Federal complaint record · Subaru Legacy · model year 2017

2017 Subaru Legacy

Owners submitted 118 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 17th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2015 to 2019 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is visibility. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Visibility · 26% · group n = 36Electrical · 21% · group n = 29Other · 15% · group n = 21Steering · 6% · group n = 9Airbags · 5% · group n = 7
118
Complaint records on file
31,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 60 complaints reported mileage
26%
Of classified component reports name visibility · group n = 36
17th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 49 model years

Visibility · 3 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Visibility26%

Visibility reports

Subaru Legacy · model year 2017

Reports in this group36
Share of classified reports26%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2016
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
145 matched incidents
This car
2017
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
118 matched incidents
2018
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
116 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 · 23 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 1 of 32017 Subaru Legacy
Steering effort · 6 reports

Reports describe steering effort or control concerns

Cluster 2 of 32017 Subaru Legacy
Airbag concerns · 5 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 3 of 32017 Subaru Legacy

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

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