Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN | |||
| 04/14/2011 | 65000 | ||
| I have had two wheel bearings replaced. front passanger at 65,000 and rear passanger at 73,000. this vehicle has not been in any accidents or treated badly. subaru's in the past have had recalls on this part. i think there is an ongoing issue with this that should be investigated. | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||
| 08/05/2009 | 53543 | 1 | |
| Very intermittent vibration from the transmission or drive-train that started about six weeks ago, culminating with the car shaking violently and the drive-train suddenly locking up all four wheels without warning while driving normally. of course, vehicle control is impossible with all four wheels locked. very fortunately, there were no vehicles following or the consequences could have been fatal at highway speeds. im having the car towed to our local dealer on thursday morning. *tr | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - CONTROL MODULE (TCM, PCM) | |||
| 11/29/2007 | 6000 | 20 | 08/07/2007 |
| On 2 lane hwy, had to brake sharply ( 60 to 10) for deer. semi behind me, not close. deer crossed. floored accelerator, engine sat at redline 3 sec before transmission engaged. semi jacknifed behind us, but did not hit us. this action is repeatable. i suspect it's related to the cruise control downhill failure (un-coupling the torque converter???). *tr | |||
| 09/20/2007 | 2200 | 4 | 01/31/2007 |
| The latest incident date is shown below, the first time of the incident was in feb 07. there have been four occurrences. in each event the automobile was in heavy traffic and had been decelerating for a period of time prior to an immediate need to accelerate to avoid a rapidly approaching vehicle while either making an evasive maneuver due to road obstacles or while merging in congested high speed traffic. upon depressing the accelerator, the engine speeds up to near red line with no accompanying acceleration or engagement of the transmission. after a period of time in excess of one full second to an estimated three seconds the transmission engages and the vehicle begins to accelerate. in each instance, there was a great deal of concern on the part of the drivers (three different ones) that a near accident occurred. when the service department was first notified at the dealership, an explanation of the latest drive by wire transmissions with fuzzy logic, anticipating computer programming was offered. though plausible, it did not seem a very likely normal expectation. the manufacturer was contacted and declared that only the local service department should be trouble shooting the systems. i was assured that they had the ability to work through the manufacturing technical departments, and i had no need to contact them. the service department thoroughly tested the systems, drove it at length, and again assured me that this was a known condition and we should be careful to avoid any situation where any unanticipated rapid changes from deceleration to acceleration would be needed. *tr | |||
| POWER TRAIN - DRIVELINE | |||
| 11/12/2007 | 26000 | 1 | |
| My subaru legacy outback bucks, surges when going on any small or big incline. it occurs all the time.it tends to make me slide more cause of the surges especially when icy or wet. i took it in 3 times to a dealership to fix the problem before the warranty ran out. they told me that they were aware of the 07,08's having this problem. it was in the computer/electronics. they did nothing to fix it. i see that toyota is having problems and ignored this problem. so is subaru. it is a computer defect that subaru said they would eventually fix. it was the computer hooked to the driver's pedal and gas. i sent letters to the main subaru office, talked to the dealership. i didn't know where to go after this. *tr | |||