Federal complaint record · Chevrolet Equinox · model year 2018

2018 Chevrolet Equinox

Owners submitted 389 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 44th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2016 to 2020 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 22% · group n = 127Engine · 16% · group n = 91Powertrain · 11% · group n = 63Electrical · 10% · group n = 58Other · 10% · group n = 56
389
Complaint records on file
21,250
Median mileage at the reported problem · 184 complaints reported mileage
22%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 127
44th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Brakes · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Brakes22%

Brakes reports

Chevrolet Equinox · model year 2018

Reports in this group127
Share of classified reports22%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2017
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
270 matched incidents
This car
2018
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
389 matched incidents
2019
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
292 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
Brake performance · 124 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32018 Chevrolet Equinox
Stalling or shutdown · 31 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 2 of 32018 Chevrolet Equinox
Transmission behavior · 31 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32018 Chevrolet Equinox

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

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