2013 Chevrolet Camaro
This year drew an ordinary 187 complaints for a Chevrolet Camaro — the model's median is 139. What they were about is the unusual part: 32.1% of them mention radio, against 9.5% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Chevrolet Camaro, which began in 2010 and ran to 2015. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 187 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 139 |
| Involving a crash | 20 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 19 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- radio — 32.1% of this year's complaints, against 9.5% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: radio, signals, turn signals, happens.
- turn — 29.4% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the other years of this generation (3.7×).
- randomly — 10.2% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: randomly, thousands, lid, trunk lid.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
I OWN A 2013 CHEVY CAMARO 2LS COUPE. I HAVE HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH MY CAR UNTIL TWO DAYS AGO WHEN THE TEMP OUTSIDE DROPPED TO 30 DEGREES. WHEN I CRANK MY CAR THE RADIO FLICKERS AND STOPS WORKING RANDOMLY WITH LOUD POPS FROM THE SPEAKERS, THE BLINKERS STOP MAKING…
RADIO CUTS ON AND OFF. RADIO WON'T TURN ON ATA ALL AND WHEN RADIO IS OFF BLINKER CLICK NOISE WON'T SOUND, DOOR OPEN WON'T SOUND, AND SOUND SIGNALING YOU LEFT KEYS IN IGNITION WON'T SOUND. SOUND INDICATING REVERSE IS ENGAGED ALSO WON'T SOUND. THIS HAPPENS WHEN…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19E064000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V346000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 13V463000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 23V516000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Camaro 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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