Chevrolet Equinox — Second generation (Theta) (2010–2017)

The second-generation Chevrolet Equinox covers the 2010 to 2017 model years as a crossover in front- and all-wheel drive. GM Authority dates its launch to the 2010 model year, gives the CAMI, Oshawa and Spring Hill plants and a six-speed automatic as the only gearbox, and names the engines as the 2.4L LAF and 3.0L V6 LF1 at launch, the 2.4L LEA from 2012 and the 3.6L V6 LFX from 2013 (the official 2013 RPO changes delete a 3.0L V6 coded LFW). The NICB VIN manuals print LS, 1LT, 2LT and LTZ lines for 2010 to 2014, add an L line for 2015, give L, LS, LT and LTZ for 2016, and L, LS, LT (also LT/FL) and Premier for 2017. GM's 2015 fleet order guide (Wayback Machine capture) is the only factory page in the archive; the 2017 rows come from GM's 2017 order guide, read as GM Authority's copy, and the 2012, 2013 and 2016 rows from the official RPO-level change lists GM Authority prints for 2013, 2016 and 2017 (a code a list deletes for the next year is shown for the year before).

Gaps: no GM list or guide in the archive or found online covers 2010, 2011 or 2014, so those years rest on GM Authority's engine notes alone (single-source rows), and many codes shown for 2015 or 2017 only will have been offered in other years. Where the 2015 guide capture loses one trim mark of a row (the "included in equipment group" symbol prints as nothing), the row's Notes say so and do not assign the trims. GM Authority's Equinox page names the GMC Terrain among the platform's other models; the Terrain's guides are not used here.

Codes

Engines

Transmissions

Axles

Packages & Trims

Equipment

Paint

Interior Trim

Internal / Process

Sources

Factory documents (T1)

• chevrolet/2015-chevrolet-equinox-fleet-order-guide-wayback.txt — 2015 Chevrolet Equinox — GM Fleet Order Guide (Wayback Machine captures, archival-verified)

Other sources

• NICB VIN manuals in docs/reference/nicb/ (nicb2010-gm.txt p.97, nicb2011-gm.txt p.79, nicb2012-gm.txt p.156-157, nicb2013-gm.txt p.151, nicb2014-gm.txt p.147, nicb2015-gm.txt p.153, nicb2016-gm.txt p.158, nicb2017-gm.txt p.162-163, nicb2018-gm.txt p.168): Equinox trim and drive lines by year; they print no RPO codes.
• https://gmauthority.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2017-Chevrolet-Equinox-order-guide.pdf — GM's 2017 Chevrolet Equinox order guide (42 pages, published March 25, 2016), GM Authority's copy; downloaded 2026-10-14 with curl through the shared throttle (one request, HTTP 200, a PDF; no login wall, CAPTCHA or terms barring access) and read with pdftotext. Source of every 2017 row (T2, a GM document not yet in the repository).
• https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/equinox/2016-equinox/ — GM Authority's 2016 Chevrolet Equinox page, which prints GM's official RPO-level changes for 2016; read 2026-10-14 through the Firecrawl CLI (direct fetches of gmauthority.com return HTTP 403; the owner allows Firecrawl for it), one request through the shared throttle; no block, login wall or CAPTCHA. Used for the 2016 additions and for the 2016 deletions, which confirm those codes for 2015.
• https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/equinox/2017-equinox/ — GM Authority's 2017 Chevrolet Equinox page, which prints GM's official RPO-level changes for 2017 and links the 2017 order guide; read 2026-10-14 through the Firecrawl CLI, one request through the shared throttle; no block. Used for the 2017 deletions (GWT, GXG, RV8 shown for 2016) and additions (G7Q, PDR, PDT, 2FL).
• https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/equinox/2013-equinox/ — GM Authority's 2013 Chevrolet Equinox page, which prints the official RPO-level changes for 2013; read 2026-10-14 through the Firecrawl CLI, one request through the shared throttle; no block. Used for the 2013 additions and the 2013 deletions (GAO, GHA, GLB, LFW shown for 2012).
• https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/chevrolet/equinox/ — GM Authority's Chevrolet Equinox page; read 2026-10-14 through the Firecrawl CLI, one request through the shared throttle; no block. Used for the launch year, plants, gearbox and the LAF, LF1, LEA and LFX engine years (it does not credit GM for its codes).
• GM Authority year pages tried on 2026-10-14 that do not exist (the site answered with its "page not found" text through Firecrawl): …/equinox/2011-equinox/, …/2012-equinox/, …/2014-equinox/, …/2015-equinox/. Nothing in this doc rests on them.