Federal complaint record · Subaru Forester · model year 2017

2017 Subaru Forester

Owners submitted 580 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 64th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2015 to 2019 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is airbags. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Airbags · 25% · group n = 194Visibility · 14% · group n = 115Electrical · 13% · group n = 105Other · 12% · group n = 96Engine · 6% · group n = 47
580
Complaint records on file
30,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 321 complaints reported mileage
25%
Of classified component reports name airbags · group n = 194
64th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 40 model years

Airbags · 2 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

All failure files
Component group 01 · Airbags25%

Airbags reports

Subaru Forester · model year 2017

Reports in this group194
Share of classified reports25%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2016
0.2complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
405 matched incidents
This car
2017
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
580 matched incidents
2018
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
489 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
Airbag concerns · 124 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 1 of 32017 Subaru Forester
Electrical faults · 61 reports

Reports describe electrical faults or battery drain

Cluster 2 of 32017 Subaru Forester
Stalling or shutdown · 38 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32017 Subaru Forester

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

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