2015 Chevrolet Equinox
This year drew an ordinary 679 complaints for a Chevrolet Equinox — the model's median is 370. What they were about is the unusual part: 36.5% of them mention wipers, against 11.5% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Equinox, which began in 2010 and ran to 2017. 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 | 679 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 370 |
| Involving a crash | 24 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 23 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- wipers — 36.5% of this year's complaints, against 11.5% across the other years of this generation (3.2×).
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
WIPERS STOPPED WORKING WHILE IN USE IN A RAINSTORM WHILE DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY.
2015 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARD TO SAFTEY ISSUES WITH WINDSHIELD WIPERS.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V666000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 22V165000 VISIBILITY 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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