Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2011

2011 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 167 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 25th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2009 to 2013 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 20% · group n = 47Engine · 12% · group n = 28Airbags · 11% · group n = 25Other · 9% · group n = 20Electrical · 8% · group n = 19
167
Complaint records on file
77,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 119 complaints reported mileage
20%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 47
25th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Powertrain · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain20%

Powertrain reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2011

Reports in this group47
Share of classified reports20%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2010
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
150 matched incidents
This car
2011
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
167 matched incidents
2012
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
90 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
Stalling or shutdown · 52 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32011 Subaru Legacy
Airbag concerns · 15 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32011 Subaru Legacy
Steering effort · 15 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 3 of 32011 Subaru Legacy

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

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