GM pulled the sheets off the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and 2025 Chevy Suburban only recently, revealing that the long-awaited refresh to the Bow Tie’s twin full-size SUVs has finally arrived with the debut of the 2025 model year.
Now, GM Authority has learned that the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban also get a new feature remedying a significant taillight issue with the pre-refresh SUV models, finally modernizing the lighting technology used at the rear of the vehicle.
It’s unusual for modern-day vehicles in the price range of the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban to lack LED lights anywhere in their exterior or interior lighting setup. Introducing full LED lighting on the sport-utility vehicles’ 2025 model year provides a welcome modernization. Now, the entire taillight cluster of both refreshed models has been overhauled to full LED with an animation.
Before the 2025 changes, both the 2021 through 2024 Chevy Tahoe and 2021 through 2024 Chevy Suburban featured LED headlights. However, the taillight clusters for this model year range of the fifth-generation Tahoe and twelfth-generation Suburban continued to use incandescent bulbs for the turn signals. This detail can be seen in GM Authority’s video tour of the SUVs’ lighting at the four-minute, 45-second mark.
As a reminder, the 2025 Chevy Tahoe was unveiled by GM late in 2023. It revealed new exterior styling cues, available 24-inch wheels for the RST and High Country trims, a standard 17.7-inch-diagonal infotainment screen in the cockpit, and many other changes and updates from the 2024 model year.
The revised powertrain lineup retires the 3.0L I6 LM2 turbodiesel Duramax engine, replacing it with the 3.0L I6 LZ0 turbodiesel Duramax engine that cranks out 305 horsepower and 495 pound-feet of torque. The models will continue to offer the naturally aspirated 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine rated at 355 horsepower and 383 pound-feet of torque, and the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine developing 420 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque.
All engines will continue to be mated to the GM 10-speed automatic transmission.
As a reminder, the Chevy Tahoe and Suburban are both underpinned by the GM T1 platform, and production of both models continues at the GM Arlington plant in Texas.
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Love to build and order a new 25 Tahoe or Yukon. Keep us updated on build date availability.
I don’t think the Order Guide for the 25 model year has been released yet. I’m told summer 24 we should see order banks open because they are going to be retooling Arlington Assembly in the summer for this new build.
About time! It was ridiculous that the PREVIOUS gens didn’t have LEDs much less these! Glad to see GM finally rectifying that!
Here is the problem. GM is trying to follow the pack with LED lighting without thinking it out completely. They ard only looking at the pepole who drive in warm weather. I traded in my 2919 for a 2023 Yukon and the first time I was In a SNOW STORM I had to stop 4 times on 35 Mike’s as the head lights and fog lights were completely iced and snowed over. NO heat from thd lights to melt the snow. Real dangerous. A real lack of safety. I hope the gouvernment makes them do a recall and install heaters or convert to HID. Also a tail light goes in 4-5 years from now with no warranty and you have to replace the complete unit 600-800$ each. WOW not right
Maybe you have to put high beams. The headlights are perfectly bright enough. Such a silly thing for them to recall- I understand it is an issue, but maybe you have to use the controls at the brightest.
As for the taillight cost, it will not be too different compared to that of a Seqouia or a Tundra, which have even MORE complex designs..
Here is the problem. GM is trying to follow the pack with LED lighting without thinking it out completely. They ard only looking at the pepole who drive in warm weather. I traded in my 2919 for a 2023 Yukon and the first time I was In a SNOW STORM I had to stop 4 times on 35 Mike’s as the head lights and fog lights were completely iced and snowed over. NO heat from thd lights to melt the snow. Real dangerous. A real lack of safety. I hope the gouvernment makes them do a recall and install heaters or convert to HID. Also a tail light goes in 4-5 years from now with no warranty and you have to replace the complete unit 600-800$ each. WOW
Ain’t progress great? Going from a $2.50 light bulb to a probable $500 “assembly”…
Imagine they’ll be animated with a computer chip in them. Today’s fashion you know.
In our workplace fleet the taillights are considered a consumable. Can’t WAIT for the over-engineered LEDs to become standard.
Toyota is going that direction as well, from where they are now.
SMH no pictures in article to show us , just all front end pics but talking about taillights, smh.
Plus LEDs costs more and gotta be order. Also in winter they are a big problem because no heat.