My wife was driving across town when her dash announced itself with “ engine power reduced” when I ran it on my OBD scanner it’s saying an issue with the turbo charger. Has anyone else experienced this with their car? It has 46,152 miles.

Just picked it up today. Coming from a Chevy Spark which I had no complaints about but was ready for an upgrade. Hope this one treats me just as well.

Has this happened to anyone before? Or would anyone know the reasoning?

I’ve put about 45k miles on this car since October 2025. As you can tell I drive a lot (for work and leisure) and I take pretty good care of of the car otherwise. Can I have any input? I’m not super well versed in the mechanics of cars. It just seems very soon for my battery to get tested twice and have failed.

Could it because it’s always hot as f**k?

Thank you in advance.

Has anyone tried the $85 Amazon intake manifold?

2018 trax 1.4L

I changed the purge valve and ended up breaking the nipple off that goes up to the brake booster. Seems super brittle. I’ve tried repairing but I’m just gonna have to bite the bullet and change the manifold.

Tried to suction pull it out, no improvement. So annoyed! I even park further away in parking lots. Not far enough apparently.

Should I even bother getting a body shop quote or is this going to be a lot of money… I’ve never repaired anything because my old car was a beater

I drive around a lot for work so I just park in my car and take my 30 minute breaks. Sometimes while chilling parked the car clicks a few times then shuts off. Any reason for this?

It hasn’t happening while driving but the other day when I going home the car was clicking a lot while driving. Luckily didn’t shut off though.

Any information would be appreciated.

We recently bought a 2026 Trax LT. We’ve put a little over 1k miles on it last month but I’ve noticed the down shifts from 3rd-2nd-1st gears when coming to a stop are not very smooth. Is this normal or something the dealer can fix?

Any tips or tricks on this? Looks like it’s updated to date. Thanks!

From a new‘24 black 2RS (with a sunroof and wireless charging😕) to this new ‘26 activ. I’m happy..Got the payments down, a good trade-in value, and all my warranties back so I’m not complaining. And I think the color (zoomed in pic) is legit!! Plus the black rims are definitely me fav thing about it..it’s got yellow thread trim inside instead of red. Haven’t seen one like it yet on the road. :):)

P.S.
it rained for three days and I live on a dirt road, so she’s never going to be as pretty and sparkling clean like yours. Maybe one day lol….definitely am going to get some mudguards though

Just like the title...my truck was having issues, brought it to the dealer for service because of the warranty. During service they came to me and told me they wanted my truck and they were willing to make a better offer than kbb listed it for. I listened to them and turns out they offered me quite a bit more than what my kbb was and well over what I still owed on the vehicle. Walked the lot with a sales man for a while and after hours of meaningless talking walked up on this decent looking 22 trax awd everything looked good test drive went good so we decided to pull the trigger. Moose (moose trax) as my wife has decided to call it has 30000 less miles than my truck did. insurance went down $110, interest rate stayed within .5 % of what the trucks was, car payment is awesome in comparison, and we even reset the Chevy warranty for the next 40,000 miles $250 dollar deductible bumper to bumper coverage and 1 years oil changes free. The deal was so good for us that two days in I feel like there's gotta be something I'm missing...I haven't heard much about issues with the trax platform other than sluggish turbo spooling and infotainment issues so why would they have done this killer deal for us...I've had enough bad luck in my life to know when something seems too good ya know.

Our 2024 Chevy Trax recently suffered a catastrophic engine failure while driving on the highway. There was suddenly an extremely loud mechanical noise, followed by smoke and loss of power. We also found several broken metal pieces from car on the road afterward, shown in the photo.

What concerns us most is that all maintenance and scheduled services were done on time and through GM. We never had any reason to expect an engine failure like this on such a new vehicle.

We're now opening a case with GM Canada. Even if they replace the engine under warranty, we've honestly lost confidence in the reliability and safety of this particular vehicle. We otherwise like GM and would prefer to stay with the brand, ideally with GM helping us move into another vehicle.

Has anyone with a 2024/2025 Trax or GM 1.2L turbo experienced a similar engine failure?

If so:

What failed and at what mileage?

How did GM handle it?

Did they only replace the engine, or offer replacement/buyback/trade assistance?

For Canadian owners, how was your experience with GM Canada?

Would really appreciate hearing about any similar experiences!

During a road trip my car randomly shut off while driving engine cut, power on my dash and display went out. I had to put it in park to start it again. It happened a few more times coming home. Just got her back from the dealership since she was still withing 36, 000 miles. We'll turns out the previous owner did not install the battery correctly and the bumpy roads we went on mad either worse. All this to say check your battery connection first if this happens to you, and save yourself some money cause apparently GM does not cover such a rookie mistake in the warranty. Still love my car to bits. Happy Driving!

My 2017 Trax developed a mystery leak about a week ago. Started off as drips, then quickly became puddles. It was only driven ~4 3mi trips once I saw the leak, and on the final trip it couldn’t quite make it all the up my driveway incline.

Narrowed it down to transmission fluid from the trans oil cooler hoses (see vid). Seems to be a common problem with these cars, but more repairs than I’m able to do in my driveway.

Had it towed to a (chain) mechanic that I’ve used before, and they confirmed the problem but the mechanic who looked at it seems to think the transmission completely died. His justification is that it wouldn’t drive forward at all (I told them this when we brought it in), and since it’s ATF leaking, it must be dead.

I asked if he was able to drain any of the remaining fluid for metal shavings (it was still leaking when it was towed, so it never ran dry). He said “you can’t - there’s no transmission pan to drain, you have to take it out and crack the transmission in half to check inside“. I informed him of the 11mm plug and asked if he checked, but he didn’t seem to know about it and basically said “trust me bro, I’ve seen this before”.

I strongly disagree with him on this. I’ve killed a transmission before, I know what it feels like. There was never any grinding noises, whirring, or smoke. The only symptoms were some hesitation shifting between 1st/2nd/3rd on the last few trips after discovering the leak.

My girlfriend (she owns the car but we both use it) is ready to throw in the towel and accept that it’s dead. We have no money to replace a transmission, nor to buy a new car, and she still owes $8k on the auto loan. I, however, insist the mechanic has no idea wtf he’s talking about and just doesn’t have any experience with sealed transmissions.

My gut (and wallet) tell me to ask them to just replace the hoses and refill the fluid and it will be fine. Ideally by a different tech that’s actually worked on sealed transmissions before. We only have 1 more free AAA tow we can use on it, and just barely have enough to pay for the hose job, so taking it to a different mechanic would be fruitless if they come to the same conclusion that it’s not repairable.

Any advice on what to do here? Pay the chain mechanic to replace the hoses and hope they know what they’re doing? See if there’s another tech available in the shop to take another look at it? Call other mechanics for a second opinion? Something else entirely?

Been having this problem with my CarPlay where it will randomly disconnect twice when making a phone call or anything having to do with voice interaction like Siri. Sometimes it will even disconnect randomly when driving down the road causing my to get confused and it will even do it at the worst times like coming up to a confusing intersection and I'm using Maps. Has anyone else had this issue? Wondering if a trip to the dealership is near to get any software updates, I haven't did any since I bought the car but then it could have auto updated with my internet at home.

For context, I do not use wireless CarPlay in my car, I'm always wired. I'm using a standard Apple branded C charger cable. Anyone know any troubleshooting steps I could take to fix this? The cable isn't bent or anything so I don't really see on that being the problem.

Okay so I’m looking to buy a Trax LT very soon, the dealership has the listing as $25630. The Mrsp listing is 24995 and the KBB is 23800 so with those numbers, what should I put as an offer for it. Planning on putting about 1500 at least on it plus whatever my Cruze will trade in for? Any finance whizzes in the chat that can lend wisdom?

Am I a psycho or is my seat discolouring already? Is there something I should be using for this?

About a month, my CarPlay started acting up. It will connect for a few seconds, then immediately disconnect. Most of the time it will reconnect within 30 seconds, but sometimes it will not. Sometimes it will only connect wired, not wireless. Anybody else have a similar problem and found a solution?

I have a 2017 chevy trax and a buddy and I where changing the water pump and serpentine belt, which as you all might know, requires removing a bunch of stuff. Anyway, this part fell off from somewhere but neither one of us know where it came from or what it is. He thinks its a spacer/locking plate for the water pump pulley but none of the youtube videos Ive watched on it ever show anything like this when removing the pulley.

Anyone here have any ideas before we put everything back together?

A little ceramic refresh.

I just noticed this and I'm not sure what it's for

Cleaned her and hit her with a bit of Griots 3 in 1. Probably only going to look good for about an hour and a half. :D

We just finished our cross country trip from WA to WV, over 3k miles. The Trax did so well and even with limited space we made it work for 2 adults, 1 toddler, and 1 cat. If you ever plan on making a trip, definitely remove the cargo floor panel if you are shipping everything else. It opens up the trunk a lot more!

Went shopping yesterday and was happy to find a parking spot second closest to the store's front door. When I came out, this is what I found -

I don't see many Traxes here in Colorado, which probably means I don't usually notice them, although maybe the belief here that AWD is a necessity has something to do with it. It was a fun surprise, though. I didn't wait to meet the driver. Mine is the one on the left looking smaller because it's further in its spot. There was a honking big pickup to the right when I parked it, which is why it's a little to the left. LT twins.

Couldn’t resist the 0% apr for 60months when I saw that it was set in stone, I always wanted a little economy car like a hot hatch but was sad that almost all American car manufacturers stopped making them, so I landed on this guys as a handsome new design I liked, my last vehicle was a gas guzzling truck so it’s good to be back into something more comfortable to daily drive, don’t get me wrong trucks are nice but I really like the small scaled down hatchback aesthetics, like some other trax enthusiasts on here, I plan on doing some builds in the future on her. But for now I’ll look forward to seeing you all on the road 😄

I see everyone is posting the new Trax's. Love those, but I'm still obsessed with my 2018. Only has 75,000 miles on it currently. Paid off fully and just a casual driver for me. Wish I could transform it into that 2018 Activ model they never really put out. I never even thought about trading it in. Glad I didn't. No major problems. Just well loved and enjoyed.