general problems of the 2015 Chevrolet Equinox - part 1

Ending result timing chain : beginning of result: 1. My vehicle experienced a sudden and complete loss of power steering while driving at highway speeds. The loss of power steering significantly compromised the driver's ability to maneuver the vehicle safely, especially during emergency situations, putting both the driver and other road users at risk of an accident. 2. Traveling at high way speeds my car suddenly lost complete power to go. Keep going up and down in speed in middle of interstate 3. No warning signs prior no check engine line appeared until after the safety risk above.

Excessive oil consumption problem- which we were not aware of and it caused our vehicle to shut down in the middle of the street blocking traffic- making it a huge safety issue & should be a recall. Due to the excessive oil consumption that caused our timing chain to break. This is an issue that chevy knew was happening to this year & other years around the same time, but never informed us - now it needs a new engine & they won't replace it. It only has 88,000 miles, we had recently changed the oil & oil filter so this was unexpected.

As I was driving. I had complete engine failure. 60 days after a new engine . I had battery failure, bad battery wire, bad alternator & a bad serpentine belt.

Truck reads airflow, engine speed reduced, airbag failure.

My 2015 chevy Equinox is burning oil at an alarming rate. I just found out I have been driving this car with no oil. I had no indicator lights come on warning me of any danger. I have only 68000 miles on this car and they are telling me I need a new engine. I still owe $15,000 on this car that I have only had for 8 months. . . And they want me to pay $9000. 00 for a new engine on a defect that gm knows about. My 17 year old drives this car (well I won't let him now) but what if the engine blew while he was driving? this is a very dangerous defect and people can get seriously hurt.

I am constantly having to add oil and get oil changes it burns through oil about 3 quarts every month if not more and it is costing me way more than I should have to be doing and it is a serious problem that something should be done about.

Timing chain broke at 150,000 miles. I have only had the car for a year and a half. This is a known issue for the 2015 Equinox and the warranty company doesn't want to cover it, even though I have a 2 year 24,000 warranty on it. I have only driven 19,000 miles so I'm clearly within the window.

The transfer case blew out. (2) in seven months. Every mechanic that has looked at it says that the bearings sheered and caused metal fragments into the gears causing the transfer case to fail. There was no warning when this happened, no dash lights, just severe grinding and I parked the car. The mechanic pulled it into the bay to further investigate and that is when it blew out and all of the fluid poured out. In July, the same thing happened. Had it replaced and 7 months later it happened again. I had only driven the car 15k miles in 7 months when the transfer case blew out again. After reading forums there are many people that have been effected by the transfer case blowing out.

The transmission doesn't shift properly and the wheel bearing and the tie rods keep going bad.

Rear main seal has blown out due to the pcv valve intake issue. Gm is not taking any ownership in the known issue which is service bulletin 14882 that appears to have been issued in 2019. No coverage for repair no recall but a class action lawsuit for all these consumers affected.

My car received an oil changed recently and then shortly after my engine went completely out due to having no oil. My timing chain stretched out and broke resulting in no compression to my engine. The light didn’t even come on to indicate that there was an issue until after the car completely broke down.

I was driving down interstate and engine failed due to manufacturer malfunction excessive oil consumption defect. I safely pulled off interstate to avoid injury to myself or others due to engine malfunction. There were not any pre warning lamps only post warning lamps. Gm dealer determined catastrophic engine failure #2 cylinder misfire. Engine needs replaced.

My car has been parked due to problems starting. I have had mechanics look at it and it is a timing chain issue or engine replacement issue. Oil has been a consistent problem with my car even though I routinely get oil changes and there are no leaks beneath the car. I have to keep oil and a funnel in my car to add as necessary. The console never indicates low oil.

Vehicle is stalling when stopping and starting to go. Service engine light came on had it it scanned, found it to be the camshaft position sensor. Called my local dealer as to find out if there is any recall on this, and they said that there is not. I believe there should be a recall on this part as is it is a safety issue, as stated the vehicle was stalling and you lose all power. When starting to pull out in traffic you will be left with no power as the engine stalls and you have to put the vehicle in neutral and restart it.

My vehicle started throwing an error with the stability track. This causes the whole car braking system to make my vehicle not go over 35 mph and vibrates the whole time. During this error, unable to turn on air conditioning.

Low oil pressure light came on, all the oil had leaked out and the warning advised to turn engine off immediately. Issue is I could have gotten into an accident, as the vehicle could have locked up and shut off, why is this not recalled it is dangerous.

