Subaru Forester

"Battery gave out. Had to replace it shortly after purchase"

"Windshield needed replacement due to crack"

"Leave the car for a few weeks and battery goes dead. Grrrr"

""Twice in the last 12 months, it has suddenly just shut off while driving, while I was slowing down then had to accelerate. I braked, put it in park and restarted it. The dealer could find nothing wrong.""

"Factory installed tires lasted 25000 miles-very low"

"OEM tires were skidding in the snow and less grip in rain by less than 25,000 miles - way too soon compared to OEM tires on my 2014 Impreza or earlier cars for decades before that. Found very poor quality OEM tires on the Forester - very unexpected and consider this to be a serious safety issue. Note: I always rotate every 6000 miles and take care to keep them properly inflated. I usually get 40000 miles at least from OEM tires before they are noticeably becoming not as good in snow."

"Battery going dead twice; having trouble from stopped to having to accelerate after being at stoplight."

"The windshield cracked very easily. It got a small ding that spread twice within six months. I had to replace it. I later learned there was a recall on it."

""Occasionally, the car will not restart while were waiting at a stoplight.""

"Air bag sensor issues, it was recalled with no replacement parts. It was at a dealer for four months until Subaru shipped the parts. A loaner car was provided."

"Passenger side mirror motor would not take the mirror to the up position. The Subaru dealer replaced the full mirror assembly using the extended warranty I purchased when buying the car. I was about 5 months past the cars original warranty"

"easily cracked front windshield"

"tires lasted 25k"

"computer on it a bit messed up. ALSO, way too complicated...have not figured out even 1/4 of the plentitude of options"

"Windshield is very prone to rock chips and crack"

""gas pedal quite working, replaced it.""

"A computer problem with the thermostat cause the car to shut down. It was covered under warranty."

"Approximately 10 months ago my tires seemed louder than usual but the treads looked fine. About 7 months ago I decided to get new tires. It didn't help the sound. The sound grew louder & louder. My visiting nephew suggested it could be my wheel bearings. I took it into my local auto repair place. It was my wheel bearings. My Subaru is nice and quiet again. I've never had wheel bearing problems before, this was a new one for me!"

""It has stalled several times when starting from a full stop. I think it may be related to the auto start-stop feature. We typically turn that feature off, but we have to do it every time we drive.""

"Windshield cracked after small stone hit windshield while driving on the highway. I was advised later that Subaru Forester windshields have more than average problems of this kind because they are substandard."

"Drivers front window repeated failed to close and would reopen when it should have stayed closed - warranty replacement of window lift assembly solved the problem although it was recently noted to have happened again."

"Battery dead due to faulty wire in the hatch light. Wrong size battery for optimal performance."

"I had to have a new starter installed"

"Engine thermostat regulator"

""When connecting either an iPhone or Android phone to the car via USB-C, we have had intermittent issues with the connection randomly dropping, sometimes while driving for 10-30 minutes, sometimes after hours of driving. Changing cables makes little difference. About 20% of the time the phone will not connect at all when plugged in, especially the iPhone. Bluetooth pairing has no issues, just Android Auto and Apple CarPlay connections are not always reliable.""

""this is so glitchy. there's a lot to be desired her and though is a huge improvement to the lack of a system, the whole screen has had to be replaced and minor app tweaks and adjustments sometimes require car software updates. it's not foolproof and needs work but i imagine that's an apple problem and not the car""

""Despite keeping current on software updates for both our vehicle and our phones, ACP is just fluky. It works most of the time, but will occasionally disconnect and require that we unplug our phone and start over. Not sure where to include this but two other basic programming frustrations: 1) back up warning system can't differentiate between objects getting closer (like other parked cars or fence post) and objects maintaining their distance (like an installed bike rack or connected trailer). 2) once seat belt alarm starts beeping it will not stop until seat belt is fastened, even if you put the vehicle in park and set the parking brake...either have to shut the engine off entirely or fasten the belt...not always convenient, should time-out or recognize that vehicle is in park and not going anywhere.""

"The navigation interface only works intermittently and drops a lot"

"See comments under radio"

""Search said the fastest way to reset was to unclip the battery, then refasten it. That seems excessive.""

"Apple car play a Times does not engage. System seems to be confused when switching between radio and Apple CarPlay."

""car battery would die if car was not run for as little as two weeks (like parked at the airport)...turns out the DCM was faulty, but so was the battery (subaru had a class action lawsuit that included our battery but was settled up to model year 2020, so we were outside of settlement class). Both parts eventually replaced under warranty, but not w/o multiple visits to dealership and a LOT of work...dealing with corporate customer service was actually much more frustrating experience than with local dealership...we definitely were not "feeling the love".""

"After some wrangling, Subaru replaced the display head unit which corrected the problems with radio and display. Subaru ultimately paid for everything, and it all works well again."

"The manufacturer issued update failed to fix an existing issue with being able to pair the iPhone with the system. The problem was solved very quickly by bringing the car in for service and the service department did the update with no charge."

"It took forever for my phone to pair. It has mysteriously 'unpaired' and I've had to repeat the pairing."

""Lost all audio (radio,CD,phone) for no apparent reason. Screen showed radio was working. Searched You-Tube and tried all the easy fixes to no avail. Made a dealer appt three days out for service. In the interim, received notifcation that Subaru was extending the warranty on the audio head to eight years. Service (system reboot) took about an hour. No charge. No issues in the two months since.""

""At times, the radio simply stopped working. I had to restart the car to make it work again. Also, pairing with my I phone only works intermittently. Ditto with Apple car play. On the bright side, Subaru has issued a recall on the radio, and I plan to have it replaced.""

"Lane steering. Indicates it doesnt work. I dont use feature."

"see last comment"

"door lock broken. had maintenance agreement or would have cost 800 to repair according to service dept"

""What I wrote to Subaru is over 3,000 characters so here's the very shortened version. Subaru had a DCM and also a battery lawsuit settled over two years ago for cars through 2020. My Forester is a 2021. I knew nothing about this. Over three months since this past December I had to get my car jump started eight times. I bought a new battery in December. The other one was 3 years and nine months old. The new battery lasted three months. I bought it at O'Reilly's based on Consumer Reports for highly rated batteries. I didn't trust Subaru batteries because my first one died after three months when I first bought the car. I found out about the DCM problem by googling but Subaru didn't believe me. My car was in the shop for a week. They said my VIN wasn't covered for the DCM problem. After diagnostic testing it turned out that the problem was the parasitic drain caused by the Data Communication Module trying to connect with the Starlink network when the car was shut off. Ultimately they covered replacing the computer but I'm sure this problem killed both batteries. They kept telling me I wasn't driving the car enough to keep the battery charged, or that at 55 degrees it was too cold in my apartment's parking garage. I think that they were still running out the defective batteries and DCMs from the prior lawsuit years and put them into my 2021 car when they built it. But they'd never admit that. I'd be happy to discuss this further with you if you want to call me: .""

"Windows would not close"

"Auto restart was failing at 45,000 miles. Gas station replaced the battery but installed wrong grade. 5,000 miles later had to replace it with dealer's battery."