Subaru Outback

"CarPlay does not work. You can only use your phone in the car for approximately three minutes and then the Subaru microphone drops - EVERYTIME. I would have never purchased this car if I know."

"The system will occasionally not pair with drivers phone no matter what we try. This prevents us from using Google maps which are FAR superior to Subarus built in mapping. The voice prompts are tinny and sound awful. Points of Interest are extremely limited to Subarus predetermined categories. The interface is also slow and tedious."

"Pairing is haphazard. Sometimes doesn't pair at all. Need to shut car off, restart. Sometimes pairing with WAZE drops in middle of a trip. Need to pull over, turn off engine, restart...and pray."

"CarPlay randomly stops pairing and then wont pair again until you turn off Bluetooth and WiFi and turn them back on. Very annoying, I wish it would just connect through the lightning cable as it did on previous models!"

"It started when Id had the car a week and intermittently occurs. Need to take the car into the dealer."

"The air conditioning controls are in the display screen. At start up, the screen almost always takes a fair bit of time to boot up causing frustration. Most importantly, the screen-based air conditioning controls create an inherent safety hazard forcing you to look away from the road to manipulate air conditioning / HVAC. This is further exacerbated in inclement weather (e.g., when wearing gloves) which is when you need to pay the most amount of attention to the road. I wish all manufacturers would stop using screen-based HVAC controls and provided a manual, tactile, no-look access to frequently used comfort, convenience, and safety features. Same thing applies to safety features. Prior outbacks had hard buttons to turn off safety features by clicking and holding. This is now down in the infotainment screen creating additional safety hazards."

"just stopped working - no touch inputs worked - frozen"

"When cold, display screen pauses for 20 or 30 seconds before responding."

"Sometimes when you press one of the "buttons" there is a significant delay in response. Sometimes up to 10 seconds for the input to be recognized. You end up pushing the "button" several times thinking that you may have not pressed it hard enough but then when it does respond it will respond to all of your inputs at once (ex. if you press the auto start/stop button and it doesn't respond, and then you wait and press it again and it doesn't respond, and then you wait and press it again, then when it finally responds it will turn the feature on and off several times in rapid succession."

"Upon starting car one morning, entire infotainment/Eyesight system wouldn't load -- equivalent to the blue screen of death. When we started driving, all safety feature -- lane departure, etc. -- were disabled and off as well. Turned car off and restarted after 10 minutes, and systems returned to normal. Has operated normally since. Fingers crossed."

"It intermittently does not pass through audio, i.e., no volume. Have not yet had time to discuss the issue with our dealer."

"The GPS system went down as we were driving through the middle of Nashville coming home from vacation."

"The phone is the big problem but the onscreen display is about 10 years behind status quo."

"Another Subaru fail. Just the clunkiest thing ever see prior comments. Hard to describe this fail but it takes repeated effort to get the phones paired correctly"

"Pairing constantly stops and the person on the call can no longer hear me."

"My wife's phone paired easily. My phone did not when we were both in the car. My phone paired successfully when she was not in the car."

"The phone pairing problem was the result of bugs in Apple CarPlay which were resolved by the dealer updating it."

"I have Sirius radio and it tends to change stations randomly."

"I only use my phone to search for directions someplace. The in car voice recognition system doesnt recognize anything that I ask for even when I ask specifically for a business name and a city and state."

"Voice commands stopped working with the navigation system"

"Subaru Starlink, their subscription service to remote start car didnt have the proper receiver in the brand new car. It took dealership 4 months to figure out why it wouldnt work."

"warning chime keeps going off intermittently and passenger unbuckled warning when no one is sitting in the seat, not even a dog. front eyesight system sometimes shows inoperable which is a problem with using high beams"

"Windshield is highly susceptible to cracks."