Subaru Forester

""The Apple carplay is very inconsistent and often stops in mid-use. Very disruptive when using a navigation app to have to remove the phone and get the map running on the phone instead of the car's screen. It would be better if it did not work at all instead of stopping during use, especially when navigating.""

"Apple car play cuts out while driving."

"Sometimes the carplay will disconnect from the phone"

""Only happened one time. When starting the car the display was blank. Restarting vehicle did not work. Drove home without display. After vehicle was off for 10 minutes and restarted, then everything was fine. Never happened again. Under warranty but nothing to show dealership to fix! Very strange one time problem. Could not adjust volume on sound system either while had this problem.""

""The infotainment system display screen has frozen 3 times now. I took it in to the Subaru dealer where I purchased it to have it checked out the first time it happened. They said that they "updated the software", but I suspect that they only reset the system. The two subsequent times that it froze, I was able to perform the reset myself.""

"Goes black"

"As stated before"

"Same problem as the radio. It would affect my phone if I was in the middle of a call."

""When playing Spotify or radio stations through my smartphone, which is linked through Bluetooth, the car's system constantly shuffles from phone to Sirius xm to radio and seems to lose signal frequently.""

"can't figure it out"

"The display was blanking out and would update everytime we turned on the car. We took it to the dealer and they replace the display screen, no charge."

""I prefer using google maps through Android Auto, but I rely on the speed limit display next to the vehicle speed display when traveling through small towns where the speed limits change often from town to town and there is much more of a chance of speed-traps. It's when this information stopped displaying that I realized that the built-in navigation system (gps) was not working properly. The nav map had stopped displaying the streets and labels and only showed a blank view of the state outline. It also told me that I was in a different city across the river in a different state. I'm in Portland, OR, and the nav system told me I was in Vancouver, WA (it's only a few miles to the north across a river). Turning it off and on didn't help, and resetting the infotainment system also did not help. I then reset the system to the factory defaults, and that also did not help. I then initiated a map update, which took a very long time to complete, even though I was in my driveway connected to my home wifi most of the time. The update was very slow and took more than a day to finally complete and for the map and location info to start displaying properly.""

"Navigation stops"

"While listening to a podcast the audio quit working. Switched to the fm radio, still no audio. Tried rebooting the radio, not successful. Dealer had to do an update."

"Sometimes the iphone would not pair. When using Apple Play it would sometimes not work."

"The radio freaks out. I cannot control volume or turn it off. Just have to wait until it stops or I can pull off the road and turn off the vehicle. Very loud. First time it happened it was very scary. It happened weekly for about a year. Hasnt been a problem for the last few months. No solution from Subaru. Would do it even if the radio was off."

""Everything looked good, but there was no sound from the speakers. When they fixed the problem they did something to the subwoofer which took a couple of months and 3 trips to the dealership to get fixed.""

"difficult to use for 80 year olds"

"Battery failure, Subaru replaced the battery at no cost to me."

""Automatic Cimate control system keeps resetting to lowest temperature, even post "repair".""

"Trunk doesnt always open and check engine light came on"

"Key has trouble getting removed from ignition at times"

""I needed 4 new tires two years after purchasing my car. Despite taking it to the dealership for all services I wasnt notified until they needed to be changed immediately. Subaru corporate covered the replacement tire cost, I paid for labor.""

"needed windshield replacement for what seems to be a minor chip in the windshield. Forester windshields seem to be a little too fragile."

""Brought my car into the dealer where I bought (& service) the car for the annual inspection June 2023, everything was fine except that ALL FOUR TIRES needed to be replaced! I had less than 30,000 miles. They said it happens. I've been driving 50 years, owned multiple cars, many tires and no tires that wore in 40K, esp. 4 tires with a new car. The mechanic said I should not be driving the car because the tires were so worn! ALL of my service had been done at this dealer. I live on a paved road, all town roads are paved, I drive on paved roads, no off-road, no mountains, no beaches, no rough terrain, no burning rubber. I have one speeding ticket from decades ago. I was perplexed and upset. I talked to the saleswoman who sold me the car. She was great & gave me the main Subaru number, as the dealer/management said they couldn't do anything. I left without an inspection sticker. I called the main Subaru number I'd been given. I had a few phone conversations with them over the course of a week or so. They arranged with the dealer to replace and install the tires up to $1,000. This covered everything. In between calls with Subaru, I also contacted Firestone, the tire manufacturer. They were horrible. They said they needed me to drive to the nearest Firestone place - over one hour away in another state so they could examine the tires. But, the dealer was saying I shouldn't even drive home! Firestone would not speak with the dealer. They said if I wasn't comfortable driving, then I should buy 4 new tires, have them put on, then drive the old tires down to NH and then they would decide whether they would do anything. In the past year I've spoken with a couple of Subaru's mechanics and they said that Subaru does not include alignments in their list of things to do for maintenance. They'd seen this happen before. I had all service done there and did everything they recommended (including all rotations), so I was quite upset to find all four tires were so worn. Other than this very annoying experience, I am happy with my Forester. I'm now scheduling alignments every June, just before yearly inspection.""

"The front windshield has had to be repaired twice for dings that we don't feel should have broken the glass sp completelt."

"Cracked windshield for no apparent cause. Hand gesture control to raise or lower the temperature inside is frequently triggered by sunlight flickering through trees, especially when the sun is low in the sky."

"Engine knocking, vehicle shaking, all dash lights blinking, cylinder missing. Out of commission for a week. Put it on trailer & hauled to dealer to check out. Service area found when they changed spark plugs they didnt screw one of the cylinders down which caused the whole thing. Admitted the problem, fixed with no charge and we drove it home the same day."

"The auto engine stop drains the battery. It must be turned off every time you start the car otherwise it drains the battery and has issues restarting while sitting on the roadway."

"Occasional but has not yet been diagnosed or serviced"

""Rotors had rusted and had degraded, tho I forget the exact word used to describe the degradation.""

"Rotors would pulse when stopping. service tech found Hard spots in both rotors. dealer replaced both rotors and brake pads to fix the problem."