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Chevrolet Equinox 2015

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

0.20 per 1,000

0.6 times this nameplate’s own median · from 51 complaints filed in the first three years, of 679 ever. 95% lower bound 0.14.

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.

Visibility/Wiper 250 complaints

wipers	219	87%
stopped	152	61%
stopped working	103	41%
wipers stopped	86	34%
rain storm	36	14%
bushing	15	6%

Engine 227 complaints

timing	52	23%
chain	44	20%
timing chain	40	18%
excessive	40	18%
chevy	39	17%
seal	29	13%

Unknown Or Other 54 complaints

working

19%

When it breaks

12% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 75,000 miles, from 426 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:

10733749 · 10747692 · 10748368 · 10762444 · 10779169 · 10783254

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.