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Subaru Impreza · 2002

1 recall affects this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·11V464000·2011-09-06

    Subaru and Saab Recall Vehicles Due to Front Control Arm Corrosion

    Subaru is recalling certain Impreza, Forester, and Saab 9-2X vehicles because front lower control arms may break due to corrosion, increasing crash risk.

    Product
    SUBARU — SUBARU, SAAB FORESTER, IMPREZA, 9-2X
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide

NHTSA crash-test safety rating

Federal 5-Star Safety Rating from crash testing. This is a separate government program from the recall(s) above — a high star rating says nothing about whether a specific recall has been fixed, and a recall says nothing about crash-test performance.

Source: NHTSA New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), a federal crash-test program — not a recall record.

Wider context for this vehicle

Beyond the official recalls above. These are third-party figures derived from NHTSA complaint data — useful signal, but not part of our verified recall record.

Federal investigations

  • PE15012 Preliminary Evaluation · air bags:frontal

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2008 · powertrain 66 complaints, median 65,453 mi
  • 2013 · airbags 65 complaints, median 57,000 mi
  • 2019 · visibility 58 complaints, median 10,300 mi
  • 2020 · visibility 53 complaints, median 7,000 mi
  • 2014 · airbags 35 complaints, median 50,000 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,448 manufacturer service bulletins across 22 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2026: 4.8/5 · 1 complaints
  • 2025: 4.6/5 · 5 complaints
  • 2024: 4.0/5 · 31 complaints · most complained-of: visibility
  • 2023: 4.4/5 · 4 complaints
  • 2022: 4.3/5 · 12 complaints

This is ProblemsByVin’s own published heuristic (1 worst – 5 best), not an official rating and unrelated to our severity scale.

Data on this panel comes from ProblemsByVin, derived from US NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, and licensed CC BY 4.0. It is not published by a federal agency and is not part of our verified recall record.

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