Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2016 Subaru Outback

Two problems related to car accelerates on its own have been reported for the 2016 Subaru Outback. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2016 Subaru Outback based on all problems reported for the 2016 Outback.

1 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 01/07/2021

Upon slowing down & pulling into a parking space, to park my car in front of a business, my vehicle spontaneously accelerated forward, up over the sidewalk. The vehicle accelerated a 2nd time as I tried to stop the vehicle with the brakes. The vehicle did not stop until it impacted the wall of the building.

2 Car Accelerates On Its Own problem

Failure Date: 12/30/2017

Sudden acceleration: this serious unsafe condition relates to my 2016 Outback limited 2. 5l purchased on 2/29/2016 in tampa florida. The exact same unsafe condition has happened twice; first in October 2016 at approximately 8800 miles, and second in December 2017 at approximately 24,000 miles. Description of incident: while slowly pulling into a parking space and gently applying the brake, the car's engine rpm accelerated and I had to break hard in order to stop the car. I moved the transmission to park, but the engine continued at high rpm so I moved the transmission to reverse, then to neutral, then I turned off the car off since the engine was still at a high rpm. A notice appeared in my odometer area to put the car in park, which I did. I then restarted it and everything was back to normal again. Note: I did not simultaneously push the break and the accelerator together which could possibly cause this situation. I am fortunate nothing was in front of me either time. I hope no one has been injured, but it is likely property damage has resulted. Please determine the cause and correct this potentially deadly situation. I am taking my car for a 24,000 mile service on 1/3/2017 and will document this with the dealer (mastro Subaru) at that time. I suspect this is a computer glitch, and a potentially dangerous one at that. I also suspect other car manufacturers can have this same issue if these computers and programming all come from the same third party.


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