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3 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.
Subaru is recalling certain 2020-2021 Outback and Legacy vehicles for a transmission control unit programming error that may cause the drive chain to slip, resulting in loss of drive power and increased crash risk.
Subaru is recalling certain 2020-2022 Outback and Legacy vehicles because an Occupant Detection System capacitor may crack and short circuit, preventing front passenger airbag deployment.
Subaru is recalling 2021-2023 Crosstrek, Forester, Legacy, and Outback vehicles. A weld defect in the inhibitor switch allows water to enter and cause the switch to fail, disabling reverse lights and camera display, increasing crash risk.
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.
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.
1,447 manufacturer service bulletins across 21 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.
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.