Other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban
1 fire 1 injury 2 of the 22 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 6 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
There are 22 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 31,000 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a fire and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 12 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2005 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 1999 carries the most reports, with 68; the 2001 has 22. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I have a suburban with wilderness le tires - p265 70r 16. Had a "flat tire" while driving. When I stopped to put air into the tire, it was totally mishaped with numerous bubbles in the rubber. Could find no apparent reason for the flat, and could still hear air escaping through the tire. My vehicle was assembled in mexico at the plant that is involved in the recalls. The recall covers tires from cars assembled in that plant in april and may of 2000. My car was assembled there in august of 2000. I believe that the recall should possibly be extended to a larger time frame. I am going to have all of my tires inspected.
On july 2nd 2003, we experienced a blowout on our 2001 suburban. The firestone steel-tex tires (245/75r16)only had 13571 miles on them and we had maintained the truck and tires according to the gm service schedule at the local dealership. We were hauling a trailer in the mountains; temperature was only 75 degrees. We experienced a weird bumpy feeling and then a loud explosion. The tire tread was separting totally from the sidewalls. We had nowhere to pull off the highway to change the tire; it was a very dangerous potentially, deadly situation. Gm is unwilling to help cover the costs for replacement tires, so far. They only were willing to replace the blown tire with the exact same firestone. We did not even request that the tires be replaced at no cost to us; we just want some help towards the purchase of another make of tires. Given the number of similar complaints on your website; I can't imagine that there's no inherent flaw in these tires.*ak
2001 chevrolet surburban - approx 17000 miles - months ago - received a recall on this surburban for the firestone wilderness tires - took it to dealer and they said that these tires looked okay. However - on 7/10/04 coming back from a 2 mile drive for groceries - (a major street) - heard a huge explosion sound - the truck swerved wildly - we were thrown and tossed but had seat belts and kids in carriers- going 35 miles per hour - my wife and children terrified and crying - and they were tossed side to side - wife in pain - son had huge belt bruise - I pulled my lower back - my baby seems okay. When it finally stopped in middle of road - I found thatrear left tire had completely blown out like a popped balloon - entire internal about 12 by 8 inches - v pattern - this is the same kind of damage that got all that news attention about firestone tires just blowing on the tire walls and roll overs on freeways. We were terrified when we realized this and knew that had we been going faster we would have nearly died! Went to my chevy dealer immediately at henderson chevy (spare on) - completely ignored my complaint. Please help !!!! We…
Also reported on the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban
ABS module or sensor failure
Parking brake failure
Fuel pump failure
Seat belt or retractor failure
Other brake problem
Other engine problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 22 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 22 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2001 Chevrolet Suburban?
22 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed