2016 Chevrolet Trax
This year drew an ordinary 116 complaints for a Chevrolet Trax — the model's median is 94. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.8% of them mention seat, against 3% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Trax, which began in 2015 and ran to 2022. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 116 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 94 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- seat — 13.8% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (4.6×).
- key — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 1.5% across the other years of this generation (6.3×). Owners wrote it as: key, car park, major safety.
- belt — 9.5% of this year's complaints, against 3.6% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: belt, seat belt, passenger seat, reservoir.
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
WHEN I TURN LEFT, THE RIGHT SIDE MAKES A POPPING NOISE AROUND THE BALL JOINT. RESERVOIR COOLANT TANK LEAKS, AND NO TEMPATURE GUAGE.. THERE IS NO WAY TO TELL IF MY CAR OVER HEATS UNTIL THE LIGHT COMES ON AND I HAVE TO PULL OVER THEN? I HAVE NEVER SEEN A VEHICLE…
Passenger side air bag light does not indicate that the airbag is on. This happens very often when you sit in the passenger seat and fasten the seat belt. This has been happening for several weeks.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V652000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V422000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V257000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Trax 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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