Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2019

2019 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 122 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 32th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2017 to 2021 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is visibility. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Visibility · 36% · group n = 51Electrical · 25% · group n = 35Other · 14% · group n = 20Driver assistance · 6% · group n = 8Engine · 4% · group n = 5
122
Complaint records on file
5,813
Median mileage at the reported problem · 42 complaints reported mileage
36%
Of classified component reports name visibility · group n = 51
32th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 46 model years

Visibility · 4 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Visibility36%

Visibility reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2019

Reports in this group51
Share of classified reports36%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2018
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
116 matched incidents
This car
2019
0.5complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
122 matched incidents
2020
0.7complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
121 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
Electrical faults · 25 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 22019 Subaru Legacy
Brake performance · 7 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 22019 Subaru Legacy

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

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