The 2015 Equinox has transmission problems. While driving the transmission will stop working and you have to turn off the motor and wait a few minutes and restart the motor for the transmission to shift into park reverse and drive again. It happened on a road with no shoulder and traffic behind me I had to shut off the motor put it in park and wait a minute and then restart the motor for the vehicle to be able to move again!.

Car stalling when taking off from a stop causing dangerous situations. I had a 2013 of the exact model and it did the same thing. Gm has an issue with the intake sensors that needs to be addressed.

I just purchased the vehicle she hadn't even driven it 2 months when it started to shut off on it's on. Causing very dangerous situations. Then the oil consumption problem that's been well known and heavily documented time after time. Without warning lights or low oil pressure light or even a check engine light to give any type of warning the front seal blew out causing heavy oil loose that caused the engine bay and over the bottom of the vehicle drenching areas that have really high temperatures that could have caused the oil to possibly ignite at any time from the high heated areas that was covered in oil. Also with front seal blown out without warning led to timming chain becoming faulty and then breaking leading to my valves impacting with pistons because this is a interference engine. The impact caused every valve to bend which led to no compression and without compression no engine will start without compression. All this consumption issue is due to piston rings that are under sized which allows blow by leading to consumption. After all that the price of everything to be fixed at home by myself cost almost $1000 and many man hours not including all the time I have a vehicle that's new to me that I haven't been able to drive but just a few months after purchasing. Checker knows these problems exists and how dangerous these problems can be. You would think a car manufacturer as big as Chevrolet and GMC would do something to help there customers rather than not even showing any kind of care really in the world. I thought these companies stand by there products.

Car won't start put in new camshaft timing solenoids and won't start. Defective engine.

1. Transmission and core structure 2. The vehicle was apparently in a bad accident, damage was not exposed at the time I purchased the vehicle. 3. Unknown 4. The vehicle or component has been inspected by a reputable transmission shop, and car max has inspected the vehicle as well, 5. I did notice from day one, that the car was lower on the front left side, and the car started to hesitate when engaged in the drive. No warning lights!! 6.

Gm- has issued recall on 2010-2013 equniox's or extended the warranty on the powertrain for those years. Unfortunately, from 2014-to 2017 same engine wasn't included in this extended 150,000 warranty. Know issues of rear main seal blowing out causing all of the oil to leak for the engine while driving not one warning light came on! this blew up the engine with my wife and daughter in the car! they could have died!!!!!! what's wrong with gm knowing that this can happen! mine has 73,000 miles on it and they will not repair it! they have to do better before someone gets killed!.

My 2015 Chevrolet Equinox 2. 4l ecotec awd vehicle with 102k miles had a massive oil leak in Jan. 2022, when it was -22 deg. F outside. The car was at work outside, and my drive home was about 7 miles. When I got home, I decided to check the oil on the dipstick and it was empty. The whole underside of the chasis was oil splattered. I added 3 quarts of oil and started the car up and oil was poring out of the rear main seal. I trailered it to a Chevrolet dealer, and they said the pvc frozen up. The engine and subframe will need to come out. This was an expensive repair. This vehicle does burn oil. It does not leak oil thou. The engine oil light never came on during the ride home. I am glad I checked the oil, because the engine would have quit running on the freeway somewhere.

I have a 2015 chevy Equinox lt, I had my car repair engine light came on all lights on dash lite service warning for abs, traction control, stabilitrak and steering wheel, and when I would stop the car would stall. I took to chevy dealership and had serviced. The intake valve was replaced covered under warranty, and the ecm (engine control module) replaced. Car seemed fine after 1 1/2 years service stabilitrak came on and off , I had issues with low fuel mileage, only check engine light came on once and then right off again after I had the spark plugs replaced the outtake valve replaced no check engine light , regular oil changes. One day the service stabilitrak light came on and did not come off. This has been going on for 6 months I was driving and my car started jumping when I came to a stop, no lights came on. I continued to drive and when I parked my car sounded like a mac truck and was shaking and had the smell of burning oil or gas. I parked a 2 hours later I started it the same sound and smell along with the check engine light I looked under my car and there was oil dripping, I stopped and add oil and was able to drive home slowly. I parked over night I started it and drove around the block I turned off and then waited a minute turned back on opened the hood and the engine was shaking loud and reduced engine power message came up. I am at a loss I do not have money to fix this it is a 2015 no warranties are even covered over this issue if they are able to figure out what this is. I looked all over the internet and so many people have this problem I don't understand why it is not recalled or there is no class action against gm for this.

