Subaru Forester Seats Problems
- 133
- Owner complaint records in our dataset
- 14
- Years with records
- 1999–2019
- Stored years
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 133 stored complaint records:
- 1 indicate a crash
- 2 indicate injury
- 3 indicate fire
Complaints by year
What appears in the records
- side seat · 40 records
- left side · 38 records
- passenger seat · 35 records
- front left · 22 records
- front passenger · 19 records
- passenger airbag · 19 records
Mileage in stored records
| Band | Records |
|---|---|
| 60–100k mi | 46 |
| 30–60k mi | 32 |
| 1–30k mi | 25 |
| 100–150k mi | 12 |
| 150–400k mi | 1 |
Complaint evidence
Latest stored owner-submitted records. Open a year for the full list.
Seats
Weld broke on power seat; left side. Audible pop was heard when in motion, after having backed out of parking space and driving forward to exit parking lot.
ODI 11309634
Air Bags · Occupant Classification · Seats
The passenger side seat registers that no one is sitting in the seat and it disables the airbag system. Someone can be sitting in the seat buckled up and then it will randomly pop-up with a warning message that there is an airbag issue and that no one is sitting in the seat.
ODI 11300528
Seats
Driver seat front right side collapsed. It's completely unsupported. Welds appear to be broken. Huge safety issue. I first noticed it a couple of weeks ago when i sat on it and it leaned to the right.
ODI 11299627
Air Bags · Seats
Nhtsa recall 19v-701 (subaru recall wum-98) includes only foresters with seat heaters manufactured from 1/20/15 - 8/1/17. My forester was manufactured on 6/6/18 and is not currently included. Page 3 of product campaign bulletin wum-98r revised 11/20/19 (copy attached) states if the date code on the front passenger seat cushion wiring harness is 18074 (74th day of 2018) or before and the supplier code is 6578, "the…
ODI 11292320
Seats
Front passenger seat shakes on uneven surfaces, whereby appearing unstable and inappropriately secured to foundation of vehicle.
ODI 11289223
Air Bags · Seats
Passenger occupancy sensor faulty. With an adult passenger present in the seat, the passenger airbag system will frequently turn off while the vehicle is in motion. This can sometimes be resolved by pulling over and restarting the vehicle. Restarting the vehicle does nor reliably resolve the error.
ODI 11258844
Air Bags · Seats
Passenger airbag warning light comes on/ goes off intermittently. The light warns us that the airbag is off despite having a passenger in the seat. I have seen online that many people are having this problem so i wanted to log our issue with nhtsa as well. The vehicle has never deployed it airbags nor been in a front end collision.
ODI 11256607
Air Bags · Seats
While operating my subaru forester an icon appeared on the dash indicating there was an issue with the airbags, at the same time the warning light indicating that the passenger airbag was off even though my wife was seated in the passenger seat. I contacted the dealership and had the car examined and was told that the passenger occupancy sensor was failing and needed to be replaced. The vehicle is less than 3 years…
ODI 11256883