Coscienzios

Model years to avoid

Subaru Crosstrek

What it says about you

Opinion

Small, capable, and bought by someone whose weekends have a plan. The roof rack has been used. That is what separates you from several other entries on this list.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

13 model years on record, 1,133 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (way), 2018 (called). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • doesn 2016, 2025 peak 16.3% of that year's complaints
  • across 2017, 2018 peak 8.2% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2026 0 recalls 8 complaints
  2. 2025 0 recalls 43 complaints
  3. 2024 2 recalls 109 complaints
  4. 2023 0 recalls 32 complaints
  5. 2022 0 recalls 29 complaints
  6. 2021 1 recall 112 complaints
  7. 2020 0 recalls 68 complaints
  8. 2019 way 283 complaints
  9. 2018 called 194 complaints
  10. 2017 1 recall 97 complaints
  11. 2016 1 recall 131 complaints
  12. 2013 1 recall 25 complaints
  13. 2012 0 recalls 2 complaints

What does a Subaru Crosstrek say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.