2022 CHEVROLET TAHOE — Complaint #2169034
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NHTSA Complaint about SEATS:MID/REAR ASSEMBLY:HEAD RESTRAINT filed January 22, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2169034 (ODI reference 11712772) concerns a 2022 CHEVROLET TAHOE and was filed on January 22, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 1, 2025. The vehicle had 85,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as seats:mid/rear assembly:head restraint, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET TAHOE cohort independently describe similar seats:mid/rear assembly:head restraint failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2022 CHEVROLET TAHOE shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2022 Chevrolet Tahoe. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked with the second-row captain seats folded into the cargo position, while placing the seat in the seating position, the headrest failed to lock into the upright position. The contact stated that while an adolescent child was seated in the seat, the headrest poked her in the back of the head. The contact stated that the headrest was unsafe and failed to operate as designed. The vehicle was taken to a dealer to be diagnosed, and it was determined that an unknown part needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 85,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2169034 |
| ODI Number | 11712772 |
| Date Filed | January 22, 2026 |
| Failure Date | November 1, 2025 |
| VIN | 1GNSKNKD0NR |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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