Recall Register

Chevrolet Blazer: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 40 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Blazer, model years 1969 to 2025. NHTSA has 7,448 complaints on file for this model line. 23 of the 44 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19691
  2. 19721
  3. 19731
  4. 19741
  5. 19760
  6. 19770
  7. 19780
  8. 19790
  9. 19800
  10. 19811
  11. 19821
  12. 19832
  13. 19841
  14. 19850
  15. 19860
  16. 19870
  17. 19881
  18. 19891
  19. 19901
  20. 19914
  21. 19922
  22. 19932
  23. 19942
  24. 19956
  25. 19966
  26. 19974
  27. 19983
  28. 19990
  29. 20004
  30. 20013
  31. 20022
  32. 20031
  33. 20041
  34. 20050
  35. 20060
  36. 20070
  37. 20080
  38. 20192
  39. 20203
  40. 20211
  41. 20221
  42. 20232
  43. 20241
  44. 20251
Chevrolet Blazer: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%731
2024 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%265
2023 Chevrolet Blazer200%8,754
2022 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%221
2021 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%470
2020 Chevrolet Blazer300%228,712
2019 Chevrolet Blazer200%227,943
2008 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page053%
2007 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page095%
2006 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page01911%
2005 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page0159%
2004 Chevrolet Blazer15030%183,922
2003 Chevrolet Blazer17745%183,922
2002 Chevrolet Blazer2241142%512,239
2001 Chevrolet Blazer3321190%668,544
2000 Chevrolet Blazer4582344%672,491
1999 Chevrolet Blazer0435257%
1998 Chevrolet Blazer3713421%34,067
1997 Chevrolet Blazer4767453%1,454,544
1996 Chevrolet Blazer61,152681%5,506,051
1995 Chevrolet Blazer61,223723%3,189,213
1994 Chevrolet Blazer2620366%1,126,489
1993 Chevrolet Blazer2511302%1,198,413
1992 Chevrolet Blazer2277164%1,467,113
1991 Chevrolet Blazer4221131%1,667,349
1990 Chevrolet Blazer13219%341,364
1989 Chevrolet Blazer13822%341,364
1988 Chevrolet Blazer14024%341,364
1987 Chevrolet Blazer03018%
1986 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page01911%
1985 Chevrolet Blazer02917%
1984 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page195%13,181
1983 Chevrolet Blazer242%30,493
1982 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page111%1,633
1981 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page111%364
1980 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page011%
1979 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page011%
1978 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page011%
1977 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page021%
1976 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page011%
1974 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%1,218,387
1973 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page111%1,218,387
1972 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%1,600
1969 Chevrolet Blazer NHTSA page100%502

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

10,107 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet Blazer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes, Hydraulic271.12,740
Visibility97.3983
Engine and Engine Cooling95.4964
Suspension69.7704
Power Train66.7674
Electrical System61.3620
Fuel System, Gasoline46.5470
Exterior Lighting38.7391
Air Bags32.3326
Seats28.9292

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Blazer, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1994, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Blazer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 926 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Blazer: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/blazer/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet Blazer model years have the most recall campaigns?
1996 with 6, 1995 with 6, 2000 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Blazer model year has the most complaints?
The 1995 model year, with 1,223 of the 7,448 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Blazer name?
Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 271.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Visibility: 97.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 95.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Blazer?
32 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.