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Subaru Outback · 2019

3 recalls affect this vehicle. Sorted by severity, then date.

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  • Severity pendingNHTSA·21V587000·2021-07-29

    Subaru and Toyota Recall Vehicles for Fuel Pump Failure Risk

    Subaru is recalling certain 2018-2020 models and Toyota 86 vehicles because a fuel pump may fail, causing engine stall and increasing crash risk.

    Product
    SUBARU — SUBARU, TOYOTA OUTBACK, WRX, FORESTER, LEGACY
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide
  • Severity pendingNHTSA·19V493000·2019-06-26

    Subaru Recalls 2019 Legacy and Outback for Body Strength Defect

    Subaru is recalling 2019 Legacy and Outback vehicles because improperly applied spot welds may reduce body strength, increasing injury risk in a crash.

    Product
    SUBARU — SUBARU OUTBACK, LEGACY
    Category
    Vehicle
    Distribution
    Distributed nationwide
  • Severity pendingNHTSA·20V218000·2020-04-16

    Subaru Recalls 2019 Models for Fuel Pump Failure Risk

    Subaru is recalling 2019 Impreza, Outback, Legacy, and Ascent vehicles because the low pressure fuel pump may fail, causing the engine to stall.

    Product
    SUBARU — SUBARU IMPREZA, LEGACY, ASCENT, OUTBACK
    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.

Complaint clusters with no matching recall

  • 2017 · electrical 381 complaints, median 32,000 mi
    Includes 1 alleging a fire. Unverified owner allegations from complaint filings — not confirmed by any agency.
  • 2019 · electrical 359 complaints, median 13,563 mi
  • 2020 · visibility 354 complaints, median 7,216 mi
  • 2019 · visibility 347 complaints, median 12,000 mi
  • 2016 · electrical 294 complaints, median 43,000 mi

Technical service bulletins

1,455 manufacturer service bulletins across 22 model years. A TSB is repair guidance to dealers, not a safety recall.

Third-party reliability score

  • 2026: 4.4/5 · 12 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2025: 4.0/5 · 76 complaints · most complained-of: electrical
  • 2024: 4.7/5 · 2 complaints
  • 2023: 3.7/5 · 89 complaints · most complained-of: visibility
  • 2022: 3.1/5 · 462 complaints · most complained-of: visibility

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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