Other wheel or tire problem on the 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe
2 crashes 2 injuries 4 of the 12 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.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 100,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 125,000 miles, from 11 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 5,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 130,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 127,222 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
27% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,778 miles | 33,246 miles | 101,000 miles | 123,756 miles | 131,000 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, 2 a crash and 2 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 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 240,000 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 29; the 2005 has 12. 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.
(1) purchased new 2005 chevrolet taho with firestone willderness le (p265/70r-16 bw) tires 12/30/04 from bill heard chevrolet, 7224 east mcdowell road, scottsdale, az 85257. With less than 2000 miles on vehicle same tire (right rear) started losing air pressure. 1st time took to dealer they said nothing wrong. 2nd time fradulentlly charged me $17.07 to reppair. Warranty book, part #05chevwar a first edition says bumper-to-bumper (includes tires) for 3yers or 36,000 miles. Vehicle only 3 months old and less than 4,000 miles. After paying for repairs still have same problem. Same tire (right rear) still loses air. (2) luckily no failure yet due to warning light on vehicle that alerts you to check tire pressure before tire blows out due to underinflation. (3). After 2 trips to dealer nothing has been done to correct failure.*ak
While driving a rock penetrated the tread and casing of the tire causing it to go flat. *** no answer required*** *ts updated 11/7/2005 - the vehicle was purchased with an off-road package which included goodyear p265/70r25 m&s on-off road tires. The consumer was driving on an unpaved road when a rock penetrated the tread and casing of the tire causing it to go flat. The vehicle was taken to a goodyear dealer and the tire was replaced (5300 miles). The tire tech stated that he has replaced many of these tires. A little over a week later the consumer was driving on the same unpaved road when a second tire was penetrated by a rock and went flat (6492 miles). The vehicle was taken to the dealer were all four tire were replaced with a different brand. The consumer feels that these tire are unsafe for use on unpaved roads and request reimbursement for the cost incurred due to the faulty tires. *nm
The service tire monitor warning displayed frequently and reportsed that a tire pressure reading was unavailable. This happened since day 1. Each time the vehicle has been brought in for service, the problem has been reported, and an attempt to correct has been performed. Two years later, after at least 5 attempts to correct the problem, it still existed. Thiswas a major annoyance as each time the monitor waring displayed it caused you to inspect the tires , and check pressures to ensure proper inflation, especially since tires were made by firestone. *ak
Also reported on the 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe
Instrument cluster or gauge failure
Other electrical problem
Other body or interior problem
Liftgate, tailgate or trunk failure
Other powertrain problem
Fuel gauge or level sensor failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 12 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 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe?
Across 11 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 100,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 125,000 miles. 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 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 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