Federal complaint record · Volkswagen Passat · model year 2017

2017 Volkswagen Passat

Owners submitted 107 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 15th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2015 to 2019 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 16% · group n = 28Driver assistance · 16% · group n = 28Other · 13% · group n = 22Brakes · 10% · group n = 17Electrical · 10% · group n = 17
107
Complaint records on file
28,200
Median mileage at the reported problem · 50 complaints reported mileage
16%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 28
15th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 49 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags16%

Airbags reports

Volkswagen Passat · model year 2017

Reports in this group28
Share of classified reports16%
Component groups on file6
Open the failure files

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 28 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32017 Volkswagen Passat
Steering effort · 22 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32017 Volkswagen Passat
Airbag concerns · 6 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32017 Volkswagen Passat

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

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