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Chevrolet Camaro 2017

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.94 per 1,000

1.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 66 complaints filed in the first three years, of 188 ever. 95% lower bound 0.71.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2010	0.80	65
2011	0.54	46
2012	0.52	45
2013	0.68	56
2014	0.68	57
2015	0.44	36
2016	0.63	47
2017	0.94	66
2018	0.49	29
2019	0.18	9

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Steering 58 complaints

steering	57	97%
message	12	21%
campaign steering	12	21%
included	11	19%
loss power	10	18%
shut	10	18%

Power Train 54 complaints

hard	16	30%
shudder	10	19%
torque	10	19%

When it breaks

62% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 21,655 miles, from 97 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11022942 · 11029968 · 11030311 · 11033076 · 11035749 · 11042516

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.