2007 Chevrolet Equinox
This year drew an ordinary 685 complaints for a Chevrolet Equinox — the model's median is 370. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.6% of them mention fuel, against 7% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Equinox, which began in 2005 and ran to 2009. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 685 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 370 |
| Involving a crash | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 19.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- fuel — 29.6% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the other years of this generation (4.2×).
- pump — 33.7% of this year's complaints, against 12% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: pump, fuel pump, gasoline, fuel system.
- smell — 23.4% of this year's complaints, against 8.7% across the other years of this generation (2.7×). Owners wrote it as: smell, strong, gas tank, gas smell.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
STRONG FUEL FUMES EMITTED AROUND THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHERE IT WAS DIAGNOSED THAT THE FUEL PUMP WAS CRACKED AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 09V…
WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, SHE BEGAN TO SMELL GASOLINE. THE SMELL BECAME STRONGER AND AFTER TIME, BECAME NOTICEABLE OUTSIDE THE VEHICLE. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A DEALER FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THE CONTACT WAS INFORMED THAT A FUEL LINE WAS CRACKED. AFTER AN ONLINE SEARC…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 12V459000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 07V344000 AIR BAGS
- 07V242000 VISIBILITY
- 07V520000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Equinox was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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