NHTSA Safety Recalls
2008 Chevrolet Suburban Recalls
The 2008 Chevrolet Suburban has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on February 5, 2021.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2008 Chevrolet Suburban. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 213
- Crashes reported
- 3
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★★
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
in complaints
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2008 Chevrolet Suburban, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 21V050000
- Reported
- February 5, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 2,641,272
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2007, 2009 Suburban, 13 other models
Air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module
- Campaign
- 21V052000
- Reported
- February 5, 2021
- Vehicles affected
- up to 557,023
- Risk NHTSA names
- injury and death
- Same campaign
- also 2007, 2009 Suburban, 13 other models
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 10V240000
- Reported
- June 4, 2010
- Vehicles affected
- up to 1,365,070
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2007, 2009 Suburban, 16 other models
Electrical system
- Campaign
- 08V441000
- Reported
- August 28, 2008
- Vehicles affected
- up to 857,735
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2007 Suburban, 14 other models
2008 Chevrolet Suburban complaints by year
NHTSA has received 213 owner complaints about the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban, the newest on June 3, 2025. Of these, 3 describe a crash (1%); owners reported 11 injuries.
In complaints about the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban, the component group named most often is the air bags (45%), followed by the structure (14%) and the engine (12%).
2 of the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban's 4 recalls also concern the air bags.
Where 2008 Chevrolet Suburban owners gave the mileage (113 complaints), the median was 85,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Air Bags96
- Unknown Or Other38
- Structure30
- Engine25
- Electrical System22
- Latches/Locks/Linkages20
Complaints received, by year
| 2010 | 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | |
| 2012 | 8 | |
| 2013 | 9 | |
| 2014 | 14 | |
| 2015 | 11 | |
| 2016 | 29 | |
| 2017 | 40 | |
| 2018 | 22 | |
| 2019 | 24 | |
| 2020 | 16 | |
| 2021 | 9 | |
| 2022 | 3 | |
| 2023 | 4 | |
| 2024 | 1 | |
| 2025 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban peaked in 2017, when NHTSA received 40. 10% arrived between 2007 and 2011, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2008 vehicles, the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Chevrolet Suburban year in the same window: 13th highest of the 20 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 5/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 213 complaints about the 2008 Chevrolet Suburban are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Chevrolet Suburban by model year
Other 2008 Chevrolet models
Newest record on this page: June 3, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted