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Two very different cars have worn the Trailblazer badge in the Kingdom, and knowing which you are looking at is the whole job. Ours sit at the affordable end of the crossover market, bought as second cars and run hard.
What to look over on a used Chevrolet Trailblazer
Read the tyre and suspension sections of the CarSwitch report first — at this price that is where your negotiating room is.
Asking prices on our Trailblazer listings run from SAR 18,000 to SAR 20,000, below almost every Japanese or Korean crossover of the same year — that discount is the reason to look at one.
Budget for tyres before anything else. 27% of the Chevrolet Trailblazers we inspect in Saudi Arabia have mismatched or damaged tyres, against the 7% we would expect for crossovers of the same age and mileage in the Kingdom. That is what happens to a cheap car kept a long time — owners replace in pairs, or not at all — and it is the least expensive problem here to solve. Price a matched set into your offer and check the suspension underneath it.
The Hyundai Tucson costs a great deal more and is the better car in every way that is not the price. The Chevrolet Captiva is the closer comparison, and shows mechanical faults at 24% against an expectation of 10% — the Trailblazer is the sounder Chevrolet.
Buy the body style you actually want. Up to around 2020 the Trailblazer was a ladder-frame SUV built off the Colorado pickup, with a V6 and real towing ability; from roughly 2021 the name moved to a small front-drive crossover with none of that hardware. The older truck is the durable one, the newer car far better in the city.
This is not its strength: about 42% of its value after five years, behind the 47% average for used SUVs in the Kingdom. If you plan to sell in three years the Haval Jolion, at roughly 65%, is the better financial decision.