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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Blazer

What it says about you

Opinion

The name came back on something completely different, and opinions were had. You did not care about the name.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

12 model years on record, 722 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2021 (drive), 2020 (thermostat), 2019 (shift park). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • error 2019, 2020 peak 19.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 1 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 26 complaints
  3. 2024 1 recall 42 complaints
  4. 2023 2 recalls 41 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 45 complaints
  6. 2021 drive 125 complaints
  7. 2020 thermostat 211 complaints
  8. 2019 shift park 183 complaints
  9. 2008 0 recalls 5 complaints
  10. 2007 0 recalls 9 complaints
  11. 2006 0 recalls 19 complaints
  12. 2005 0 recalls 15 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Blazer say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.