Federal complaint record · Chevrolet Equinox · model year 2012

2012 Chevrolet Equinox

Owners submitted 682 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 81th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2010 to 2014 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 38% · group n = 362Visibility · 14% · group n = 128Powertrain · 9% · group n = 84Electrical · 7% · group n = 69Other · 6% · group n = 58
682
Complaint records on file
81,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 498 complaints reported mileage
38%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 362
81th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Engine · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Engine38%

Engine reports

Chevrolet Equinox · model year 2012

Reports in this group362
Share of classified reports38%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2011
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
780 matched incidents
This car
2012
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
682 matched incidents
2013
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
747 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Stalling or shutdown · 126 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32012 Chevrolet Equinox
Engine damage · 79 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 2 of 32012 Chevrolet Equinox
Transmission behavior · 55 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32012 Chevrolet Equinox

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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