2008 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #1029162
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL:AUTOMATIC (ASC) filed December 29, 2013
NHTSA complaint #1029162 (ODI reference 10557625) concerns a 2008 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on December 29, 2013. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 26, 2013. The vehicle had 64,255 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Ohio based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control:automatic (asc), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same CHEVROLET EQUINOX cohort independently describe similar electronic stability control:automatic (asc) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY WIFE WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE HOME LATE WHEN THE SERVICE ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON TRACTION CONTROL CAME ON THEN SERVICE STABILITRAK LIGHT CAME ON AND STAYED. MADE STEERING VERY DIFFICULT, LIKE OLD TIME TRUCK WOULD HAVE BEEN. LUCKILY KEPT CONTROL OR COULD HAVE RESULTED INTO SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS! BAD PART NO EARLY WARNINGS, VEHICLE BATTERY HAS NEVER BEEN JUMPED OR USED TO JUMP (READ SOMETHING ABOUT BLOWING MEGA FUSE ) VEHICLE 5 MONTHS PAST 5 YR. WARRANTY WITH ONLY 64265 MILES ON IT .I HAVE READ OF THIS OCCURRING TO MANY OTHERS, HOPEFULLY NO INJURIES.THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM THAT NEEDS TO BE RESOLVED. I AM TAKING IT TO THE DEALER TOMORROW. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1029162 |
| ODI Number | 10557625 |
| Date Filed | December 29, 2013 |
| Failure Date | December 26, 2013 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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