Third generation (C1XX, 2) · first-year watch
2025 Chevrolet Traverse, day 636
- 179complaints since Jan 4, 2025
- 0recalls
- 4involved a crash
- 5,400median miles at failure
Newest report Sep 25, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
Changed since August
- 6 new complaints in September, mostly about electrical, brakes and engine.
- Nothing filed yet on sticky steering, transmission failure, engine failure or fire.
- 11th most complaints of the 36 2025 models on this site.
What is your Traverse doing?
Each one opens a sheet built from the owner reports of that problem on the 2025 model year.
What's been reported
NHTSA's own component codes. One report can cite several.
- Brakes114
- Collision avoidance88
- Electrical46
- Other16
- Transmission and drivetrain13
- Engine13
- Structure9
- Backup camera8
Problems so far
- Brakes grind, pulse or wear early 113 reports
- Forward collision warning goes off or the camera drops out 38 reports
- Brakes on its own (automatic emergency braking) 15 reports
- Adaptive cruise or lane keeping misbehaves 12 reports
- Check engine light or misfire 11 reports
- Infotainment, screen or backup camera fails 11 reports
- Battery dies or the car will not start 8 reports
- Multiple warning lights come on at once 8 reports
Recent reports
“My chevy has 3000 miles on it and the service the brake Assist and service the ESC Information flashes on the screen and the Brake and ABS lights are lit up.”
Filed Sep 27, 2025
“The ABS break service warning appeared in the info screen. I have less than 3000 miles on it. The dealer said the car should not be driven. They had to order the parts, Master Cylinder, reservoir kit, etc. They also said there was a GM Bulletin on this issue.”
Filed Sep 12, 2025
“Suddenly with just over 8300 miles on the vehicle, lights for ABS, traction control, forward collision and parking brake all came on. The brake pedal started to feel spongy on the way to the dealership. The dealership replaced the master cylinder under warranty.”
Filed Aug 25, 2025
“New vehicle (bought in April 2025), vehicle has about 6400 miles. The ABS, forward collision braking system, traction and emergency brake services light all popped up (including alerts stating "Service ESC" and "Service Brake Assist"). Took to the dealership and was told the master brake cylinder needs replaced. They said the part is on back order and no eta.”
Filed Aug 13, 2025
At a glance
- Next to the 2024
- The 2025 is too new for a fair per-year comparison. It has 179 complaints so far; the 2024, on sale longer, has 137.
- Top problem
- One problem takes up much of the file: brake wear, named in 113 of the 179 complaints (63%). Brake wear tends to show up early. Of the 30 owners who gave a mileage for it, half were under about 5,000 miles and a quarter under about 3,000.
- Crash, fire and injury reports
- 6 of the 179 complaints (3%) report a crash, a fire or an injury, a little under the 6% typical of vehicles on this site. Counted separately (one report can carry more than one), 4 reports mention a crash and 3 people were hurt.
- Recalls behind the top problems
- There's no recall on file for this model year, so the problems above are owner complaints with no campaign behind them.
- When owners filed
- Every complaint so far came in during 2025. So far in 2026, 62 more have come in.
Service bulletins for the 2025 Chevrolet Traverse
Chevrolet filed 383 bulletins and other notices with NHTSA that list the 2025 Chevrolet Traverse. 27 of them deal with a problem owners have reported on this car. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
Brakes grind, pulse or wear early 1 bulletin · 113 complaints
Certain vehicles may have a condition in which the right front brake line contacts the vehicle’s body frame rail. Dealers will inspect for 5mm brake pipe clearance to vehicle frame rail. If no clearance, create proper clearance using controlled adjustment.
Brakes on its own (automatic emergency braking) 1 bulletin · 15 complaints
This service bulletin provides information for the technicians to use a Customer Concern Verification sheet to facilitate the questions needing to be answered by the customer regarding Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) issues.
Adaptive cruise or lane keeping misbehaves 4 bulletins · 12 complaints
This technical bulletin provides repair information to correct a customer concern of Steering Wheel Oscillation while in Super Cruise Mode.
This technical bulletin provides a procedure to correct the condition of Super Cruise Unavailable Message with DTC U1615 Set or Stored.
2 more on this problem
This Preliminary information communicates a vehicle may come to the dealer with a complaint of a Super Cruise Unavailable message. The tech is instructed to check for trouble codes.
This Preliminary information communicates that a vehicle may come to the dealer with a complaint of the steering wheel vibrating while driving with super cruise activated only. The dealer technician is advised not to perform any repairs.
