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2005 Chevrolet Impala wipers, windshield & visibility problems

Owners reported wipers, windshield & visibility problems in 21 complaints for the 2005 Chevrolet Impala, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
21 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
100,000 miles 17 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
2 and 3
Injuries and deaths
4 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When wipers, windshield & visibility problems show up

Wipers, windshield & visibility complaints by mileage, 2005 Chevrolet Impala Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 100,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 1 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 1 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 1 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 5 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 1 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 2 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 3 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 2 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 100,000 miles
Based on 17 complaints that include mileage. 18% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles1
20k to 40k miles1
40k to 60k miles1
60k to 80k miles5
80k to 100k miles1
100k to 120k miles2
120k to 140k miles3
140k to 160k miles2
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 17 wipers, windshield & visibility complaints that report mileage, the median is about 100,000 miles, and 18% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 2 crashes, 3 fires, 4 injuries.

What owners wrote

Driving down the road head wipers on wipers quit for no reason come to the stop sign tried turning it off and on a few times then once you take off the car would not move and then lunged forward and hit the person in front.

Reported at 159,345 miles, March 2014 CrashInjury

The heat on the driver side of my car will not come on but the passenger side blows like a champ. I took it to the chevy dealership and they said the door that flows cold and hot air is stuck on cool air and since its a dual air vehicle one side is blowing hot the other cold. I am very surprised this is not a recall since there are over 1,000 complaints on this one part please do something about this; I've been a long time chevy owner and I understand that things happen after driving but this is really not a…

Reported at 99,542 miles, October 2011

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