Other visibility problem on the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox
2 crashes 2 of the 84 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 visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox report other visibility problem at a median of 82,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles, from 66 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 47,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 122,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 75,290 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.
0% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47,500 miles | 65,000 miles | 81,500 miles | 105,919 miles | 122,790 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, 2 a crash is 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 $150–$1,400 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 20,000 miles, and latest on the 2007 at 100,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 carries the most reports, with 137; the 2014 has 84. 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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 chevrolet equinox. While driving the vehicle, the windshield wipers failed to operate. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 116,544.
Tl* the contact owns a 2014 chevrolet equinox. While driving 40 MPH in the rain, the windshield wipers failed without warning. The contact's husband diagnosed that the wiper transmission linkage failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the issue and stated that the vehicle was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16v582000 (visibility). The approximate failure mileage was 42,000.
The wipers failed, stopped wiping in the middle of a heavy rain storm while driving on the expressway. Thankfully able to slow down enough to pull off to the side, very scary! Called dealer and was informed that my warranty expired in january of 2017. In researching the repair I discovered that equinox 2013 and I think other years had a recall for the exact failure on my vehicle. The repair mechanic call gm verified the recall on 2013's, the failure on my vehicle 2014 and gm unwillingness to pay for this vehicle repair. The unbelievable irony of this safety issue is that when the repair part arrived it clearly stated "recall" on the label. It was like giving me the middle finger along with the bill. Gm should add 2014 and any other vehicles using this component to their wiper recall due to safety concerns before someone gets seriously injured.
Also reported on the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox
Other engine problem
Wiper or washer failure
Excessive oil consumption
Timing chain, belt or tensioner failure
Oil leak
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 84 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 visibility problem happen on the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox?
Across 66 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 82,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 65,000 miles and a quarter after 105,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2014 Chevrolet Equinox?
84 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 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