Other driver assistance problem on the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro
When other driver assistance problem gets reported
Owners of the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro report other driver assistance problem at a median of 30,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 500 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 45,000 miles. It is the 8th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 200 miles at the tenth percentile to 70,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 71,881 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
63% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 163 miles | 489 miles | 31,500 miles | 42,750 miles | 72,044 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
Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,800 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 7 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 60,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
The vehicle is equipped with a "hill assist" feature for manual transmission cars. It does not release properly or activates improperly. The vehicle holds excessively long on inclines, will not release when trying to pull into traffic or even activates on level ground with no incline! I have complained multiple times to the general motors service department when I take it in for service and it has been checked repeatedly. It is always "operating as designed!" I have had multiple conversations with the service personnel including the shop supervisor and they all know it is an ongoing issue with these vehicles! It seems to be a joke that the system operates so poorly except that I believe it is inevitable that it will cause an accident. Either to myself or to someone else. The message boards are full of complaints about this feature and it is universally despised by everyone on every vehicle it is installed on! I have asked for it to be repaired or removed by the dealer yet they tell me they are unable to do so. The message boards have found a work around solution to the problem by installing a yaw sensor without the lateral…
I have a manual v8 model. Whenever stopped on an incline, the hill start assist (hsa) engages. The first time I gave it plenty of throttle and the brakes would not disengage and caused me to stall. The 2nd time, I had the RPM very high and again the brakes would not disengage. My car was jumping up and down under the strain. When it finally released the car, I was greeted with the smell of burning clutch. This cannot be normal. I don't think hitting 2000 RPM and dropping the clutch should be a normal method to overcome teh hsa system. I have auto hill braking on other vehicles that are nearly invisible to me and work flawlessly. I been driving manual cars for 20+ years and have no issues on hill starts. One of the biggest issues is there is no way to turn off the hsa feature. I think you need to force gm to recalibrate the system and/or allow the driver to turn the hsa feature off. *tr
This is my second complaint about the hill assist feature on this manual transmission vehicle. The feature is designed to automatically hold the brakes on an incline and is supposed to release on application of the throttle. It does not work as it should! It engages randomly even when not on an incline and does not release quickly enough to prevent engine stalling or excessive wear to the clutch by over revving the engine to prevent it from stalling! This cause a burning smell and excessive wear to the clutch! It is very dangerous in that I have to pull out onto a busy highway from an incline every day where I live and have to try to over compensate for the delay in getting this hill assist to release so I can pull out into traffic moving at 55 MPH! I have had it to the selling dealer (carl black chevrolet) multiple times and spoken with chevrolet customer service! They all acknowledge that there is an issue! It has been written about extensively in the camaro :forums online! The refuse to fix the issue! They tell me to buy aftermarket parts to solve the problem when there are general motors parts available to fix it! I finally…
Also reported on the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro
Other electrical problem
Tail light, brake light or signal failure
Other steering problem
Infotainment screen failure
Other powertrain problem
Ignition switch, key fob or immobilizer failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 8 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 driver assistance problem happen on the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 30,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 500 miles and a quarter after 45,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other driver assistance problem on the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro?
8 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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