Fuel pump failure on the 2013 Chevrolet Impala
Only 7 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 fuel pump failure gets reported
There are 7 reports of fuel pump failure on the 2013 Chevrolet Impala, 7 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 14th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 86,028 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 $600–$2,600 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 13 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 1,000 miles, and latest on the 2006 at 160,000 miles.
By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2013 has 7. 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.
While heading south on ohio i675 just south of i35, the gas was no longer being pumped to the engine. I was in the outside lane and was able to get the car to the breakdown lane on the right side without incident, but the car was almost stopped by the time I got it to the breakdown lane. I called aaa and then lang's auto dealership to make sure I could get the car in on a saturday. Aaa responded quickly and replaced the fuse for the fuel pump since this was the second occurrence, the first while driving. The car was able to make it to lang's. They found that the drain wire in connector x200 a1 shorted to circuit 3640 a3 in x200. The fix was to re-position the drain wire to not contact the fscm wire terminal at x200. Doc id 2585199 location k-16. Had several communications with lang's service and discovered that the mechanic knew the fix since he had done this before. I asked the service manager to report this to gm to hopefully create a recall for this issue. From the service manager: the wiring repair was done at a connector in the right lower hush panel area by the lower door hinge. The technician found this do to experience and…
Tl* the contact owns a 2013 chevrolet impala. While driving 25 MPH without warning, the vehicle lost power and stalled. The contact was unable to restart the vehicle. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic to be diagnosed. The contact was informed that the fuel pump and fuel sending unit needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 60,936.
"takata recall" I purchased a 2013 chevrolet impala 02/2015. One month later my car stopped in me. I got the car towed to serra chevrolet. They said I was out of gas which I didn't believe cause I was at qtr of tank. They said with the kind of engine I had qtr of a tank meant empty in my car. I didn't believe this. In 02/2016, on my way to work, my car stop on the interstate. I got the car towed to serra chevrolet again. They said my fuel pump sensor and something else was gone. They used my extended warranty that I purchased w/ serra toyota when I bought the vehicle. I lost my job due to this problem with this car. In 02/2017, the car stopped on me again. I got the car towed again to serra on 02/03/17. They said it was my fuel pump sensor. I had to pay $420.21 out of pocket on 02/09 to get my car. They said my extended warranty had expired. I don't understand cause my powertrain warranty haven't expired, I'm also still paying for an extended warranty with my carnote but I can't utilize, and I only used the extended warranty once. On 02/13/17 after I got my car from serra my car stop while I was driving again. I contacted serra…
Also reported on the 2013 Chevrolet Impala
Other driver assistance problem
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
ABS module or sensor failure
Other wheel or tire problem
Other powertrain problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 7 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 7 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 fuel pump failure happen on the 2013 Chevrolet Impala?
Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 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 fuel pump failure on the 2013 Chevrolet Impala?
7 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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