2018 Chevrolet Trax
This year drew an ordinary 100 complaints for a Chevrolet Trax — the model's median is 94. What they were about is the unusual part: 7% of them mention awd, against 0.8% 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 | 100 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 94 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 27.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- awd — 7% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the other years of this generation (9.3×). Owners wrote it as: awd, scan.
- unsafe — 9% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the other years of this generation (4×). Owners wrote it as: unsafe, unsafe drive, bump.
- power steering — 10% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: power steering, brakes drive, because car.
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
There are known issues with the control arms on these vehicles and I have had a clunk any time I hit the slightest bump or crack and it is especially bad when my wheels are turned. There is no recall linked to my vin but this is the exact issue that has been r…
My car always randomly doesn’t want to speed up. All the lights turn in and constantly tells me service power steering and brakes drive with care. It says something about electrical. I have taken it to Chevy they tell me they don’t know what is wrong with my c…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19V312000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 19V652000 SUSPENSION 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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