2019 Subaru Forester Unknown Or Other Problems
- 36
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.
Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.
Among these 36 stored complaint records:
- 1 indicate a crash
- 0 indicate injury
- 1 indicate fire
What owners report
- windshield cracked · 9 records
- rear gate · 7 records
- passenger side · 6 records
- crack windshield · 4 records
- hatch open · 4 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 1–30k mi | 33 |
| 30–60k mi | 1 |
Complaint records
Owner-submitted complaint content, presented as stored.
Unknown Or Other · Visibility/Wiper
Bought a brand new 2019 forester in sept 2019. Its windshield cracked twice from a minor rock impact during highway driving at about 65 mph. In my previous 25 year of owning and driving other cars i have never had a windshield crack and having windshield crack twice in such short period (5 months of ownership) cannot be a coincidence, there has to be a flaw with subaru's windshield design or quality. Judging from…
ODI 11308235
Body · Electrical System · Unknown Or Other
The vehicle was stationary. I pressed the power rear gate open button on the driver side dash, but the rear gate didn't open, and the car just beeped three times. The beeps would happen every time i tried to press the gate button on the car or on the faub. I opened the access panel and manually opened the door, extending the door to full height. When i pressed the buttons on the car, the power gate would go down but…
ODI 11308060
Unknown Or Other
As i was driving in the right hand lane on the florida turnpike at 75 mph, my driver side rear door window spontaneously shattered. The entire window disintegrated with most of the glass flying into the car. Temperature was only about 75 degrees. Nothing impacted the window - it just exploded.
ODI 11296917
Unknown Or Other
I parked my 2019 subaru touring trim car in my cousin's driveway on friday, nov 29, 2019. There was no damage to the windshield. I visited with him over lunch. I came back out to the car at about 3:00pm and on sitting in my driver's seat and looking out i immediately noticed a large crack in the windshield, starting from the glass edge under the trim, going up about 7 inches and then turning and going over about 7…
ODI 11287056
Electrical System · Unknown Or Other
There are actually three issues with the vehicle. The biggest issue, and potentially the most dangerous, is the vehicle randomly shutting itself off - not stalling. The problem occurs most often while stopped at lights, but has occurred in other situations as well. All functions in the vehicle stop, a loud, continuous beep begins and the dash indicates an 'eye site' error. Apparently, when the eye site feature has…
ODI 11270984
Unknown Or Other
Rear hatch will not open using remote or button on dashboard or button on door. This happened when i was parked at grocery store. Tried again at home and still not working.
ODI 11270510
Unknown Or Other
My windshield randomly cracked. One morning i woke up and went out to my car and it had a large crack after being parked outside of my apartment all night.
ODI 11297181
Body · Electrical System · Hatchback/Liftgate · Unknown Or Other
Rear hatch will not open. This issue has been random and periodic since we took delivery from dealer at end of may, 2019. Today after shopping i tried to place items in the hatch. It would not open. I tried the inside button and the handle on the hatch, neither worked. I loaded the items in the back seat, started the car then started to back out of the space. As vehicle traveled in reverse there was a noise like a…
ODI 11258213
Unknown Or Other
Owned this car for 3 months and 4x the rear gate does not open using the appropriate button on the dashboard. Requires use of key fob rear gate open/close button or flattening back seat to drag groceries out side door. Happens in park when trying to unload items from rear.
ODI 11257838
Unknown Or Other
I have owned the car for 6 months and the car only has 3500 miles. I have had the windshield repaired twice in the past month due to chips. The glass seems very weak and cracks with the slightest impact. I've never experienced this with any other cars. It usually takes a big rock to crack it.
ODI 11255386
Unknown Or Other
Moon roof will randomly fail to close when pressing the "close" button. Need to turn the ignition off and then re-start the vehicle again before the button/moon roof will operate again. It already happened three times since septemeber 7, 2019.
ODI 11270724
Unknown Or Other
While driving to work on september 3, 2019, i heard a noise and saw that a crack appeared to the left of the passenger side of the window. It was approximately 4 inches straight across. I called my insurance agency to report it. It took a week for the windshield to come in. During that week the crack spread to the center of the car. The windshield company fixed it and 2 weeks to the day, my husband and i were…
ODI 11271295
Unknown Or Other
One day i wake up to drive my car to work to find a small crack in my windshield with no single reason for this to happen
ODI 11271426
Unknown Or Other
As i was driving in the right hand lane on the interstate, my back side door window spontaneously shattered. I had been driving for one hour, temperature was around 80 degrees.
ODI 11246331
Unknown Or Other
I was backing out of parking space, approximately 5 mph. Rear view mirror fell off windshield. Windshield at place of mirror attachment had broken so a large chunk of the windshield was still attached to the mirror. Was not a full thickness break but created a divot in the windshield approximately 2 inches in diameter. There was no previous damage to this area of windshield. Car had been in no accidents. There was a…
ODI 11246134
Unknown Or Other
Key cannot be removed from ignition switch even if vehicle is in park. Occurs on a regular basis now. There is a subaru tsb for this (16-112-18r).
ODI 11251911
Unknown Or Other
Windshield of car cracked without any contact. There was a loud cracking noise and a large crack appeared which kept getting longer as i drove. The car was on the highway when this happened on a sunny normal chicago summer day, about 80 degrees f.
ODI 11242666
Unknown Or Other
My complaint may not be valid but i though it appropriate since many others are having windshield problems with their 2018/19 subaru foresters. I had a small rock bounce of the windshield while driving at 35mph on aug 1,2019 and now the shield is spider webbed with two long cracks and two smaller cracks. From my readings online, it appears that people with these models are having to replace their windshields at…
ODI 11241332
Air Bags · Engine · Unknown Or Other
In an accident involving front end to other car rear end on an interstate highway, the airbag system didn't deploy. The engine then caught fire in the right front of the engine. The entire car burned. Fortunately no injury to driver or passenger.
Crash reported · Fire reported
ODI 11240861
Unknown Or Other
Bottom passenger side windshield cracked across glass. Grew fast and still growing across to drivers side. Did not see anything hit it. Was driving and just heard pop of glass and crack. No star just crack from corner under wiper.
ODI 11231770
Unknown Or Other
#1 ) while applying the brake at low speed the cvt transmission causes the vehicle to jump forward countering my braking control. #2) while driving the visuals and driver assist alerts distract the drivers visual attention away from the road
ODI 11246477
Unknown Or Other
Crack occurred on passenger side windshield with in overnight. I haven't heard any rock hitting sound.
ODI 11231634
Unknown Or Other
I was driving on the highway nowhere near another car, when my windshield spontaneously cracked. It's a horizontal crack across almost half of my windshield on the passenger side, about 19 inches long and 14 inches from the bottom. I was out in the open, no trees, no overpass, no other cars nearby.
ODI 11218154
Unknown Or Other
Windshield cracked very easily with small road debris making contact while driving on the highway. The eyesight collision avoidance occasionally does not function due to the crack in the windshield.
ODI 11271296
Unknown Or Other
Windshield is weak and cracks very easily. Have had it replaced and five days later it needs replacing again due to crack. Both times from a small rock hitting the windshield on the highway.
ODI 11196895