Recall Register

2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer. NHTSA has 193 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names 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 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 193 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

193 complaints, 263 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.

  • 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer
  • All 2008 vehicles
2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2008 TrailblazerAll 2008 vehiclesTrailblazer, all yearsMentions
Electrical System254.8140.6255.467
Air Bags125.5156.241.333
Engine79.8672721
Exterior Lighting68.438.58418
Seat Belts45.69.812.812
Engine and Engine Cooling45.625.238.212
Steering41.883.519.911
Power Train3873.578.610
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)3818.4810
Vehicle Speed Control30.439.621.88

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 26.

Complaints that report a crash
10
Complaints that report a fire
11
Injuries in the complaints
9
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
14 May 2026

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 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2014, with 34 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
RQ17002Recall queryLoss of HeadlightsExterior Lighting / Headlights24 Apr 201729 Mar 2021

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. 19990
  2. 20000
  3. 20010
  4. 200212
  5. 20038
  6. 20042
  7. 20052
  8. 20068
  9. 20075
  10. 20080
  11. 20090
  12. 20140
  13. 20214
  14. 20221
  15. 20230
  16. 20241
  17. 20251
  18. 20261

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. 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/trailblazer/2008/. 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 Trailblazer have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 29 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Trailblazer, model years 1999 to 2026. None of them names the 2008 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer name most often?
Electrical System: 67 of 263 component mentions, or 254.8 per 1,000. For all 2008 vehicles the figure is 140.6 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.