Vehicle Shudder problems of the 2010 Subaru Outback

When braking to a sudden stop, the car shudders and stalls. It is similar to the feeling of braking without depressing the clutch in a manual car, however this vehicle has an automatic cvt transmission. This happened in an intersection, and there were cars behind me honking as I attempted to restart the vehicle. After some basic research, this seems to happen to many vehicles like this, that have the new cvt style transmission. Subaru did offer an extended warranty because of so many complaints, but this goes beyond that. A recall needs to be issued, it is a major safety issue.

When braking to a sudden stop, the car shudders and stalls similar to the feeling of stalling out in a car with a manual transmission. The local Subaru dealer/service diagnosed the problem as related to the cvt transmission and estimated $2000 to fix. After some research, there was an extended warranty issued for up to 100k or 10 years through July 30, 2018. However, the issue did not start until August of 2018 and my car was well over 100k at that time. There are serious safety concerns in having a car die repeatedly.

Car began to bog down and stall when breaking. Car will start to shake/shudder and then stall when stopping whether the engine is cold or hot. The car will stall like someone forgetting to push the clutch in on a manual car when stopping. This has happened numerous times and most times I am in heavy traffic. The car will stall and requires it to be shifted into park, the ignition turned off and then the car restarted before continuing on. I have began to keep a video log of all the times the vehicle will stall driving from my home to work and other trips. This is a serious issue that Subaru needs to address. It appears they were made aware of this issue in 2014 but did not do anything about it until 2017 and even then they are not doing a recall but a "extended coverage". They give absolutely no details as to why other than to say "for customer satisfaction and care". No admittance of any problems by Subaru. Dealers can't tell you why either and it's up to them to determine if it's related to the cvt or not.

Car shudders and sounds like engine will die when coming to complete stop. If this were a manual transmission, feels as if clutch should be pushed in. Problem occurs intermittently. Cold or hot engine. Problem became noticeable around 58,000-60,000 mile.

2010 Subaru Outback automatic,2. 5i, in first month of ownership noticed vehicle wanted to stall when I slowed down or stopped. Have had for 4 months vehicle is worse, rpm's drop to near zero, car will then idle fast to compensate. . . In the last month vehicle has a severe shudder, on top of the near stalling. . . Was told by dealer that Subaru has fixed problem on manuals but is still waiting for software for automatics to reflash computer. Car is very shaky after the near stalls upon acceleration. Car also accelerates when I have foot on brake and release to inch forward (waiting in traffic) as though it has a very fast idle. I was told by corporate headquarters today, that there is no problem with the automatics. . Just manuals???? my dealer disagrees and stated today that I am not the only person with this problem waiting for a solution.

I purchased a 2010 Subaru Outback 2. 5i with a 6 speed manual transmission on may 2010. What has been happening is upon fully depressing the clutch to either slow the car down and/or bring the car to a coast the engine rpms drops rather rapidly which on several occasions has resulted in the vehicle borderline stalling before the engine computer compensates by increasing the idle slightly while coasting or slowing down with the clutch depressed. This is far more prevalent when the a/c is running. Today (sun 7/25) I was approaching a right turn, the a/c was running. I started the process of slowing down the car by fully depressing the clutch and braking. When I started to turn the steering wheel to enter the turn I barely could do so. The reason for this is the engine this time stalled. Generally you can hear the engine shudder before a stall, in this case it did not. It almost resulted in the vehicle hitting a pole with my two young children inside. The car restarted right away and I was able to resume normal operations. During the course of this same day on at least two more occasion I fully depressed the clutch to either slow the car or coast and the car shudder indicating a potential stall but the car compensated. This issue needs to be addressed ASAP because it will result in a serious accident. Thank you.