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Chevrolet Equinox 2014

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.22 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 53 complaints filed in the first three years, of 546 ever. 95% lower bound 0.16.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.40	27
2009	0.08	6
2010	0.83	98
2011	0.64	109
2012	0.32	66
2013	0.31	70
2014	0.22	53
2015	0.20	51
2016	0.18	46
2017	0.12	31
2018	0.47	146
2019	0.33	111
2020	0.29	89
2021	0.16	35
2022	0.48	91
2023	0.33	70

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Engine 218 complaints

oil	147	67%
consumption	45	21%
chevy	43	20%
oil consumption	43	20%
seal	36	17%
timing chain	32	15%

Visibility/Wiper 167 complaints

wipers	144	86%
stopped	98	59%
wipers stopped	48	29%
transmission	43	26%
wiper transmission	37	22%
linkage	21	13%

When it breaks

11% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 79,500 miles, from 373 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign.

Front Wiper Transmission Inoperative

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10585640 · 10587203 · 10587398 · 10604289 · 10608438 · 10610051

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is verified against a published figure.