general problems of the 2010 Subaru Forester

The 2010 Subaru Forester when the Subaru was in reverse while being parked it accelerated (lunged) forward at a high speed and I did not put the gear shift in forward! the 2010 Subaru Forester crashed into the back of a neighbor's Honda. My personal safety was put at risk due to without me doing so, the Subaru accelerated forward causing damage to both the Subaru and my neighbor's Honda. Had this happened if someone was walking by and there was not a car to block the Subaru, they would have likely been killed. Once the Subaru stopped, the gear shift was in park and I did not move it there. Then it was very challenging to put the gear shift in reverse to back the Subaru off the Honda. There are online ai generated reports of this happening to Subaru Foresters. The Subaru is now at a body shop for inspection. There were no warning lamps, messages or other symptoms of the problem prior to the failure.

In brief: I purchased a used 2010 Subaru Forester in Nov. 2022. Because the vehicle gave me many problems, I decided to purchase another vehicle. In June 2025 I went to fred beans in mechanicsburg, PA. They ran a car fax on my 2010 Subaru & found, among other things, the odometer of my 2010 Subaru had potentially been rolled back (mileage going from approx. 171,000 to 91,000) prior to my purchase. I filed a report July 03, 2025 with the psp in carlisle, trooper stevens, badge 12980, case pa25-813961. I am filing this complaint with NHTSA as part of the initial report. Please refer to the psp case pa25-813961 for more details & information regarding the ongoing investigation (which includes NJ). The exact date of the rollback/tampering is unknown to me. Documented titles or certificate of ownership previously issued kaitlyn michele/gail k arnholdt dnd group sales (NJ) harrisburg auction (?) alpine auto sales.

The Subaru bracket for the sun visor and the rod on the sun visor itself are made very poorly and will break very often, I had to replace my driver side once a year because I went to use it when the sun was glaring in my face on the highway and it just fell off onto my hands and other time in my face. This event of having something unexpected distract my focus and trigger a startled response while driving at a time the requires focus, attention, and awareness is altered in a way my and other lives are serioulsy at risk. Ii have almost been I near serious accidents each time this happens; I have gotten really lucky and that's only because im always on guard bc of my anxiety, cant say anyone else would be as lucky as me. The issue is the brace uses cheap plastic and also instead of making the piece that is known to break thicker they made it as thin as possible to save money most likely. The bracket should be completely metal in my professional option considering how much force the sun visor rod that plugged into it requires. No ones life should be a risk like this, nor should any customer have to pay $100 for a new retail cost of one that is unjust for a company to make a customer pay for a defective flawed part of there vehicle that should have been recalled long ago and never was. The first one was replaced under warranty when the Subaru dealer I went to was part of Nissan, then I bought one from the new store a year later, and then from the rafferty store, and again this week from the new concordville part store. (I dont have my invoice from the current part I just ordered) there is more then one day of incident, one in 2017, one in 2018, 2019, 2020, and again this year 12/10/2021. Cant find other invoiced. The date of incident for the previous would be same day or next day for invoice dates for new visor. . Read more...

My car isn't even fully paid off and out of no where the transmission went! I bought a Subaru because they're supposed to be the most reliable but now I have a car with less than 100,000 miles on it that doesn't even move. Not only is the transmission broke. But a gear is missing.

I just want to know if anything needs to be taken care of on my Subaru??? turning has been hard and I don't know if it's a recall or not. I just had all my struts replace, and I heard that suspension was recalled????.

Trying to park the car in driveway reversing noticed sudden acceleration,immediately triedto break and park couldnot stop the car. It stopped after hitting the garagewall. Big damage to garage wall . Impact shattered the the back window damaged the exhaust and dent the rear driver side ,bumper and side light. Prior to this incident two instances noted some unexpected acceleration. Didnt think much about it. Looking back some issue may be there.

Glass from sunroof separated, flew off and smashed into pieces on a clear, sunny 50 degree day. It was on a small route in the country and there was no wind. I was going 40-45 mph. I had not opened the window of sunroof in 5 years I owned it as I have had skin cancers. This was a big safety issue. Fortunately there were no cars behind me or we could have had a pile up with serious injuries and deaths. I will attach a pdf file with my notes to date. I believe webasto should replace this at no charge as it was clearly put in after market and was not installed safely.

Transmission shift cable is failing due to rust making the transmission almost impossible to shift - soon to brake - dealership could not estimate how long it had before it brakes - not sure what would happen if it broke - still driving - getting quotes to fix - dealership said $480 plus tax.

The heat shields on my 2010 Subaru Forester have had to be clamped twice due to the heat shields becoming loose from the exhaust system. This could be a fire danger if a heat shield cake loose and ruptured the gas tank. This appears to be a design issue.

As I was driving, the driver's sun visor dropped into my forehead creating a shocking reaction. I attempted to place it back up, but it kept falling down. I then left it in a down position that you would place it if sun was in your eyes. I went over to the local dealer and they said it has been happening to quite a few of the Forester cars. I asked if it was a recall and he said he checked and it wasn't. Because the car was over 3 years old, it was out of warrantee and it would be a charge of around $125. 00 or so to be repaired. I explained that the car has not been abused and if I probably had not used the visor more than a dozen times. He indicated maybe the original dealer would honor fixing it because of such low mileage. I did go back to the original dealer and unfortunately they would not honor it and would be happy to repair it for around the same price. He also told me to buy velcro and it should hold it up. I invested in many strengths of velcro to find out that it would not adhere to the ceiling material of the car and repeatedly flops down in the same fashion as it did initially. My complaint is that this should be a recall as clearly it is a safety issue. I cannot drive the car safely in a down position as it interferes with visability. I am so disappointed with Subaru's reaction to my problem. Thank you for your help.