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Stalling while driving on the 2017 Chevrolet Volt

Only 0 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.

Reports of this failure 8
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 1.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$2,500
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 18th

When stalling while driving gets reported

There are 8 reports of stalling while driving on the 2017 Chevrolet Volt. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 18th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,500 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

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. 2012 Chevrolet Volt stalling while driving 12k
  2. 2013 Chevrolet Volt stalling while driving 33k
  3. 2016 Chevrolet Volt stalling while driving
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 2017 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2018 Chevrolet Volt stalling while driving
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2019 Chevrolet Volt stalling while driving 2k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2017 Chevrolet Volt

Other electrical problem

177 reports median 37k

Other powertrain problem

156 reports median 34k

Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure

133 reports median 63k

DPF, EGR or DEF system failure

124 reports median 43k

Other fuel system problem

92 reports median 33k

Other engine problem

73 reports median 26k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 8 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 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.

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