Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2012

2012 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 90 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 11th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2010 to 2014 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is powertrain. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Powertrain · 29% · group n = 34Engine · 19% · group n = 23Other · 11% · group n = 13Airbags · 9% · group n = 11Brakes · 6% · group n = 7
90
Complaint records on file
87,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 66 complaints reported mileage
29%
Of classified component reports name powertrain · group n = 34
11th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Powertrain · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Powertrain29%

Powertrain reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2012

Reports in this group34
Share of classified reports29%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2011
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
167 matched incidents
This car
2012
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
90 matched incidents
2013
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
66 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 · 40 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 1 of 32012 Subaru Legacy
Brake performance · 19 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32012 Subaru Legacy
Airbag concerns · 10 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32012 Subaru Legacy

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

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