Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2013

2013 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 66 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 7th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2011 to 2015 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is engine. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Engine · 24% · group n = 20Airbags · 17% · group n = 14Powertrain · 14% · group n = 12Electrical · 7% · group n = 6Structure · 7% · group n = 6
66
Complaint records on file
30,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 47 complaints reported mileage
24%
Of classified component reports name engine · group n = 20
7th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Engine · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Engine24%

Engine reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2013

Reports in this group20
Share of classified reports24%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2012
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
90 matched incidents
This car
2013
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
66 matched incidents
2014
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
53 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 · 13 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32013 Subaru Legacy
Transmission behavior · 12 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 2 of 32013 Subaru Legacy
Engine damage · 7 reports

Reports describe engine damage or oil consumption

Cluster 3 of 32013 Subaru Legacy

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

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