Other electrical problem on the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro
1 crash 1 fire 1 injury 3 of the 12 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
Only 6 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When other electrical problem gets reported
There are 12 reports of other electrical problem on the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 37,250 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash, 1 a fire and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2002, at a median of 3 miles, and latest on the 1999 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2014 carries the most reports, with 64; the 2012 has 12. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I was driving the car to the gas station to get a drink. When I pulled in I shut the car off removed the key and locked the doors. When I came back out my car was on fire. Fire department had to be called to put out the fire. Fire department deemed the fire to be caused by the electrical system. *tr
I started to have an issue with the ignition in my car. At all different times the key would stick and not turn in the car. I brought it in and told hem and they aid it was the way I was starting it. That the wheels were not straight. This was not the case as it happened at all different times and I now the wheels need to be straight. I continued to have problems until this day. A few months ago when I was at a dealership in fl where I moved I had such a bad experience and no help for a continued break issues I printed paperwork to file for a lemon law yet have not pursued this as of now. Today I received a safety recall on the ignition. This is very troubling to me as I have said since my car was new that there was something seriously wrong with this in my car yet no one would help me. Now with the recall notice and the brake issue I am wanting to pursue the lemon law. Please advise on what I should do. *tr
As my 2012 camaro has been issued a VIN recall, I want to let chevrolet, the public at large and my local chevy dealership in colorado that I am utterly disgusted with the offered treatment of this recall stated as "remedy: dealers are to provide two replacement key rings. Vehicles with slotted keys will also receive key inserts." my reasons for not being satisfied with this description is because having my keys cut off the remote control and given secondary keys as another thing to keep track of is not what was paid for when purchasing the vehicle. Why should I settle for a fix (that is substandard to what originally came with the vehicle)? Why should I settle for whatever gm decides to give me as replacement in order for them to comply with that which they should have complied with to begin with? In my eyes, chevrolet is seeking a quick fix in order for them to save dollars and what do I get in return for the thousands I paid them? I get a substandard replacement of a necessary item. A cosmetic debacle so that chevy can comply with the 465,000 vehicles they continued to allow on the road "as is" until caught by the law. Now I…
Also reported on the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro
Other engine problem
Other body or interior problem
Other powertrain problem
Blower motor or climate control failure
Timing chain, belt or tensioner failure
Torque converter failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 12 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
Complaints are voluntary, so 12 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other electrical problem happen on the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 35,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other electrical problem on the 2012 Chevrolet Camaro?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed