2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #1819340
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD WIPER/WASHER:MOTOR filed June 15, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1819340 (ODI reference 11469346) concerns a 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on June 15, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 15, 2022. 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 2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
2014 CHEVROLET EQUINOX. CONSUMER WRITES SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT FOR SAFETY RECALL RELATED TO BALL JOINT IN THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MODULES. THE CONSUMER STATED THE ENGINE FAILED WHILE BEING DRIVEN AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE CONSUMER WAS DRIVING IN A RAIN STORM AND, OPERATING THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS WHEN THE LEFT FRONT WIPER FLEW OFF OF THE VEHICLE. THE CONSUMER REQUESTED TO BE REIMBURSED FOR THE COST OF REPAIRS FOR BOTH THE ENGINE AND THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MODULE.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1819340 |
| ODI Number | 11469346 |
| Date Filed | June 15, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 15, 2022 |
| VIN | 2GNALCEK1E6 |
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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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