Oil pressure relief valve blew.

Timing chain issues.

My car had no advance warning as was supposed to for low oil levels. I was driving highway speed during rush hour when I hear a loud bang my car jolts to a stop and I’m left stranded. The car was only 5 years old and 100,000 miles. The bang was the engine that blew due to a major oil consumption or leak issue with the 2. 4 and the transmission also burnt and needed replaced as well. I bought used and did not even make the first payment.

Constant burning of oil, up to 1 quart in less than 1,000 miles. Had oil consumption test done due to all the negative reviews on oil consumption issues with this motor, and lifetime powertrain warranty refuses to cover any repairs that could be associated with oil consumption.

My vehicle had a oil change at 86,000 miles. I hit 90,722 miles . The vehicle was running fine and when I got off work and tried to start the car it started but then shut off. I had no check engine lights, no low oil light and had a perfect diagnostics report on my onstar, I had to get the vehicle towed to a dealer per on star, after speaking to the dealer I was informed the motor blew up because it jumped time and dumped oil. I was also told this is a common problem with this motor but gm is refusing to fix it because the warranty just went up 6 months ago . I have been told by several shops chevy knows about this time chain or jumping time issue and in most cases a new motor is required. I would like to understand why no warning lights came on and how oil could dump after having a oil change 3,000 miles give or take ? and why chevy is passing the problem onto the customer.

My vehicle has consumed more oil then I can even phantom, traditionally oil is supposed to last 3k miles and when you regularly change it you shouldn't notice much consumption if any at all, this vehicle not only consumes on average a quart of oil every 500 - 1k miles but I am also never alerted that my oil is low. This is dangerous as typically with synthetic oils coming along and the new recommendation being 7500k miles before oil change I would be completely dried up if I did not check my dip stick regularly. I actively see smoke coming from the tail pipe when leaving a red light and can smell the burn when exiting the vehicle, which can't be good for the catalytic converter. My car will have rough/surging idle at red lights, has even shut off at one point completely even. I have had to replace O2 sensors and I continue to add 1-2 quarts of oil between oil changes to keep up with the excessive consumption. There was a lawsuit claiming this problem only effected 2010-2013 Equinox however I know numerous Equinox owners with models newer like myself with these same issues. Gm should expand ending with model year 2017 and stop hiding behind the bush.

I was out running errands and I noticed the engine was idling rough and it even stalled twice while I was at stop lights. No indication of anything wrong based on the lights (no check engine light, oil light, etc was lit) but after I got home I noticed an oil leak underneath the engine on my driveway. Got to a local mechanic and they recommended a new engine due to the pcv valve freezing (I live in northern us and it's winter) which caused the rear main oil seal to fail and a massive oil leak. Because of that, I was likely driving with low oil pressure, something that the car should have had a system to tell me but didn't. And I've only got 89,000 miles on it! engines shouldn't be failing that quickly.

When vehicle is up to normal operating temperature engine stalls when trying to go forward or reverse from a stopped position. This is a dangerous vehicle it stall at intersections and at stop lights when accelerating. No check engine light but scan tool indicates intake timing advanced but cam shaft actuator is good.

Rear main seal busted open due to freezing pcv. This year of vehicle is not included in the tbs recall. The cause of the problem, my eingine code, and the repair/the fix, and type of problem is exactly the same as described in tbs 14882. My vehicle should be included in this recall, but it is not.

My vehicle has been having issues for a couple weeks with rough idle and my rpms reving when I let off the gas pedal. On 12/26/20, my vehicle stalled while driving it. Upon restarting it, it was making a loud noise, but no dash lights were on. I had it towed to a shop to see what was going on. The shop informed me that it had lost all of the oil due to a busted main seal. He told me that he had a bulletin that this was a common problem in my vehicle. The seal is busted because the design of my car allows moisture into the manifold which then freezes and busts the seal. It is costing me $1500 to fix the seal and clean the moisture from from the manifold. I am told that there is no way to prevent this from happening again. I am very scared that I will be driving down the road and this will happen again. I have talk to chevy, but nothing has been resolved.

Check engine light came on and the reading is saying that I have a problem with the cam shaft. Vehicle has 60,000 miles on it and exceptional upkeep has been made. This is absolutely ridiculous I will never buy a gm vehicle again because your customer services is repulsive. I am a single person on one income I thought that I had a reliable vehicle but I see now that I don�t.