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2013 Cadillac ATS

Complaints about this year name engine far more often than the model's other years — 19% of them, about 3× the usual rate of 6.1%.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Also unusual this year

• neutral — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
• stall — 9% of complaints, 22× usual
• stalling — 9% of complaints, 22× usual

What owners wrote

VEHICLE STALLED QUIETLY WHEN COMING TO STOP WITH VEHICLE IN NEUTRAL AND/OR CLUTCH DEPRESSED. I SAY QUIETLY BECAUSE I DID NOT HEAR OR FEEL IT SHUT OFF. (DIFFERENT FROM STALLING VEHICLE DUE TO IMPROPER FOOT WORK ON THE CLUTCH) WHEN I WENT TO TURN LEFT I REALIZED…

Car keeps cutting off, when put in neutral, or just cutting on RPM goes up then goes down and cut off, when driving car starts off slow then speed up. put a new fuel pump in the car.

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

Recalls for this year

• 15V463000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 15V558000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
• 14V446000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 14V488000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.
• 14V338000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
• 13V220000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Cadillac ATS was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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