16V292000
STEERING:COLUMN
The loss of steering ability would increase the risk of a crash.
2016 SUBARU OUTBACK
4 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 771 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2016 SUBARU OUTBACK carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations11 open
Owner complaints771
Complaints citing a crash38
Complaints citing a fire6
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 4 of 4
19V910000
AIR BAGS: AIR BAG/RESTRAINT CONTROL MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating passenger frontal air bag deployment, the air bag may not deploy properly, increasing the risk of injury.
15V794000
POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:DIFFERENTIAL UNIT
If the drive shaft detaches from the rear differential, it may strike the fuel tank and result in a fuel leak, increasing the risk of a fire.
15V502000
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
If the transmission oil leaks onto the exhaust pipe, there is a possible risk of fire.
What owners report most
- 302ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 124UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 83VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 53ENGINE
- 42POWER TRAIN
- 24STEERING
- 19STRUCTURE:BODY
- 19VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2016 SUBARU OUTBACKs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.