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2015 Chevrolet Trax

This year drew an ordinary 94 complaints for a Chevrolet Trax — the model's median is 100. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.8% of them mention incline, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation.

First year of a new generation. The Chevrolet Trax was redesigned for 2015. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

What the complaints were about

• incline — 12.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: incline, operating, rolled, vehicle rolled.
• key — 11.7% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: key, ignition, drive really, driving turn.
• various — 9.6% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (3.2×). Owners wrote it as: various, recurred, driving various, various speeds.

Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.

What owners wrote

WHILE AT A STOP ON A SLIGHT INCLINE, THE VEHICLE ROLLED BACK. THE FAILURE RECURRED SEVERAL TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE REMEDY WAS UNABLE TO BE PROVIDED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FA…

while driving at various speeds, the steering wheel occasionally seized. There were no warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer, and the contact was informed that the vehicle was operating as intended. The vehicle was not diagnosed…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 19V652000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
• 16V651000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 15V162000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
• 16V422000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 17V437000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
• 15V146000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
• 16V257000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Chevrolet Trax was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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