Owner reports filed with NHTSA about this vehicle, newest first and reproduced as filed. They are unverified accounts: one proves nothing, and a pattern across many is the thing worth reading. Back to the full 2002 record →
VEHICLE HESITATES WHEN ACCELERATED THEN STARTS WITH A SURGE. ROUGH ENGINE PERFORMANCE. NO ACCIDENT YET BUT COULD BE ANY DAY. HAVE INFORMED THE MANUFACTURED OF PROBLEM. THEY HAVE NO FIX TOO DATE ABUT ARE WORKING ON IT. MANY OWNERS HAVE REPORTED SIMILAR PROBLEMS.*AK
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO PARK VEHICLE, SLOWED DOWN TO APPROX 5 MPH WITH FOOT ON BRAKE, ENGINE RACED AND CAR SURGED AHEAD SUDDENLY, HITTING PARKED TRUCK WITH TAILGATE LOWERED, CAUSING CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE.*AK
WHILE DRIVING 65 MPH TREAD ON RIGHT FRONT TIRE SEPARATED, ORIGINAL MANUFACTURED EQUIPMENT ON A 2002, SUBARU, LEGACY, TIRE SIZE P225560R16, AND 1,200 MILEAGE. *AK *YD
WHILE IDLING IN PARK VEHICLE JUMPED INTO DRIVE, RESULTING IN A COLLISION. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK
NHTSA publishes every complaint as the owner wrote it and investigates only a fraction. Spelling, capitalisation and judgement are the filer’s own. What carries weight is repetition: the same component failing the same way across many filings, and whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
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