Chevrolet Trax

Owners filed 1,001 complaints across 13 model years of the Chevrolet Trax. The 2024 drew the most (180).

Model years13
Complaints1,001
Recalls24
Fires27
Deaths1

Which Chevrolet Trax years should you avoid?

Going by 1,001 owner complaints filed with NHTSA, the Chevrolet Trax years to avoid are 2015.

  • 20152.1× the usual share of fires, crashes and deaths for a car of its age (2 fires, 13 crashes, 1 death).

Too new to judge: 2025 and 2026. Complaints take a few years to arrive, so a new model year looks better than it is.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →

Every Chevrolet Trax model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
2026Too new19
0—3Air BagsRoutine
2025Too new102
1511Electrical SystemRoutine
2024180
189Electrical SystemRoutine
20229
0—1EngineRoutine
202125
015Electrical SystemRoutine
202098
025Electrical SystemRoutine
2019136
229EngineRoutine
2018102
222SuspensionRoutine
2017114
3310EngineRoutine
2016120
529EngineRoutine
2015Avoid96
7213Electrical SystemFatalities reported
20140
2———Routine
20130
1———Routine

Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.