2025 Subaru Crosstrek
This year drew an ordinary 43 complaints for a Subaru Crosstrek — the model's median is 97. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.6% of them mention way, against 6.1% across the model's other years.
Generation 3 of the Subaru Crosstrek, which began in 2024. 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 | 43 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 97 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 29 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- way — 18.6% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the model's other years (3×).
- doesn — 16.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.9% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: doesn, works, wrong.
- correct — 7% of this year's complaints, against 1% across the model's other years (6.8×).
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
Right blind spot detection does not work 96% of the time. Almost caused two collisions. Dealership said it either works or it doesn't, no in between. Since it works 4% of the time, they are not going to replace it or figure out what is wrong.
Lane-keep assist function has stopped working correctly. Warning light on dashboard. On a 3 lane freeway, on left side of vehicle the car drifts over the dividing line into traffic before there is a nudge. On right side car goes way over the line and doesn't n…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Crosstrek 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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