Chevrolet Equinox Ev
Problems & Worst Years

An unusual complaint leads the file on the Chevrolet Equinox EV: glare. In both years on record, the single most-reported problem is the dashboard reflecting into the windshield and interfering with the driver's view. For 2024 (73 total complaint occurrences), that glare complaint drew 41 reports; for 2025, the higher-volume year at 108 occurrences, it grew to 58 reports and was logged at safety severity. It is rare for a visibility issue to dominate a complaint file this completely, and it is something a buyer can evaluate directly — take the test drive in bright sun and judge for yourself.

The rest of the file centers on braking electronics. The 2024 year logged random brake engagements during driving (13 reports) and forward collision avoidance malfunctions (10), both at safety severity, plus a few defective turn signal stalks and complaints about automatic lane change sensitivity. For 2025, the pattern sharpens: automatic emergency braking malfunctions (26 reports), brake system failure and malfunction (18), more forward collision avoidance faults, and scattered reports of adaptive cruise control failing to engage the brakes. Three of 2025's five listed problems carry safety severity, against two for 2024.

Recall coverage applies to the 2025 model year, with campaigns 24V925, 25V012, and 26V114 on file — verifying those are closed should be step one on any 2025 candidate. No campaigns are listed against the 2024 year in this data.

Both model years are very recent, which cuts two ways: total complaint volumes are still modest, and these vehicles simply have not had much time on the road to accumulate reports. Complaint counts also reflect what owners filed with NHTSA rather than measured failure rates. Treat the glare and the driver-assist braking behavior as the two things to personally verify, confirm recall status, and put more stock in a pre-purchase inspection and the individual vehicle's history than in the difference between these two years.