2014 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: 33.2% of them mention radio, against 9.7% 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 | 10 |
| Involving a fire | 4 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- radio — 33.2% of this year's complaints, against 9.7% across the other years of this generation (3.4×). Owners wrote it as: radio, signal, signals, turn signals.
- turn — 28.9% of this year's complaints, against 8% across the other years of this generation (3.6×).
- ignition — 27.8% of this year's complaints, against 9.1% across the other years of this generation (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: ignition, ignition switch, knee, happens every.
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
THE RADIO MAKES VERY LOUD POPPING NOISE AND ALL POWER CUTS OUT TO THE DISPLAY, TURN SIGNALS, HEATING/COOLING FUNCTIONS. THIS HAPPENS REPEATEDLY EVERY TIME DRIVING THE VEHICLE. THE TRIGGERS ARE USING THE POWER WINDOWS, USING TURN SIGNAL, ADJUSTING HEAT/AC, OR P…
RADIO SHUTS OFF RANDOMLY DURING DRIVING CITY STREETS AND AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS. BLOWERS WILL SOMETIMES SHUT OFF WHEN THE RADIO TURNS OFF. DASH LIGHTS ALSO FLICKER 5-10 TIMES WHEN RADIO SHUTS OFF AND AFTER TURNING THE CAR OFF. WHEN PULLING THE KEY FROM THE IGNITION…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19E064000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V346000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 14V409000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V463000 EQUIPMENT 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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