2025 Chevrolet Trax
This year drew an ordinary 79 complaints for a Chevrolet Trax — the model's median is 100. What they were about is the unusual part: 20.3% of them mention rental, against 8% across the model's other years.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Trax, which began in 2024. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 79 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 100 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 29.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- rental — 20.3% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the model's other years (2.5×). Owners wrote it as: rental, felt, persisted, failure persisted.
- goes — 10.1% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: goes, blank.
- prior — 11.4% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the model's other years (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: prior, dealer independent, weather.
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 an undisclosed speed in hot weather less than a month after purchasing the vehicle brand new, the A/C became inoperable. The contact stated that the failure persisted. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed that the evapor…
I purchased my 2025 Chevrolet Trax on July 14, 2024 and on August 26, 2024 the evaporator coil had to be replaced by the Houston Levee GMX.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
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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