you years to investigate more closely before checking the exact car and its VIN.
Which Chevrolet Traverse years should you avoid?
The records cannot justify a blanket avoid label. Years with more reports are surfaced below as research priorities, not predictions about every car from that year.
01 · More reports to inspect2010
668 indexed complaint reports; steering is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2010 dossier →02 · More reports to inspect2011608 indexed complaint reports; engine is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2011 dossier →03 · More reports to inspect2014547 indexed complaint reports; air bags is the most-reported component label.
Open the 2014 dossier →Do not read this as an avoid list. Older and higher-selling model years usually accumulate more reports. A low count can also mean a newer, rarer or poorly matched vehicle—not a safer one.
Complaint totals are counts of owner-submitted allegations, not confirmed defects, and they carry no denominator: they are not adjusted for how many cars were sold, how old they are, how far they are driven, or how much publicity a fault received. A high-volume or older year will usually show more reports than a rare or recent one. The site does not convert these into a reliability score, because the data needed to do that honestly is not in the public record.
Direct comparison
Compare two Chevrolet Traverse model years.
Choose any two years. The URL keeps the pair so you can return to the same comparison. Every figure below is an observed official record or EPA estimate—not a reliability score.
2026 Chevrolet Traverse
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 20
- Combined EPA economy
- 21–22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,800–2,950
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelselectrical system 5forward collision avoidance 5engine 4
Open the 2026 evidence dossier →2027 Chevrolet Traverse
- NHTSA complaint allegations
- 0
- Combined EPA economy
- 21–22 mpg/MPGe
- EPA configurations
- 2
- Annual EPA fuel-cost estimate
- $2,800–2,950
- Fuel labels
- Regular Gasoline
Most-reported component labelsNo component label indexed
Open the 2027 evidence dossier →Observed complaint-record difference
2027 has 20 fewer indexed complaint allegations than 2026.
This is not a rate or reliability finding. The counts have no sales, mileage, age or exposure denominator, and newer years have had less time to accumulate reports.Side by side
Chevrolet Traverse by year.
Complaint bars are scaled against this model’s own highest year, so they compare years with each other and with nothing else.
| Year | Complaints | Most-reported components | Combined MPG | EPA configs | Annual fuel cost | Dossier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | 0 | — | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2026 | 20 | electrical system 5forward collision avoidance 5engine 4 | 21–22 | 2 | $2,800–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2025 | 171 | service brakes 107forward collision avoidance 86electrical system 44 | 21–23 | 2 | $2,650–2,950 | Dossier → |
| 2024 | 130 | service brakes 51engine 31forward collision avoidance 27 | 20–23 | 4 | $2,650–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2023 | 85 | power train 27electrical system 18engine 17 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2022 | 95 | power train 41unknown or other 28electrical system 18 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2021 | 87 | electrical system 22unknown or other 19power train 13 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2020 | 219 | engine 68unknown or other 48power train 39 | 20–21 | 2 | $2,950–3,100 | Dossier → |
| 2019 | 401 | power train 164electrical system 110unknown or other 95 | 20–22 | 3 | $2,950–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2018 | 455 | power train 191unknown or other 102electrical system 100 | 20–22 | 3 | $2,950–3,450 | Dossier → |
| 2017 | 360 | air bags 263engine 25electrical system 22 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2016 | 291 | air bags 163power train 36engine 31 | 17–18 | 2 | $3,400–3,600 | Dossier → |
| 2015 | 313 | air bags 163engine 37electrical system 28 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2014 | 547 | air bags 259electrical system 126electronic stability control (esc) 117 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2013 | 162 | electrical system 53engine 45electronic stability control (esc) 43 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2012 | 354 | engine 115electronic stability control (esc) 84steering 62 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2011 | 608 | engine 204steering 165electronic stability control (esc) 103 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2010 | 668 | steering 334engine 178power train 68 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
| 2009 | 448 | steering 232power train 59engine 50 | 19 | 2 | $3,250 | Dossier → |
Evidence snapshot generated . “Not indexed” means NHTSA holds no complaint record matching this exact year, make and model — not that no fault occurred. Recall campaigns are not summarised here: NHTSA publishes no bulk recall dataset, and fetching them per year would take longer than the page should. Each year’s dossier shows its recalls in full, live from NHTSA.