2007 Subaru Outback
This year drew 129 complaints against a median of 293 across the Subaru Outback's other years, 0.4× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 8 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the Subaru Outback, which began in 2005 and ran to 2009. 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 | 129 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 293 |
| Involving a crash | 9 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 20V003000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V002000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V297000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 16V738000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 14V311000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 15V323000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 13V110000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Outback 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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