Recall Register

Chevrolet Trax: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 11 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Trax, model years 2013 to 2025. NHTSA has 103 complaints on file for this model line. 6 of the 9 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. 20131
  2. 20142
  3. 20157
  4. 20165
  5. 20173
  6. 20182
  7. 20192
  8. 20241
  9. 20251
Chevrolet Trax: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 Chevrolet Trax NHTSA page100%306,511
2024 Chevrolet Trax NHTSA page100%60,154
2019 Chevrolet Trax2761%112,970
2018 Chevrolet Trax2435%206,680
2017 Chevrolet Trax320175%3,846,842
2016 Chevrolet Trax530262%4,110,919
2015 Chevrolet Trax742367%4,133,045
2014 Chevrolet Trax200%3,957,734
2013 Chevrolet Trax NHTSA page100%317,572

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

152 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 Trax: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Unknown or Other118.418
Air Bags118.418
Steering118.418
Electrical System111.817
Service Brakes98.715
Engine92.114
Power Train59.29
Vehicle Speed Control46.17
Seat Belts39.56
Visibility/Wiper39.56

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Trax, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2016, with 3 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Trax, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2016, with 31 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 177 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Trax: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/trax/. 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 LLC

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 Trax model years have the most recall campaigns?
2015 with 7, 2016 with 5, 2017 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Trax model year has the most complaints?
The 2015 model year, with 42 of the 103 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Trax name?
Unknown or Other: 118.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 118.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 118.4 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Trax?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.