2024 Subaru Ascent
This year drew an ordinary 48 complaints for a Subaru Ascent — the model's median is 55. What they were about is the unusual part: 52.1% of them mention side mirror, against 0% across the model's other years.
Generation 1 of the Subaru Ascent, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 48 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 55 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 21.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- side mirror — 52.1% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (260.4×).
- vibrates — 22.9% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: vibrates, mirror vibrates, issue since, driver-side.
- glass — 18.8% of this year's complaints, against 7.3% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: glass, lot, mirror glass, significantly.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
The driver side mirror vibrates, causing the reflection in the driver-side mirror to become distorted and impeding the driver’s ability to observe traffic. My understanding is that there is no remedy. The vehicle has done this since taking delivery in April 20…
When driving the side mirror on the driver’s side vibrates so much that it impairs the drivers ability to see anything in it. I have had the mirror replaced once and the replacement does the same thing. I was told by the dealership that it is a known issue wit…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 26V436000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Ascent was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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