Owner-reported complaints naming the interior system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming seats, latches, locks, linkages and interior fittings. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1997 Chevrolet Tahoe submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 9 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
UNEXPLAINED ILLUMINATION OF INTERIOR DOME AND MAP LIGHT, NOT SURE WAS THE REASON IS AT THIS POINT. THEY WILL TIME DELAY OFF THEN COME ON AGAIN BY THEMSELVES. FOLLOW UP IF PROBLEMS DETERIORATES FURTHER. *AK
INTERIOR DOOR HANDLE MECHANISM FAILED. *JB
CONSUMER STATES THAT THE DRIVERS SEAT RAILS ARE LOOSE OR MISSING. CONSUMER STATES WHEN DRIVING, THE SEAT MOVES AND THERE IS A POPPING NOISE. CONSUMER FEELS THIS IS UNSAFE BECAUSE SEAT COULD COME OFF DURING AN ACCIDENT.*AK.*MJ
THE DRIVES SEAT BOLTS I BELIEVE ARE BROKEN/GEARS GET STUCK IN PARK CONSTANTLY/RIGHT SIDE HEAD GASKET HAD TO BE REPLACED DUE TO MASSIVE LEAK OF COOLANT/SOUND SYSTEM MAKES WHINNIN GNOISE ON REAR SPEAKERS AND CD IS INOPERATIVE/DEFECTIVE*AK
ON 3/24/98 MY 1997 CHEVROLET TAHOU WAS 10 MONTHS OLD WITH 5400 MILES ON IT WHEN THE TRUCK CAUGHT FIRE UNDER THE DRIVER'S SIDE DASH WHILE I WAS DRIVING AND WAS TOTALLY DISTROYED. WHEN THE FIRE STARTED IT WAS LATE ON MY WAY HOME FROM A MOVIE WITH MY WIFE . WE SMELLED SMOKE AND I STOPPED BUT COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING. WE HAD GONE A LITTLE DISTANCE WHEN FIRE STARTED FALLING AT MY FEET, I RAN OFF THE ROAD AND HIT SOME SMALL TREES TO TRY TO STOP THE TRUCK THEN TRUNED ACROSS THE ROAD AND FINILLY HIT A TREE BIG ENOUGH TO STOP THE TRUCH. WHERE I GOT OUT AND HAD TO PULL MY WIFE OUT AND CALLED 911 ON MY CEL PHONE. MY WIFE HAD HIT HER HEAD AND WAS A LITTLLE OUT OF IT AND PASSED OUT ON THE GROUND. SHE PASSED OUT AGAIN JUST BEFORE THE MEDICS GOT THERE. THE TRUCK CONTENUIED TO BURN UNTILL THE FIRE DEPT. GOT THERE TO PUT IT OUT. GM CLAIMS THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY OTHER CLAIMS OF CHEVROLET TRUCKS CATCHING FIRE FROM THE DASH IN '97 OR ANY OTHER LATER YEAR TRUCKS AND WOULD NOT TAKE ANY RESPONCEALILITY FOR THE FIRE. IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD ANY THING LIKE THIS PLEASE LET ME KNOW. R.W. PARKER
DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT HAS BROKEN AWAY FROM ONE OF THE WELDS ON THE SEAT FRAME, WHICH CAUSES THE SEAT TO ROCK BACK AND FORTH. THE MANUFACTURER/DEALER ARE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM, WILL NOT REPAIR FREE OF CHARGE. *AK
VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A REAR COLLISION AT ABOUT 70MPH, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO SURGE FORWARD INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. UPON IMAPCT, THE AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY, AND THE SEATBACK COLLAPSED. THE MANUFACTURER WILL BE CONTATCED . *AK
DRIVER'S SEAT HAS MOVEMENT IN IT WHILE TRUCK IS IN MOTION. *AK
THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEATBACK BENDS TO THE RIGHT, CAUSING THE SEAT TO BE IN A COCKED POSITION. THE DEALER HAS REPLACED THE SEAT TWICE PRIOR TO THIS. ALSO REPLACED LEAKING MASTER CYLINDER/LEAKING POWER STEERING PUMP. *AK
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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