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Chevrolet Equinox 2018

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

0.47 per 1,000

1.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 146 complaints filed in the first three years, of 408 ever. 95% lower bound 0.39.

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.

Service Brakes 132 complaints

pump	67	51%
vacuum	61	46%
vacuum pump	54	41%
assist	41	31%
brake assist	40	30%
service brake	30	23%

Engine 86 complaints

vacuum	24	28%
vacuum pump	20	24%
brake pedal	13	16%
brake assist	10	12%

Power Train 66 complaints

pump	10	16%
code	10	16%

When it breaks

54% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 21,500 miles, from 187 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

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:

11002082 · 11019976 · 11030469 · 11032088 · 11046413 · 11053645

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.