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Other electrical problem on the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro

3 crashes 3 fires 1 injury 7 of the 64 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.

Reports of this failure 64
With an odometer reading 46
Reports per 1,000 built 1.4 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 39%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 7
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 1st

When other electrical problem gets reported

Owners of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro report other electrical problem at a median of 42,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 22,500 miles and a quarter after 67,500 miles, from 46 reports that carried an odometer reading.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 85,000 miles. It is the 1st most-reported problem on this model year.

The mileage distribution

The reported range runs from 7,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 87,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 79,940 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.

39% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 46 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
8,060 miles 21,725 miles 41,500 miles 68,000 miles 88,000 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, 3 a crash, 3 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 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.

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

As I was turning the corner on to woodward avenue my car just shut down. The car went totally black and shut down in the middle of the turn on this very busy-main thoroughfare. *tr

20,593 miles NHTSA complaint 1058228 filed 2014-04-20

Cr turn-off while driving. Unable to restart and lost use of power steering and brakes. Although a recall has been reported. To date, there has not been any letter from manufacturer, and the dealer will not take the car because it has not been provided a corrective action. *tr

3,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1078553 filed 2014-06-23

Air conditioner stopped working, radio and screen stopped working, lights on dash stopped working, would not allow me to add fuel. The car was on empty and as I tried to pump gas, the gas would come back out. 2nd incident on august 22, 2014 - air conditioner would not work, lights on dash would not work 3rd incident on august 24, 2014 - air conditioner, radio and screen and all power controls inside the control would not work. 4th incident - august 26th - air conditioner stopped working mileage as of now on car 2,600 miles. *tr

1,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1102968 filed 2014-08-27

Also reported on the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro

Other steering problem

20 reports median 31k

Other engine problem

13 reports median 21k

Audio or connectivity failure

11 reports median 50k

Other powertrain problem

11 reports median 9k

Air conditioning failure

9 reports median 46k

How far this goes

Complaints are voluntary, so 64 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 2014 Chevrolet Camaro?

Across 46 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 42,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 22,500 miles and a quarter after 67,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other electrical problem on the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro?

64 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.4 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