38 problems related to power train have been reported for the 2017 Subaru Outback. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2017 Subaru Outback based on all problems reported for the 2017 Outback.
Since purchase on 2/19/17 from parker Subaru cda, complaint of shaking front end, wandering on highway and freeway from side to side in a dangerous manner, from complete loss of steering in snow, slush and gravel as of 2/28/17. I have been very specific about the incidence. Going in my driveway at least 8 inccidents; in snow or slush conditions, in depts on only a couple inches or less in the winter of 2017. In the summer of 2017 three incidents of complete failure was reported on grave road at speeds of 15-mph, I have had the very same complaint every visit: 2/28/17, 3/23/17, 4/6/17. 9/13/17, 10/22/17, 1/22/17- @ parker Subaru cda.
As exit my level garage the driveway is on at 9% down slope when I put my car in reverse and back up out of the garage and then place the car to drive to move back up the driveway to load my wife and grandchild the car slips backwards between one and 3 feet or three seconds of his full slippage. My granddaughter at two years of age does not know that the car will slip back without control. This is a safety concern and can cause critical harm to her and/or my wife. Other car manufactures cvt transmissions has almost zero slippage from reverse to drive. This characteristic on the 2017 Subaru Outback creates a very unsafe condition and if safety is your biggest concern I find this a big safety characteristic and if I knew this before I would not have leased this vehicle.
Mileage: 248. Car continue to move backward after shifting from reverse into drive. Shifting back to reverse and again to forward ( 3 times) did not help. It happened on a level parking lot (slow speed moving). After shifting automatic transmission from parking to reverse vehicle starts moving backward. After complete stop, shift lever was moved from reverse into drive. Car continue to drive backwards after applying gas pedal. Shift lever was moved back to reverse and again into drive. Car still was moving backwards. There was 2 more attempts to shift back into reverse and into drive. No help. Only 4-th attempt was successful and car starts moving forward. Only because driver was very careful and mowing at slow speed, collision with others cars on a parking lot was avoided. This is very dangerous, because you never know in what direction car will move after shifting from reverse into drive.