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Chevrolet Equinox 2013

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

0.31 per 1,000

1.0 times this nameplate’s own median · from 70 complaints filed in the first three years, of 750 ever. 95% lower bound 0.23.

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 412 complaints

oil	303	73%
consumption	119	29%
oil consumption	116	28%
chevy	68	17%
seal	61	15%
excessive oil	54	13%

Visibility/Wiper 144 complaints

campaign visibility	66	46%
recall repair	52	36%
tool confirms	46	32%
tool	46	32%
confirms	46	32%
confirms parts	45	31%

Power Train 80 complaints

oil	45	56%
consumption	16	20%
oil consumption	15	19%

When it breaks

15% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 80,000 miles, from 515 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

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

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:

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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.