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2025 Chevrolet Trax

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

79

Complaints

9

Crashes

4

Fires

12

Injuries

0

Deaths

Owners of the 2025 Chevrolet Trax have filed 79 safety complaints with NHTSA between June 2024 and August 2026. The most complained-about system is the electrical system, named in 30 of them (38%). The typical failure was reported at 5,000 miles, the median across the 9 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 79.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 30 38%
UNKNOWN OR OTHER 19 24%
ENGINE 14 18%
FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE 11 14%
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM 7 9%
AIR BAGS 6 8%
LANE DEPARTURE 6 8%
POWER TRAIN 5 6%
STRUCTURE 5 6%
VISIBILITY/WIPER 4 5%
EXTERIOR LIGHTING 3 4%
SEAT BELTS 3 4%

When the complaints arrived

By the year NHTSA received them, which is not the year the failures happened. They peaked in 2025 at 47.

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.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

3 injured

My 2025 Chevy TRAX is a safety and illeagll intrusion problem, by allowing fab key kit to bought and clone a 2025 electrical safety vehicle locks, doors, windows which makes this vehicle electrical locking system useless and allows anybody to enter and vandalize the interior and causing a HEALTH HAZARD when entered by anybody other than the PAID OWNERS. This vehicle should be on a " Safety Alert" and electrical need to be made.

NHTSA complaint 11702056. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

2 injured · crash · towed · 6,000 miles

The contact owned a 2025 Chevrolet Trax. The contact stated while driving 35 MPH with cruise control mode disengaged, and approaching the red traffic light, the brake pedal was depressed. The contact stated that the vehicle responded temporarily, and then the vehicle accelerated unintendedly. There was no warning light illuminated. The contact stated that he shifted to park(P) in the hope that the vehicle would stop, but the vehicle failed to stop and the engine revved louder, causing the vehicle to crash into two occupied vehicles in the intersection of a highway. The air bags deployed. It was unknown whether there was a warning light illuminated after the crash. The contact sustained

NHTSA complaint 11662172, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

AIR BAGS

2 injured · crash · towed

On [xxx] My cousin, [XXX] , and I were on highway [XXX] and were about to exit when an ambulance exited onto the highway ahead causing the traffic to suddenly stop. As it stopped, I hit my brake, which usually jolts when I hit it but it didn't this time, the brake didn't feel the same it felt like my car wasn't stopping. The warning that usually goes off didn't go off either. My car hit a Jeep that was in front of me at a speed of about 55 to 60 mph yet none of my airbags diployed. We smelled fire and saw some smoke but couldn't see over the hood that had been bent up, both of our seatbealts had been stretched out so that when we took them off, we could not put them back on, and the

NHTSA complaint 11694377, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

AIR BAGS

2 injured · crash · towed

On October 8, 2025 My cousin, [XXX] , and I were on highway Mile 113, 65 North and were about to exit when an ambulance exited onto the highway ahead causing the traffic to suddenly stop. As the traffic stopped, I hit my brake, which usually jolts when I hit it but it didn't this time, the brake didn't feel the same, the brake was soft and it felt like my car wasn't stopping. The warning red light that usually goes off didn't and I hit a Jeep at a speed of about 55 to 60 mph yet none of my airbags diployed. We smelled fire and saw some smoke come in from the vents but couldn't see over the hood that had been bent up, both of our seatbealts had been stretched out so that when we took them

NHTSA complaint 11700930, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Faulty air condenser. Condenser had a hole.

NHTSA complaint 11756122. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

UNKNOWN OR OTHER
The infotainment system CarPlay repeatedly crashes mid-drive. Losing mapping information and attempting to pull them up again while driving is unsafe.

NHTSA complaint 11754819. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ENGINE

fire

Saw smoke coming from an under the hood, pulled over opened hood and there were flames all across the top of the engine. Immediately evacuated the vehicle within seconds the vehicle was engulfed in flames and exploded several times. Total loss.

NHTSA complaint 11754170. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
On my way to work the car overheated causing me to be stranded in the middle of no where without cell service. When it got to the dealership to repaire the car, they stated that it was a cylinder head. The dearship had my car a little over a month for repairs, the dealership did finally give me a loaner for the last week of the repairs but I lost work and a client due to not having transportation. A week after receiving the car back I still had problems with a check engine light coming on occasionally with loss of power and it would go away. I did not trust the car at all.

NHTSA complaint 11749271. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
using adaptive cruise control if a car comes in front of you from the side street etc the car can go from 55 to 30 in seconds and if someone is following too close or not paying attention that car can hit you in the rear . on curvy roads a car coming the other way will almost stop the car quickly annoying the driver behind you

NHTSA complaint 11747882. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Was traveling to head towards the beach and all of a sudden the whole dash starts glitching then goes out for about 10-25 seconds then cuts back on like the car is powering back on. I thought maybe it had something to do with my daughter touching the radio. Well I continue to travel get down the road about another 45mins and it does it again. So I decide to turn the radio off, turn off the A/C, call the dealership and turn around and go home. Dealership checks the car, states it may have been the radio. But how when the car seem to lag/ lose power for a few seconds. That's a safety issue. Car can cut off and cause catastrophic damages. I only drive 3 miles to my job daily so I don't know if

NHTSA complaint 11743780, quoted in part. Filed by an owner and not verified by NHTSA or by us.

Compare

Other years of the Chevrolet Trax

Model year Complaints Recalls Deaths
2024 165 1 —
2020 94 0 —
2019 133 2 —
2018 100 2 —
2017 111 3 —
2016 116 5 —
2015 94 7 1

Other 2025 Chevrolet models

Equinox 212 Traverse 171 Equinox EV 161 Silverado 1500 84 Tahoe 41 Colorado 27 Suburban 1500 27 Blazer 26

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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