2024 Chevrolet Trax
This year drew an ordinary 165 complaints for a Chevrolet Trax — the model's median is 94. What they were about is the unusual part: 7.9% of them mention block, against 0% across the model's other years.
First year of a new generation. The Chevrolet Trax was redesigned for 2024. 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.
| Complaints filed | 165 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 94 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 30 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- block — 7.9% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (39.4×). Owners wrote it as: block, towed local, side engine.
- black — 20% of this year's complaints, against 7.4% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: black, screens, speedometer, adaptive.
- rod — 9.1% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the model's other years (12.1×). Owners wrote it as: rod, engine block, catastrophic, hole engine.
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 driving at approximately 60mph, the engine suffered a catastrophic failure. According to the licensed Chevy service repair shop, the engine “threw a rod that resulted in a hole in the engine block.” The car immediately lost power while driving on the hig…
17k miles, head a loud pop sound, engine light came and all the oil and coolant was on the ground, engine was smoking. Had the vehicle towed and was told by the service department the connecting Rod failed which caused the catastrophic engine failure. Accordin…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V744000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
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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