2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #1768348
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed September 14, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1768348 (ODI reference 11432957) concerns a 2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on September 14, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 14, 2021. The vehicle had 110,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:windshield wiper/washer:motor, 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:motor 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 2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2016 Chevrolet Equinox. The contact stated that while his wife was driving 65 MPH, the windshield wipers failed to operate during a rainstorm without warning. His wife pulled off to the shoulder of the road and waited for the storm to subside before she resumed driving. Once the contact's wife made it home, the contact inspected the vehicle and stated that an abnormal, clicking noise was coming from the windshield wiper motor. The dealer nor the manufacturer had yet to be notified of the failure. The vehicle had yet to be repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 110,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1768348 |
| ODI Number | 11432957 |
| Date Filed | September 14, 2021 |
| Failure Date | September 14, 2021 |
| VIN | 2GNALCEK9G6 |
Similar VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR Complaints for 2016 CHEVROLET EQUINOX
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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