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Chevrolet · NHTSA safety record

2024 Chevrolet Trailblazer

Every safety complaint, recall and defect investigation the US government holds on this vehicle.

32

Complaints

3

Crashes

0

Fires

0

Injuries

0

Deaths

Owners of the 2024 Chevrolet Trailblazer have filed 32 safety complaints with NHTSA between March 2024 and March 2026. The most complained-about system is the electrical system, named in 11 of them (34%). The typical failure was reported at 10,000 miles, the median across the 4 complaints that gave an odometer reading.

No recall campaign was matched to this year, make and model. That is not the same as a clean vehicle: recalls are issued against production ranges, and the only reliable check is your own VIN.

What owners report

Complaints naming each system. One complaint can name several, so these add up to more than 32.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 11 34%
ENGINE 9 28%
POWER TRAIN 7 22%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 5 16%
SERVICE BRAKES 4 13%
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 3 9%
LANE DEPARTURE 3 9%
SEAT BELTS 2 6%
EXTERIOR LIGHTING 1 3%
SEATS 1 3%
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 1 3%
STEERING 1 3%

When the complaints arrived

By the year NHTSA received them, which is not the year the failures happened. They peaked in 2025 at 14.

2024 2025 2026
2024 to 2026, the last of them a part year

In owners' own words

Quoted from NHTSA's complaint file. These are unverified accounts by the people who filed them, not findings of fault.

LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST

crash · towed

I was stopped at a red light. When the light turned green I entered the intersection, the LKA system began alerting me and pulling the vehicle towards the oncoming left traffic turn lane. I took my foot off the accelerator and reached over to shut the LKA off as it was pulling my vehicle. The incident resulted in distracting me resulting in my car hitting a car in the oncoming left turn lane.

NHTSA complaint 11698171. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

crash

My daughter was stopped at a stoplight and the auto-stop engaged. The light turned green and she began to accelerate when all of the error lights on the dash lit up, then the dash info system and infotainment system went out followed by the engine turning off and not restarting. While all of this happened, the vehicle behind me struck my daughter’s car. Luckily it was at a low rate of speed and no one was injured. I took the car to the dealer and after nearly a week of testing they found nothing wrong and found no error codes in the system. They ere not able to replicate the problem. However, once we got the vehicle back a similar instance happed again, except just the dash info system and

NHTSA complaint 11621360, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

POWER TRAIN

crash

Almost every time I shift from park to drive and take my foot off the brake my car jolts forward a couple feet/inches to take off by itself in a manner that it should not. This has been going on since I got the car brand new and have had it just over a little over a year. I try to be as careful as I can with it and mentioned it to the Chevrolet dealership that does all my maintenance on my car. They are not sure what is causing the issue, but on 05/24/2025 I was attempting to get ready to get gas and needed to pull up slightly a little bit more and when I shifted to drive my car jolted forward and hit another vehicle. No damage was done to the other vehicle or mine, and the gentleman was

NHTSA complaint 11662986, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

SERVICE BRAKES
Brakes squeal when rotors and pads are cold. Problem disappears when they warm after driving

NHTSA complaint 11727823. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
My 2024 Chevy Trailblazer Fully Shutdown the engine and everything at a Stoplight With the Start/stop on leaving me to put pack into park and restart vehicle!!

NHTSA complaint 11723125. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

POWER TRAIN
The 2024 Trailblazer developed a problem going into reverse at less than 17500 miles in December of 2025 when my daughter came home for Christmas. It would slam into reverse or freeze and then shift harshly. The selling dealer replaced the valve body in the transmission while it was in for normal service, the valve body was on order for 30 days in January. After I delivered the car back to my daughter on January 26, 2026 which was 4 hours away in Northern Virginia the transmission continued to freeze and slam into reverse. The selling dealer advised not to drive it back to Virginia Beach, VA. The car was then dropped off at an Arlington, VA dealer and was there for 9 days. The servicing

NHTSA complaint 11721070, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ENGINE
My 2024 trailblazer lt's engine light came on about a month ago. I took it to a local dealership and they said it was caused by CCND. Diagnosed code P0128 in pass/fail status. They test drove it to get light to come on and it was unable to duplicate it. They cleared the codes. A month later it came back on. I took it to my dealership and they said they have to take the entire front end off to replace the engine coolant bypass valve. They said that the electronic component was going bad. This car isn't even 2 yrs old. This should not be happening.

NHTSA complaint 11711444. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

EXTERIOR LIGHTING
Unit used as a rental from Avis. Night time driving will cause on-coming traffic to flash high beams while my lights are in low beam mode. This is a daily problem with a multitude of on-coming drivers as the LED headlights are perceived to be extra bright / blinding.

NHTSA complaint 11709501. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

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Other years of the Chevrolet Trailblazer

Model year Complaints Recalls Deaths
2023 62 0
2022 107 1
2021 189 4

Other 2024 Chevrolet models

Every Chevrolet on this site — 298 vehicles, 747 recall campaigns and 5 open investigation s.

If this is your car and a dealer keeps failing to fix it, your state's lemon law may require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. What each state asks for , read from the statutes.

Where these numbers come from

A complaint is one owner's account and has not been verified by NHTSA or by us. A vehicle with more complaints is not necessarily worse: models that sold in larger numbers collect more of them. How this is counted.

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