Recall Register

1985 Chevrolet Blazer: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer. NHTSA has 29 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 29 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

29 complaints, 35 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1985 Chevrolet Blazer: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Steering6
Engine and Engine Cooling6
Service Brakes, Hydraulic5
Power Train4
Seat Belts3
Tires2
Seats2
Suspension2
Structure2
Parking Brake1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 12.

Complaints that report a crash
6
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
3
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
1 Mar 2012

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 7 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA89003Engineering analysisREAR AXLE SHAFTSuspension7 Nov 198824 Aug 1990
PE88047Preliminary evaluationREAR AXLE FAILURESuspension19 Apr 19887 Nov 1988

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other 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
  45. 20260

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1985 Chevrolet Blazer: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/blazer/1985/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Chevrolet Blazer have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 40 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Blazer, model years 1969 to 2026. None of them names the 1985 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer name most often?
Steering: 6 of 35 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.