Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2015

2015 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 159 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 23th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2013 to 2017 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is visibility. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Visibility · 18% · group n = 41Electrical · 16% · group n = 37Other · 13% · group n = 29Engine · 10% · group n = 24Fuel system · 7% · group n = 15
159
Complaint records on file
16,070
Median mileage at the reported problem · 104 complaints reported mileage
18%
Of classified component reports name visibility · group n = 41
23th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Visibility · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Visibility18%

Visibility reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2015

Reports in this group41
Share of classified reports18%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2014
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
53 matched incidents
This car
2015
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
159 matched incidents
2016
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
145 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
Brake performance · 16 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32015 Subaru Legacy
Electrical faults · 15 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 2 of 32015 Subaru Legacy
Stalling or shutdown · 15 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32015 Subaru Legacy

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

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