Other electrical problem on the 2013 Chevrolet Equinox
1 crash 2 fires 3 of the 50 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other electrical problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Chevrolet Equinox report other electrical problem at a median of 32,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles, from 34 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 2,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 130,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 127,550 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
53% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,150 miles | 7,771 miles | 33,132 miles | 94,625 miles | 130,700 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash and 2 a fire are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 90,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 74; the 2013 has 50. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
While sitting stopped at a traffic light yesterday, my brand new equinox just turned off. A co-worker with the same car (different model year) mentioned this happened to her two weeks prior to it happening to me. When I went online to research the issue, I was alarmed after locating multiple forums where equinox owners were having the same problem and looking for answers. The car has been shutting off without any warning, including while people are driving on the highway. This obviously is not an isolated issue as it is happening to people with various model years, and it could pose a serious problem on the highway. *tr
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 chevrolet equinox. The contact that while driving at various speeds, the collision sensor activated independently without any other vehicle within close proximity. The vehicle proceeded to decelerate. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnosis. The technician was unable to diagnose the failure. The technician reduced the sensitivity of the collision sensor. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 1831.
Driving on 5 lane highway at 60mph car shut off for no reason and went dead. Cars and trucks on both side of me and had to try. And get on left shoulder which I did without getting hit. I turned off ignition and tried to restart the car and it restarted ok and I continued on . This same problem has happened twice since I purchased vehicle. Returned to dealer both times and they checked it and said nothing wrong. I am afraid it could happen again with my children or grandchildren in car and maybe wouldn't be so lucky to get off road without being hit. Where do I go from here? Thank you *tr
Also reported on the 2013 Chevrolet Equinox
Excessive oil consumption
Other engine problem
Other visibility problem
Timing chain, belt or tensioner failure
Wiper or washer failure
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 50 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other electrical problem happen on the 2013 Chevrolet Equinox?
Across 34 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 32,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 7,500 miles and a quarter after 95,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other electrical problem on the 2013 Chevrolet Equinox?
50 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed