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2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer brakes problems

59 complaints about brakes have been filed for the 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer, which is 4% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
59 4% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
45,000 miles 35 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
15 and 3
Injuries and deaths
9 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When brakes problems show up

Brakes complaints by mileage, 2002 Chevrolet Trailblazer Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 45,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 10 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 5 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 7 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 3 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 4 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 2 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 2 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 45,000 miles
Based on 35 complaints that include mileage. 63% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles10
20k to 40k miles5
40k to 60k miles7
60k to 80k miles3
80k to 100k miles4
100k to 120k miles2
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles2
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 35 brakes complaints that report mileage, the median is about 45,000 miles, and 63% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 15 crashes, 3 fires, 9 injuries.

What owners wrote

Consumer lost steering and hit a tree head on. In addition, the seat belt failed to lock causing injuries to the consumer (driver). (lawyer on behalf of client rebecca doyle). The airbag also burned/injured the passenger. The vehicle experienced electrical problems with the brake lights, tail lights, fuel gauge, left seat belt, dash (computer readout) and the brakes pulled.

September 2003 CrashInjury

Recently bought a car that I believe they are illegally passing the inspections on. They proclaimed that fixed a major part to keep the tires on my car tie rods and cv axel. Just short time after it looked like the part was never replaced just tightened up and shortly after we had all kinds of issues with the brakes and anything that keeps the car driveing safely the brakes went out on me so I called to see what they did and why they never fixed it the berry next day they repo the car as if they are trying to hide…

Reported at 220,000 miles, July 2018

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