2018 Subaru Impreza
This year drew an ordinary 149 complaints for a Subaru Impreza — the model's median is 75. What they were about is the unusual part: 12.1% of them mention issued, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 4 of the Subaru Impreza, which began in 2017 and ran to 2023. 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 | 149 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 75 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 28.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- issued — 12.1% of this year's complaints, against 3.2% across the other years of this generation (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: issued, august, recall issued, website.
- headlight — 6% of this year's complaints, against 1.6% across the other years of this generation (3.9×).
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
This recall 22V624000 was issued in August of 2022 and it is now September of 2023, over a year since it was recalled and Subaru still does not have a remedy according to NHTSA website and my local Subaru dealer. Does it really take more than 13 months to rede…
It has been over a year since the recall was issued for my vehicle. Subaru has yet to make the remedy available in my area. It’s been over a year now and Subaru dealerships near me say that they still have no idea of when the remedy will become available. I re…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 21V587000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V264000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 19V744000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 19V743000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 22V624000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Impreza 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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