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2013 Chevrolet EQUINOX Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	1689293
Internal NHTSA #	11354360
Manufacurer	General Motors LLC
Brand	CHEVROLET
Model	EQUINOX
Model Year	2013
File date	20/07/20
Component	ENGINE
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	A year and half ago i lost all of my oil and it blew out my timing chain. I was told that i have bad piston rings and that the ecotec engines with that year wear out very fast. I did not have the money to get the piston rings replaced so i told the mechanic to just replace everything but the piston rings. He just said that i need to watch the oil level and that i could add some if i started to burn oil again. Another year went by and as i was driving on a freeway, i got an error message on my dashboard saying the engine was "powering down" and i started loosing speed very fast. I pulled into a gas station and checked my oil level and sure enough, i had very little oil. So i poured some in and that seem to be ok. A couple weeks later, my equinox started to smoke when i was driving on the highway. I pulled to the side and popped the hood to see oil spilling onto the manifold. I let the car cool down and added some more oil so i could get to work. A co-worker of mine helped me investigate and noticed that the timing chain had ate through the guarding which caused the oil to spill out of the top of the guarding.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	126000
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Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	GREEN BAY, WI
VIN pattern	2GNALDEK1D6XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?	N
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Date of purchase	29/06/24
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	70
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A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2013 Chevrolet EQUINOX Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2013 Chevrolet EQUINOX Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects

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What is Failure?

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