1997 Subaru Svx

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Air Bags › Frontal2
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Air Bags › FrontalCrash
Filed Nov 16, 2000PA

WHEN VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN A CRASH AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY PROPERLY. BOTH FRONTAL AIR BAGS DRIBBLED OUT ABOUT 5 SECONDS AFTER IMPACT. VEHICLE WAS BEING REPAIRED. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

Air Bags › Frontal1 injured
Filed Mar 13, 1998UT

ENTERING HIGHWAY WHEN AIR BAGS DEPLOYED. PASSENGER SIDE BAG BROKE WINDSHIELD AND REARVIEW MIRROR. A TRANSPORT RESTRAINING HOOK ATTACHED TO A CROSSMEMBER APPARENTLY HIT THE DRIVEWAY RAMP IS BEING BLAMED FOR THE DEPLOYMENT.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1992
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1997 — this page2000Routine
19963000Routine
199520000Routine
199428000Routine
19934000Routine
1992231010Above average
19903000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.