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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Trax

What it says about you

Opinion

Cheap, small, and much better in its second generation than anyone expected. If yours is the new one, you got a bargain and you know it.

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

11 model years on record, 937 complaints filed. No year stood out against this model's own history — which means it has not drawn unusual complaints, not that it is a good car.

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.

  • key 2015, 2016 peak 11.7% of that year's complaints
  • goes 2020, 2025 peak 10.1% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 13 complaints
  2. 2025 0 recalls 79 complaints
  3. 2024 1 recall 165 complaints
  4. 2022 0 recalls 9 complaints
  5. 2021 0 recalls 23 complaints
  6. 2020 0 recalls 94 complaints
  7. 2019 2 recalls 133 complaints
  8. 2018 2 recalls 100 complaints
  9. 2017 3 recalls 111 complaints
  10. 2016 5 recalls 116 complaints
  11. 2015 7 recalls 94 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Trax 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.