MileageCurve What breaks, and at what mileage

What breaks, and at what mileage

Vehicle reliability from 2,116,934 owner complaints filed with NHTSA — organised by model generation, and showing when failures happen rather than just how many.

Most reliability sites count complaints. The count tells you a car has a problem; it does not tell you whether that problem arrives at 3,000 miles or 130,000 — and those are completely different cars to own. Of 2,116,934 complaints in this dataset, 1,108,272 record the mileage at which the failure occurred, which is enough to show the distribution.

Sometimes that distribution has two peaks. A manufacturing defect that shows up at delivery and ordinary wear a hundred thousand miles later are two separate problems that share one name in a complaint database. An average hides that. On this site, 25 generations show it plainly.

318 generations covered

Acura

Audi

Bmw

Buick

Cadillac

Chevrolet

Chrysler

Dodge

Ford

Gmc

Honda

Hyundai

Infiniti

Jeep

Kia

Lexus

Lincoln

Mazda

Mercury

Mitsubishi

Nissan

Oldsmobile

Pontiac

Saturn

Subaru

Toyota

Volkswagen

Volvo