2007 Chevrolet Suburban problems
NHTSA has received 359 complaints about the 2007 Chevrolet Suburban, and 41% of them involve air bags. Next are body & structure (12%) and engine (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 359 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 41% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 4 and 8
- Injuries and deaths
- 63 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 80,000 miles 181 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 7 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 17 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 23 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 39 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 24 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 13 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 11 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 14 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 16 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 8 |
| 200k+ miles | 9 |
What the data shows
Of the 181 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 80,000 miles. For air bags specifically, the median reported mileage is about 121,000 miles (37 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 4 complaints mention a crash; 8 complaints mention a fire; 63 injuries reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2007 ranks 22nd most-complained-about out of 35 model years of the Chevrolet Suburban with enough data (95 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 4 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
We have a 2007 chevrolet suburban the second row middle seatbelt just unraveled, 2 weeks later the 3rd row middle seatbelt unraveled. We took the car to the dealership explaining 3 yrs ago we had a GMC yukon and we were in a severe crash. The yukon was only 3 yrs old at the time and the front middle seatbelt failed and the second row middle seatbelt failed seriously injuring our family. They refuse to address the question are these the same seatbelts I don't believe this is a coincidence. Can someone look into it.
We were driving home when a person ran a red light and hit us. We were crossing an intersection about 15 miles an hour and they hit the front part of our suburban. Everything was damaged the hood , and everything inside the hood sustained damage. There was a liquid that was leaking but I am unaware of the substance. The person that hit us must have been going about 40-60 miles an hour. After they fled the seen police mentioned that their air bags were deployed.
2007 suburban vehicle came to a stop 25ft behind several stopped cars at a red light. Without provocation, the vehicle strongly accelerated/surged forward while the brakes were engaged. Driver continued to attempt to stop the vehicle by repeatedly hitting the brake pedal, but with no success. Passenger in vehicle reported seeing drivers foot on the brake. Vehicle accelerated forward into the back of another vehicle which was then pushed into a third. All three vehicles suffered damage.
My suburban wont shift or move in drive or in 3rd. It will go in to 2nd and 1st and reverse. It just revs up when in drive. I was reading online and found several other people to have the same problem with this vehicle. This should be a recall on the transmission or defective parts causing this in the transmission.
Dash board cracked severely, passenger airbag is probably affected. If airbag went off prices of dash or something might be flown with it.