Chevrolet Suburban 1500 vs GMC Terrain

Both cars' complete complaint records, side by side.

Read the totals carefully. NHTSA publishes no sales figures, so the car that sold more collects more complaints regardless of quality. The rows worth weighing are the proportions — the share of complaints that involved harm, and which part dominates.

Measure	Chevrolet Suburban 1500	GMC Terrain
Complaints on file	1,761	4,388
Model years covered	1994–2026	2010–2026
Worst model year	2007	2012
Best model year	1998	2022
Crashes reported	53	192
Fires reported	34	48
Injuries reported	56	156
Deaths reported	1	1
Most complained-about part	Brakes	Engine & Cooling
Share of complaints involving harm	8.2%	9%

Chevrolet Suburban 1500 by year

10 10 12 21 16 91 72 102 144 223 220 102 35 240 131 70 70 108 1 25 39 19

94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 21 23 25 26

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Brakes 375 21.3%

Electrical System 268 15.2%

Airbags 204 11.6%

Body & Structure 135 7.7%

Engine & Cooling 133 7.6%

Other & Unspecified 122 6.9%

Transmission & Drivetrain 79 4.5%

Fuel & Propulsion 79 4.5%

GMC Terrain by year

426 557 500 485 385 384 183 181 330 301 304 54 81 70 75 29 43

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Complaints filed with NHTSA, by model year. Bar colour is the FaultScore grade: A B C D F ungraded

What breaks

Engine & Cooling 1,273 29.0%

Windows, Mirrors & Wipers 505 11.5%

Transmission & Drivetrain 467 10.6%

Electrical System 349 8.0%

Other & Unspecified 307 7.0%

Brakes 292 6.7%

Fuel & Propulsion 278 6.3%

Airbags 168 3.8%