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ABS module or sensor failure on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt

Only 1 report 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 1
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $500–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 26th

When abs module or sensor failure gets reported

There are 1 report of ABS module or sensor failure on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt, 1 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 95,000 miles. It is the 26th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 1 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 50,000 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

Putting it right typically runs $500–$2,400 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, every year of the Chevrolet Volt

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.

Median
  1. 2013 Chevrolet Volt abs module or sensor failure 800
  2. 2014 (this one) 50k
  3. 2018 Chevrolet Volt abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

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 suddenly totally lost braking power at a stop sign. Was at about 30mph when I tried to apply brakes. I cross the street at good speed and car finally stops about 100 meters away. Display messages: regenerative braking disable, service your brakes, service stabilitrack. Warning light: ABS, stabilitrack and maybe others. I then drive this car very slowly in this condition for 5 km. The brake pedal was up and very firm. At home, I shot off car and plug it. One hour later, it was back in perfectly normal condition, no warning light and no message. Test drive show good brakes. I bring the car to the dealer on monday. They found one hidden to customer (no check engine) code, c12e6. They follow instruction and replace ABS module. They told me that if I get same problem again they will replace ABS pump. I argue with no luck that I cannot go away driving a car with possible sudden brake lost issue. I then contacted gm (volt advisor) with no better results. Gm apparently study my case for 3 months. After that, advisor call me and ask if I have lost brakes again. She said since you haven't lost brakes for 3 months, we consider your car to…

50,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1371476 filed 2017-04-17

Also reported on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt

Other electrical problem

19 reports median 49k

Other fuel system problem

13 reports median 33k

Other engine problem

10 reports median 42k

Other steering problem

4 reports median 51k

Other body or interior problem

4 reports median 90k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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 abs module or sensor failure happen on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt?

Across 1 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 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 abs module or sensor failure on the 2014 Chevrolet Volt?

1 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