2018 Chevrolet Camaro
This year drew an ordinary 216 complaints for a Chevrolet Camaro — the model's median is 139. What they were about is the unusual part: 25% of them mention window, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Chevrolet Camaro, which began in 2016. 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 | 216 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 139 |
| Involving a crash | 15 |
| Involving a fire | 12 |
| Recalls | 2 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- window — 25% of this year's complaints, against 8.6% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: window, glass, convertible, separated.
- shop — 25.9% of this year's complaints, against 10.1% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: shop, rear window, company, pump failure.
- holds — 6.9% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the other years of this generation (8.5×). Owners wrote it as: holds, exhaust, weld, poor.
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
CONVERTIBLE TOP REAR WINDOW DELAMINATES DUE TO FAULTY DESIGN AND/OR INSUFFICIENT BONDING OF GLASS TO FABRIC MATERIAL OF TOP. THIS HAS HAPPENED TO MY CAR TWICE WITHIN LESS THAN A YEAR. TOP WAS REPLACED ONCE AND NOW I NEED IT REPLACED AGAIN. GLASS COULD POTENTIA…
Glass window in rear of convertible top is separating from the top. I am concerned it will completely separate while driving and strike another vehicle on the highway. The issue was there when purchased (NEW from dealer), just did not know what the bubbles mea…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V211000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 25V175000 STEERING 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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