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Chevrolet Equinox 2008

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

0.40 per 1,000

1.2 times this nameplate’s own median · from 27 complaints filed in the first three years, of 369 ever. 95% lower bound 0.25.

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.

Air Bags 109 complaints

service air	16	15%
lbs	15	14%
chevy	14	13%
service airbag	13	12%

Electrical System 65 complaints

air bag	11	17%
bag	11	17%

When it breaks

8% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 75,000 miles, from 297 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:

10214633 · 10226975 · 10231069 · 10231607 · 10232328 · 10240629

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.