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2012 Chevrolet Traverse cruise control problems

37 complaints about cruise control have been filed for the 2012 Chevrolet Traverse, which is 6% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
37 6% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
94,000 miles 32 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When cruise control problems show up

Cruise control complaints by mileage, 2012 Chevrolet Traverse Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 94,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 2 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 2 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 4 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 7 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 8 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 3 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 2 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 94,000 miles
Based on 32 complaints that include mileage. 22% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles2
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles2
60k to 80k miles4
80k to 100k miles7
100k to 120k miles8
120k to 140k miles3
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles2
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 32 cruise control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 94,000 miles, and 22% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 chevrolet traverse. The contact stated that after shifting into drive, the vehicle erroneously accelerated and crashed into a telephone pole. The contact sustained back, hip, and knee injuries while the passenger sustained lung contusions from the air bag deployment. A police report was not filed. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted about the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 52,000.

Reported at 52,000 miles, January 2014 CrashInjury

While driving ABS light,traction control light,and service stabitrack came brakes started acting funny and would not accelerate puttered and finally settled out shut off at house and the truck started up and did the same thing

Reported at 138,000 miles, November 2019

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