2025 Chevrolet Equinox

Too new to assess

The 2025 Chevrolet Equinox is too new for this measure. Almost every complaint about a vehicle this recent is a first-year complaint, because that is all the service life there has been, so the figure cannot separate a genuine early defect from simple youth. The complaint counts, systems and recalls below still stand on their own. The most-reported system is electrical system (74 complaints), typically at 1.3 yr or about 6,065 miles.

Complaints: 356
Median age at failure: 1.3 yr
Median mileage: 8,700 n=34
Crash / fire / tow: 7% of reports
Safety recalls: 0

When each system is reported — middle 50% of complaints

System

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Electrical system

74 reports · 6,065 mi

1.3 yr

1.4%

Other

49 reports

1.2 yr

Collision avoidance

40 reports · 11,000 mi

1.3 yr

27.5%

Power train

32 reports · 5,700 mi

1.3 yr

3.1%

Visibility / wipers

28 reports

1.0 yr

3.6%

Service brakes

22 reports

1.4 yr

13.6%

Engine

21 reports · 14,417 mi

1.1 yr

In owners’ own words

Electrical system mileage not reported 1 mo in service

After I engage the right turn signal and complete a right turn, it occasionally bounces the turn signal back too hard and then the "soft" (not fully clicked in) and lights up my left signal about three times. This has happened multiple times since we leased it in early September.

Electrical system mileage not reported 1 mo in service

Was driving down the road with a sudden loss of power to the infotainment system plus dashboard resulting in all black and being unable to see your speed/turn signals. The steering wheel lights suddenly flashed then shut off and wonât turn back on.

Electrical system mileage not reported 3 mo in service

Infotainment and Main Driver Information Center blank. While driving on highway Infotainments screen went blank followed by the Main Driver Information Center. Problem only lasted for 2 seconds before screens reappeared.

Other mileage not reported 6 mo in service

There are 2 big and long distortions in the windshield that effect the view. Viewing out of the windshield is hindered by causing objects to look distorted and different than reality. There is one on the right and left side of the windshield effecting the view of both sides.

Other Equinox model years

How to read this

This is what owners reported, not a reliability rating. People file with NHTSA about alarming failures, not routine ones, and complaint volume tracks how many cars were sold.
Failure ages come from the incident date on each complaint, populated on about 83% of records. Mileage is shown where reported — NHTSA’s 2021 system change cut mileage capture to roughly 15%, so it thins out sharply after MY2020.
Every rank compares this vehicle only against others of the same model year. A 2025 car has not had time to accumulate five-year failures, so comparing early-failure share across years is meaningless.
Fourteen make-months distorted by media storms and mass recalls — Toyota in February 2010 ran 11× normal volume across 33 models — are excluded.
Recalls are manufacturer actions and authoritative; complaints are not. A recall listed here may already have been performed on any individual car. Check a specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.