2005 Subaru Baja
This year drew 37 complaints, which is too few to read anything into. A share of a small number moves too much: one owner writing about the same fault twice would swing it further than a real pattern does. So nothing is claimed about this year either way. The 11 recalls below are on file regardless, and are not affected by how many people filed complaints.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 37 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 24 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 11 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 20V002000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V003000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V016000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V014000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V026000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V359000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V358000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 11. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Baja 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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