Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2016

2016 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 145 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 23th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2014 to 2018 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is electrical. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Electrical · 27% · group n = 51Other · 21% · group n = 41Visibility · 9% · group n = 18Steering · 8% · group n = 16Powertrain · 7% · group n = 13
145
Complaint records on file
35,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 81 complaints reported mileage
27%
Of classified component reports name electrical · group n = 51
23th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Electrical · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Electrical27%

Electrical reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2016

Reports in this group51
Share of classified reports27%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

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2015
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
159 matched incidents
This car
2016
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
145 matched incidents
2017
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
118 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 · 26 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 32016 Subaru Legacy
Brake performance · 12 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 2 of 32016 Subaru Legacy
Transmission behavior · 10 reports

Reports describe harsh shifting, slipping, or shuddering

Cluster 3 of 32016 Subaru Legacy

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

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