Recall Register

Chevrolet Equinox: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 32 recall campaigns for the Chevrolet Equinox, model years 2005 to 2026. NHTSA has 614 complaints on file for this model line. 14 of the 20 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20051
  2. 20060
  3. 20074
  4. 20080
  5. 20090
  6. 20103
  7. 20113
  8. 20123
  9. 20132
  10. 20141
  11. 20152
  12. 20161
  13. 20185
  14. 20194
  15. 20204
  16. 20214
  17. 20226
  18. 20233
  19. 20241
  20. 20261
Chevrolet Equinox: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2026 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page100%5,861
2024 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page100%265
2023 Chevrolet Equinox300%675,091
2022 Chevrolet Equinox600%786,047
2021 Chevrolet Equinox400%701,577
2020 Chevrolet Equinox400%862,759
2019 Chevrolet Equinox400%405,154
2018 Chevrolet Equinox500%408,912
2016 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page100%17
2015 Chevrolet Equinox200%681,904
2014 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page100%681,509
2013 Chevrolet Equinox200%376,175
2012 Chevrolet Equinox300%456,664
2011 Chevrolet Equinox300%520,543
2010 Chevrolet Equinox338124%481,731
2009 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page0310%
2008 Chevrolet Equinox NHTSA page02375%
2007 Chevrolet Equinox478254%113,518
2006 Chevrolet Equinox0191622%
2005 Chevrolet Equinox1281915%132

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

879 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Chevrolet Equinox: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Visibility154.7136
Engine and Engine Cooling149131
Electrical System108.195
Power Train105.893
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6658
Air Bags55.749
Structure53.547
Steering50.144
Suspension47.842
Equipment37.533

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Chevrolet Equinox, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2022, with 4 campaigns.
Complaints about the Chevrolet Equinox, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 213 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Chevrolet: all 169 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Chevrolet Equinox: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/chevrolet/equinox/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Chevrolet Equinox model years have the most recall campaigns?
2022 with 6, 2018 with 5, 2021 with 4. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Chevrolet Equinox model year has the most complaints?
The 2005 model year, with 281 of the 614 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Chevrolet Equinox name?
Visibility: 154.7 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 149 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 108.1 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Chevrolet Equinox?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.