This model year has 407 processed complaint reports; SERVICE BRAKES is the most frequently classified system at 32.4% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2018 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents407
Reports with crash / fire flags27
Flagged-report share6.63%
Primary reported systemSERVICE BRAKES
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
SERVICE BRAKES132 documented reports
32.4%ENGINE86 documented reports
21.1%POWER TRAIN65 documented reports
16.0%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM61 documented reports
15.0%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED56 documented reports
13.8%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM33 documented reports
8.1%STRUCTURE17 documented reports
4.2%FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE16 documented reports
3.9%AIR BAGS15 documented reports
3.7%STEERING15 documented reports
3.7%Show all 26 reported components
HYDRAULIC14 documented reports
3.4%WHEELS13 documented reports
3.2%VISIBILITY/WIPER11 documented reports
2.7%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL11 documented reports
2.7%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING9 documented reports
2.2%FUEL SYSTEM8 documented reports
2.0%GASOLINE8 documented reports
2.0%SEATS7 documented reports
1.7%SEAT BELTS7 documented reports
1.7%VISIBILITY6 documented reports
1.5%EXTERIOR LIGHTING6 documented reports
1.5%ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC)6 documented reports
1.5%LANE DEPARTURE3 documented reports
0.7%TIRES3 documented reports
0.7%PARKING BRAKE2 documented reports
0.5%EQUIPMENT1 documented reports
0.2%What the data says
SERVICE BRAKES is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 32.4% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2018 CHEVROLET EQUINOX has 407 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
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