2022 Chevrolet Blazer
This year drew an ordinary 45 complaints for a Chevrolet Blazer — the model's median is 26. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.9% of them mention daughter, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 45 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- daughter — 8.9% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (44.4×).
- having — 17.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.3% across the model's other years (5.4×).
- new — 22.2% of this year's complaints, against 7.2% across the model's other years (3.1×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
We were sold a new vehicle with known computer problems. The dealership knew of the defects but sold it to us anyway. They consider it a warranty issue. Chevrolet doesn’t seem to care.
Started smelling radiator fluid, took to dealership and the radiator had a hole in it. Dealership put a new one in. I drove it home and on my way home the transmission cooler line tapped out and the fluid drained all over the road. Dealership picked it up and…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V359000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Blazer was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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