2015 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #1778210
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES filed November 12, 2021
NHTSA complaint #1778210 (ODI reference 11440202) concerns a 2015 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on November 12, 2021. The owner reports the failure occurred on September 11, 2021. The report was geocoded to Mississippi 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 2015 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox. The contact stated that his daughter informed him that the front driver's side windshield wiper linkage was fractured and had detached. The failure occurred on three separate occasions. The two previous failures were repaired by independent mechanics. The most recent failure was repaired by the contact, who replaced the windshield wiper linkage however, the failure recurred. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was unavailable.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1778210 |
| ODI Number | 11440202 |
| Date Filed | November 12, 2021 |
| Failure Date | September 11, 2021 |
| VIN | 1GNALBEK5FZ |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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