Federal complaint record · Subaru Forester · model year 2014

2014 Subaru Forester

Owners submitted 403 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 49th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2012 to 2016 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is suspension. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Suspension · 17% · group n = 95Engine · 13% · group n = 72Airbags · 12% · group n = 68Other · 9% · group n = 50Electrical · 7% · group n = 42
403
Complaint records on file
53,500
Median mileage at the reported problem · 298 complaints reported mileage
17%
Of classified component reports name suspension · group n = 95
49th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Suspension · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Suspension17%

Suspension reports

Subaru Forester · model year 2014

Reports in this group95
Share of classified reports17%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2013
0.1complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
77 matched incidents
This car
2014
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
403 matched incidents
2015
0.3complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
613 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 61 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32014 Subaru Forester
Airbag concerns · 42 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32014 Subaru Forester
Stalling or shutdown · 29 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32014 Subaru Forester

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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