Chevrolet Trax owners have reported 6 seats related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 1 most common seats problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's seats (6 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Seats problems |
Water has been pooling in the wheel well under trunk of my car undetected due to the covering overlap. Water has been leaking due to the rain from outside in. My back seats were wet, my spare tire was flooded, and a smell has began to set in my car. My cars speed has been slower to increase which can put my response time to dangerous situations slower. I have an appointment on the 10th of January to have my car looked at and I have began a claim with Chevrolet. No warning signs were made present. I had cleaned out a few gallons of water from my trunk last night and again this morning my car was filling up with water due to the rainy season. This website is not letting me upload files.
Since the vehicle was purchased, the driver seat's height has slowly been lowering itself over time. After a typical week of driving over an hour per day, the seat is noticeably lower (~2 inches) than when I started. I can raise the height manually again, but this process repeats itself, becoming quite annoying. I brought the vehicle to the dealership, but they claim they were unable to recreate the issue. I called the customer support phone number (800-222-1020) and the rep stated he could not help me further since no service bulletin about the issue could be found. Call reference # xxx.
I purchased a new 2019 chevy Trax after trading in my 2016 Trax. I had been driving it for about two weeks when my radio, turn signal, phone calls and onstar (not sure about back up camera) was affected by some glitch. The sound went away from my turn signal, all the radio channels, no sound but could receive phone calls and tried to call onstar per sales rep to do a diagnosis but the call could not be heard. The onstar call could not be disconnected. The eventual fix to this was I took it to the dealership and the sales rep did a factory reset in the settings. This brought it back. I had a similar issue in my 2016 Trax that blacked out the screen completely and took away any sound from it and my signal. It eventually came back after a shop played around with it. Second issue which fell under a warranty repair was that I noticed not long after buying that there was a high pitched squeal coming from my drivers seat when stopping and hitting bumps. I thought at first the springs needed breaking in. It ended up being the bolt at the back right of the seat that attached it to the floor. Come to find out it was crooked and completely stripped which was causing the seat to bounce around. It was also found out during repair that a second bolt was starting to do the same thing. This was a brand new vehicle straight from the factory. I was told by the service dept that vehicles from the factory aren't state inspected. This seems to be an unsafe method.
In passenger front seat when someone is sitting there the seatbelt will just undo on its own at times. Also the person will weight over 100lbs and the air bag light indicator will go to on and off.
Roughly at 40,000 miles driver side seat began to raddle badly. When I got out of the car the whole seat lifted up. I looked under the seat and noticed a lift mechanism that raised the seat or lowered it was broken off and now it's just flopping away. If I brake to hard the whole seat pushes me forward and wedges me in between it and the seat belt.
This involves the drivers bottom seat assy. Within 10,000 of driving this vehicle, noticed the foam padding was breaking down on the left side of the seat cushion. When this occurs, you end up sitting on a round steel tube which is part of the seat frame. I was able to have the gm dealer replace under warranty, within approx. 10,00 miles again the seat cushion has degraded to the point of sitting on metal. I then contacted Chevrolet service, see service request number: 8-3426353686. After describing the issue, was contacted by the dealer, told them was a design flaw, told Chevrolet this, was then told to replace would cost money. I would have no issue with this except the seat is poorly designed and needs to be redesigned.