2010 Chevrolet Camaro
This year drew an ordinary 295 complaints for a Chevrolet Camaro — the model's median is 139. What they were about is the unusual part: 29.2% of them mention timing, against 9.6% across the other years of this generation.
First year of a new generation. The Chevrolet Camaro was redesigned for 2010. A first year carries problems nobody has found yet, and they are found by the people who buy it — which is worth knowing before you become one of them.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 295 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 139 |
| Involving a crash | 19 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- timing — 29.2% of this year's complaints, against 9.6% across the other years of this generation (3×). Owners wrote it as: timing, chain, timing chain, code.
- doing — 7.8% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: doing, research, doing some.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
P0008 & P0017 ENGINE CODE ON 3.6 V 6 DIAGNOSED BY DEALER TO BE STRETCHED TIMING CHAINS. 52,724 MILES COST TO FIX $3000. OTHER GM VEHICLES WITH THE SAME ENGINE EXTENDED WARRANTY OF 10 YEARS 120,000 MILES. CAMARO NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN RECALL.
CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CODE P0008 & P0017. DEALER DIAGNOSED NEEDS TIMING CHAINS ON 3.6 V6. MILAGE 52,724 COST APPROX $3,000. NOT COVERED UNDER WARRANTY. OTHER GM MODELS WITH 3.6 V6 ENGINES COVERED 10 YEARS 120,000 MILES UNDER CUSTOMER SATISFACTION PROGRAM 10287. C…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 19E064000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V346000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 09V155000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Camaro was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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