2024 Chevrolet Blazer
This year drew an ordinary 42 complaints for a Chevrolet Blazer — the model's median is 26. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.1% of them mention airbags, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 42 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 26 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- airbags — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (35.7×). Owners wrote it as: airbags, wreck, deflate, wreck airbags.
- 2nd — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (15.1×).
- normally — 7.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.5% across the model's other years (13.1×).
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
The curtain airbags deployed at slow speed going over a speed bump. It shut off and would not start again. ONSTAR said it had been in an accident but it had not. The vehicle is at the dealership waiting on General Motors to do an inspection. There were no warn…
Driver Information Centre (DIC) and Infotainment go dark. This has happened twice now over the last 2 months. While driving suddenly the infotainment goes blank and loses the radio and then the DIC follows by going blank (dark). So I was left with no speed ind…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V869000 STRUCTURE 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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