Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2008

2008 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 65 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 3th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2006 to 2010 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 30% · group n = 25Brakes · 16% · group n = 13Electrical · 11% · group n = 9Powertrain · 7% · group n = 6Speed control · 6% · group n = 5
65
Complaint records on file
78,256
Median mileage at the reported problem · 46 complaints reported mileage
30%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 25
3th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Airbags · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags30%

Airbags reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2008

Reports in this group25
Share of classified reports30%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 17 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32008 Subaru Legacy
Brake performance · 16 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32008 Subaru Legacy
Electrical faults · 6 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 3 of 32008 Subaru Legacy

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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