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2014 Subaru Forester electrical system problems

42 complaints about electrical system have been filed for the 2014 Subaru Forester, which is 7% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
42 7% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
61,000 miles 33 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
4 and 1
Injuries and deaths
1 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When electrical system problems show up

Electrical system complaints by mileage, 2014 Subaru Forester Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 61,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 10 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 1 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 7 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 3 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 4 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 4 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 61,000 miles
Based on 33 complaints that include mileage. 42% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles10
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles1
60k to 80k miles7
80k to 100k miles3
100k to 120k miles4
120k to 140k miles4
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 33 electrical system complaints that report mileage, the median is about 61,000 miles, and 42% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 4 crashes, 1 fire, 1 injury.

What owners wrote

On Friday, 12-3-21 I was in an accident in my local Costco parking lot while backing out of my spot. While backing out of the spot slowly with the wheel turned, my 2014 Subaru Forester had a sudden and extreme acceleration in reverse doing a reverse u-turn into a parked car causing considerable damage to the rear end of both cars. I am certain that I did not to press the gas pedal as this is a busy parking lot and I always back out very slowly just covering the brake.

December 2021 CrashInjury

This problem has been getting progressively worst. The car has been having troubles turning over on cold starts, and has experienced a loss of propulsion and stall going up hill including a loss of brakes since I bought it a year ago. On 9/6/2014 the car was started and was idling high (approximately 4000RPM), check engine light was on, speed control light was on, incline alert light on, sport mode light was on and check emissions system light was on.

Reported at 6,800 miles, September 2014

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