2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #1478110
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES filed June 25, 2018
NHTSA complaint #1478110 (ODI reference 11103754) concerns a 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on June 25, 2018. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 23, 2018. The vehicle had 44,400 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Virginia based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:linkages, 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. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
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 visibility:windshield wiper/washer:linkages 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 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 65 MPH IN THE RAIN, THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS SUDDENLY STOPPED WORKING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE SECTION OF THE WIPERS THAT CONNECTED TO THE WIPER MOTOR WAS DAMAGED DUE TO CORROSION. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER AND LOCAL DEALER (BERGLUND CHEVROLET BUICK, 1824 WILLIAMSON ROAD, ROANOKE, VA 24012) WERE BOTH NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 44,400.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1478110 |
| ODI Number | 11103754 |
| Date Filed | June 25, 2018 |
| Failure Date | June 23, 2018 |
| VIN | 2GNFLEEK3E6 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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