2025 CHEVROLET EQUINOX — Complaint #2177238
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NHTSA Complaint about FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS filed February 16, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2177238 (ODI reference 11718263) concerns a 2025 CHEVROLET EQUINOX and was filed on February 16, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 15, 2026. The report was geocoded to Montana based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as forward collision avoidance: warnings, 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 forward collision avoidance: warnings 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 2025 CHEVROLET EQUINOX shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
VEHICLE INFORMATION Vehicle: 2025 Chevrolet Equinox (Gas) Purchase Price: $46,000 In-Service Date: January 28, 2026 Current Mileage: 2,433 miles First Repair Attempt: Approximately 200 miles DEFECT DESCRIPTION (SAFETY-CRITICAL) The vehicle experiences intermittent but recurring safety system failures while driving, including: ⢠Complete instrument cluster blackout (all gauges dark) ⢠All warning lights and alerts disappear ⢠ADAS / driver-assist systems shut down ⢠System appears to reboot for approximately 15 seconds while in motion ⢠Vehicle settings reset to default (vehicle systems, not radio) ⢠Brake pedal becomes hard during these events ⢠Stopping distance feels increased during braking events This behavior indicates a brake assist interruption and a loss of critical driver information while the vehicle is moving. REPAIR HISTORY SUMMARY ⢠Vehicle has been in the dealership approximately 4â5 times for the same or substantially similar defect ⢠Dealership h
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2177238 |
| ODI Number | 11718263 |
| Date Filed | February 16, 2026 |
| Failure Date | February 15, 2026 |
| VIN | 3gnaxseg4sl |
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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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