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Model years to avoid

Chevrolet Trailblazer

What it says about you

Opinion

Two completely different vehicles wore this badge twenty years apart, and which one you have says everything about you.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

12 model years on record, 4,499 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2007 (fuel), 2006 (gauge), 2005 (gauge). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • fuel 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 47.1% of that year's complaints
  • gauge 2005, 2006, 2007 peak 47% of that year's complaints
  • shift park 2021, 2022 peak 43% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 4 complaints
  2. 2025 0 recalls 19 complaints
  3. 2024 0 recalls 32 complaints
  4. 2023 0 recalls 62 complaints
  5. 2022 1 recall 107 complaints
  6. 2021 4 recalls 189 complaints
  7. 2014 0 recalls 1 complaints
  8. 2009 0 recalls 28 complaints
  9. 2008 0 recalls 195 complaints
  10. 2007 fuel 782 complaints
  11. 2006 gauge 1,346 complaints
  12. 2005 gauge 1,734 complaints

What does a Chevrolet Trailblazer say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.