16V292000
STEERING:COLUMN
The loss of steering ability would increase the risk of a crash.
2017 SUBARU OUTBACK
4 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation (1 open), 1,106 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2017 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 complaints1,106
Complaints citing a crash56
Complaints citing a fire5
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.
16V716000
AIR BAGS:KNEE BOLSTER
If the knee guard is not properly attached and the driver is not wearing a seatbelt, the knee guard may not be able to properly restrain the driver's lower body in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
16V576000
SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:DISC:CALIPER
If any of the front brake caliper, wheel hub or stabilizer clamp attaching bolts loosen or detach, the related components would also become loose and may detach possibly making the vehicle unstable and reducing the braking capability. These conditions would increase the risk of a crash.
What owners report most
- 381ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 205VISIBILITY/WIPER
- 177UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 45POWER TRAIN
- 43ENGINE
- 27VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 26VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD
- 24STRUCTURE:BODY
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2017 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.