Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2009

2009 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 65 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 7th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 41% · group n = 31Brakes · 12% · group n = 9Engine · 11% · group n = 8Structure · 7% · group n = 5Electrical · 5% · group n = 4
65
Complaint records on file
72,486
Median mileage at the reported problem · 44 complaints reported mileage
41%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 31
7th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Airbags · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags41%

Airbags reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2009

Reports in this group31
Share of classified reports41%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2008
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
65 matched incidents
This car
2009
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
65 matched incidents
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
150 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Airbag concerns · 27 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 22009 Subaru Legacy
Brake performance · 10 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 22009 Subaru Legacy

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

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