Check engine light or misfire 9 bulletins · 11 complaints
This Preliminary information communicates there could be an electrical connection concerns at the high pressure fuel pump, and may set any combnation of diagnostic trouble codes, P0089 P0090 P00C6 P163A and / or P228C.
This bulletin provides a procedure to program the PCM to latest software to correct a condition of cold start rough idle w/DTC P050D.
7 more on this problem
This bulletin provides a procedure to replace the fuel injectors and perform a pcm software update to confirm if the issue of cold start rough idle has subsided.
This Preliminary information communicates when diagnosing P050D cold start misfire runs rough, if any fuel injectors need to be replaced, all the fuel injectors must be ordered and replaced at the same time due to fuel injector flow rates being matched.
This technical bulletin provides repair information to correct a customer concern of Engine RPO LK0 with DTC P062B Set.
This Preliminary information communicates the possibility of the engine running rough cold and failing dtc P050D.
This bulletin provides a procedure to replace the cylinder head if coolant has been found leaking trough porous areas of the casting.
This service bulletin provides inspection/diagnosis/correction information on a cold start misfire and/or rough idle and DTC P0300 that may also be set.
This service bulletin advises of a new fuel injection cleaner kit used for decarbonizing the intake valves to correct conditions of rough idle, Crank no start, extended crank or misfire, MIL with DTCs, and explains how Top Tier fuels should be used to reduce ...
Infotainment, screen or backup camera fails 11 bulletins · 11 complaints
• Fixes to help protect battery life. • Improvements to provide more accurate speed limit detection on the driver’s display. • Improvements to the availability of driver assistance features and fewer notifications or warnings.
This preliminary information is to communicate to technicians that a sequence in programming has changed for these vehicles with this RPO. Failure to follow this sequence will result in a reversed, reverse camera image and cannot be corrected once programmed.
9 more on this problem
• Improves how center display adjusts to lighting changes. • Improved warnings when a key is missing. • Better tuning for interior lighting in Stealth mode. • Improvements to automatic low beam headlamp logic.
This Preliminary information communicates the active safety features and/or cameras are inoperative or unavailable after a 12 volt battery replacement or battery charge after a low voltage condition.
This preliminary information communicates to dealership technicians various radio concerns are all related to software and Engineering is currently working on a design improvement.
This technical bulletin provides repair information to correct a customer concern of Radio Software Update W23E-178.1.2-M174-SQBR6-93.3.
This Preliminary information communicates to GM technicians to not replace any parts at this time if they come across this concern to reset the radio at this time. The PI will be updated or replaced with TSB once a determination has been made.
This Preliminary information communicates to GM technicians to not replace any parts at this time if they come across this concern. It is due to software and will need to reprogram the A11 radio module to correct this.
This Preliminary information communicates programming the Image Processing module and possible replacing the drivers monitoring camera for concerns with Supercruise Unavailable and Driver Attention Assist Unavailable and Drowsy Driver Feature Disabled.
This preliminary information discusses a possible scenario where the rear camera signal cuts out intermittently due to a software concern.
This Preliminary information communicates to check the drivers monitoring camera for a B1DD0 SYM57 or B0126 SYM82 setting with no other DTCs.
Battery dies or the car will not start 1 bulletin · 8 complaints
This bulletin provides a procedure on how to check for a battery drain utilizing the Picoscope and how to measure the load on the system that may be causing a drain.
NHTSA investigations
Electronic brake module component failure. Open.
NHTSA summary
Recalls
Whether your car is included depends on its VIN. Check yours at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
No recalls on file for this model year.
Guide Seeing this on your own car? How to file a complaint with NHTSA
The log
Complaints by the month NHTSA received them, newest first. Blue bars mark a month with a recall or an investigation.
Questions
What is the most common problem on the 2025 Chevrolet Traverse?
Brake wear, with 113 of the 179 complaints. Owners who gave a mileage for it put the median at about 5,000 miles.
At what mileage do 2025 Chevrolet Traverse problems start?
Of the 45 complaints that give a mileage, a quarter came by about 3,000 miles and half by about 5,000.
How many 2025 Chevrolet Traverse complaints involve a crash, fire or injury?
6 of them (3%). The typical vehicle on this site is at 6%.
Is there a recall for brake wear on the 2025 Chevrolet Traverse?
No recall on file for the 2025 Chevrolet Traverse is on the same system as brake wear. Another recall may still cover your car, so check its VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.