Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - CONTROL MODULE (TCM, PCM) | |||
| 05/15/2006 | 1 | 05/15/2006 | |
| My wife and leased two new 2006 subaru foresters in may 2006. since we obtained the vehicles both exhibited a hesitation when attempting to accelerate. we brought the vehicles to the dealership three times to have the problem corrected, but they were unable to do so. i then contacted subaru customer service to report the problem. i did not get any satisfaction. i then sent two letters to the president of subaru. customer service contacted me again and said that my problem was characteristic of this vehicle, and that there is nothing wrong with them since tests showed everything operating according to specification. i finally got the factory representative to examine both of my vehicles and he stated the same as customer service. needless to say i find this unacceptable. subaru says that they cannot correct this problem and they will not replace the vehicles. they offered me $1,500 per vehicle if i were to trade them in for new subarus. i find this unacceptable since this amont would not cover the expenses of breaking the existing leases and leasing two new vehicles. i feel that this hesitation proble is a safety hazard since you have to concern yourrself with the hesitation when accelerating in traffic. *ak | |||
| POWER TRAIN - MANUAL TRANSMISSION | |||
| 11/15/2005 | 180 | 1 | 10/30/2005 |
| This is a repeatable event that could lead to an injury: purchased a new 2006 subaru forester 2.5x end of october 2005. after approx. two weeks car began to experience unexpected engine rpm increases immediately after a cold start. when car is first started, engine rpms are at around 1500. put car into reverse and back out of parking space. when the clutch is depressed, engine rpms shoot up to 3000+. then, after putting car in 1st gear, and releasing clutch, engine rpms drop to about 1500 but slowly increase to around 2500-3000 rpm and vehicle speed increases without foot even being on the accelerator. problem usually clears up after driving a few minutes except on one occasion when car had been operating for around 15 minutes... when i came home for lunch and pulled into our drive and put in the clutch, the rpms shot up to around 3000. turning the vehicle off and restarting will reset the rpms to around 1500 until it is put in gear once again and the clutch depressed. a couple of times this happened: after the rpms shot up to 3000+, i kept the clutch pressed to see how long the rpms would stay around 3000. the rpms did a decaying sinusoidal oscillation of about 6 cycles over a period of about 30-45 seconds, finally leveling out arount 1500 rpm. *nm | |||