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Chevrolet Trax · 2019

2 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·19V312000·2019-04-18

    GM Recalls 2017-2019 Chevrolet Trax for Front Suspension Weld Defect

    General Motors is recalling 2017-2019 Chevrolet Trax vehicles because improperly welded front lower-control arm joints may break, causing partial separation and increased crash risk.

    Product
    CHEVROLET — CHEVROLET TRAX
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide
  • Severity pendingNHTSA·18V774000·2018-11-01

    GM Recalls 2019 Vehicles Due to Air Bag Module Defect

    General Motors is recalling 2019 Buick Encore, Chevrolet Spark, Traverse, and Trax vehicles because the air bag module may not be programmed correctly, preventing deployment in a crash.

    Product
    CHEVROLET — CHEVROLET, BUICK SPARK, TRAX, TRAVERSE, ENCORE
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

  • 20195/5

    2 trims tested for 2019; overall ratings can differ by trim.

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Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • PE20011 Preliminary Evaluation · fuel/propulsion system

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2024 · engine 35 complaints
    Includes 3 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2025 · electrical 28 complaints
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2019 · electrical 22 complaints
  • 2017 · engine 21 complaints
    Includes 2 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2016 · engine 21 complaints, median 77,000 mi
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.

Technical service bulletins

1,048 manufacturer service bulletins across 14 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2026: 4.4/5 · 13 complaints
  • 2025: 3.9/5 · 82 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2024: 3.7/5 · 169 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2022: 4.5/5 · 9 complaints · most complained-of: engine
  • 2021: 4.2/5 · 24 complaints · most complained-of: electrical

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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