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2011 Chevrolet Equinox electrical system problems

Owners reported electrical system problems in 74 complaints for the 2011 Chevrolet Equinox, 6% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
74 7% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
61,000 miles 55 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
5 and 2
Injuries and deaths
6 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Electrical system complaints by mileage, 2011 Chevrolet Equinox Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 61,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 14 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 10 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 5 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 8 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 4 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 5 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 3 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 2 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 61,000 miles
Based on 55 complaints that include mileage. 49% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles14
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles10
60k to 80k miles5
80k to 100k miles8
100k to 120k miles4
120k to 140k miles5
140k to 160k miles3
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles2
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 55 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 60,000 miles, and 49% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 5 crashes, 2 fires, 6 injuries.

What owners wrote

June 9, 2017 at 10:00 pm I hit a deer on south dakota hwy 11 in lincoln county. The speed limit was 65 MPH and I was going 68 MPH when I hit the deer head on. I drove over to the side of the road and the vehicle stopped. After a few minutes my wife and I smelled burning electrical wire. We got out of the car and started to walk away and within 10 minutes the whole thing went up in flames. The car was totaled and the airbags did not go off.

Reported at 115,000 miles, June 2017 CrashFireInjury

Owned for 6 days and the battery was dead hesitation, stalling, hard shift, rpm's bounce all over and it auto shifts all over the place, terrible gas mileage, smells like it runs rich when started, down shifts going thru the middle of town at 20 MPH and throws me forward, some shifting hesitates like it sticks in neutral temporarily, has been in the dealership constantly. GM has not done anything, I am always told that it is a part or that it is updates that come from GM.

Reported at 600 miles, March 2011

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