Federal complaint record · Subaru Forester · model year 2023
2023 Subaru Forester
Owners submitted 71 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 19th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2021 to 2025 compact suv cohort. The largest reported component group is driver assistance. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.
What the numbers tell you
Understanding the 2023 Subaru Forester complaints
Which systems appear most often?
The largest component group is driver assistance: 22 entries, or 21.0% of classified component entries. Next is other: 19 entries, or 18.1% of classified component entries. A complaint can name several components, so these percentages describe the entries in the file, not the percentage of vehicles affected. Only the leading component groups are displayed.
At what mileage were problems reported?
Only 8 complaints have usable mileage. That is below the 20-report threshold, so no median is published. Missing mileage does not mean a problem occurred at zero miles.
Use these patterns to prepare questions about a particular vehicle's service history. Complaint reports describe submitted experiences; they do not establish the cause, repair cost, or condition of every 2023 Subaru Forester. Read the symptom groups below alongside the source documents and a VIN-specific recall check.
Driver assistance · 21.0% of classified component entries
Where this record concentrates
From the record · recurring narrative clusters
Reported problems with the 2023 Subaru Forester
7 of the 71 2023 Subaru Forester complaint incidents were assigned to the brake performance group.
9.9% of this model year's complaint incidents matched this group first in the keyword screen. This is a text classification, not a confirmed diagnosis.
5 2023 Subaru Forester complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 7.0% of the 71 incidents on file.
5 2023 Subaru Forester complaint incidents were assigned to this group: 7.0% of the 71 incidents on file.
Each complaint is assigned to the first matching keyword group, even if it mentions several symptoms. Only the leading published groups are shown. Unmatched reports and other groups remain in the total, so these percentages need not add to 100%. A keyword match can miss context; it is not an owner quotation or proof of a defect.
Sources and further research
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This page summarizes owner-submitted NHTSA complaints through 2026-07-19. Complaint patterns do not establish a defect in every vehicle. The complaint counts here are not recall counts, and this page does not determine whether a particular vehicle has an open recall. Check a VIN for open recalls at NHTSA and read how MotorCensus processes the complaint data.
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