1995 Subaru Legacy problems
Owners have filed 230 complaints with NHTSA about the 1995 Subaru Legacy. Air bags is the most reported problem area, at 22% of complaints. After that come brakes (15%) and electrical system (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 230 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 22% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 39 and 7
- Injuries and deaths
- 34 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 164,000 miles 29 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 0 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 2 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 0 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 0 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 2 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 4 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 6 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 5 |
| 200k+ miles | 4 |
What the data shows
Among the 29 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 164,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 39 complaints mention a crash; 7 complaints mention a fire; 34 injuries reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 90% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1995 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 34 model years of the Subaru Legacy with enough data (127 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Consumer's vehicle was involved in a rear end collision. As a result, driver's side seat back collapsed, injuring the driver. Also, when the seat collapsed it injured the rear passenger's legs.
My vehicle, a 1995 subaru legacy l station wagon, had stalled at a red light. Shortly after the light turned green, I was rear-ended by another vehicle. I was in the driver's seat of my vehicle. Upon impact, the driver's seat "collapsed" to a fully-reclined position. I suffered muscle and ligament strain in my neck and back, and my daughter (who was seated behind me) sustained a large bruise on her right thigh as a result of being struck by my seat when it collapsed.
Vehicle driven by wife bumped slightly into rear of vehicle driven by husband, air bag deployed on driver and passenger sides prematurely, windshield broke.
We had a slow oil leak and our catalytic converter started going bad at the same time. The oil leaked down the exhaust to the catalytic converter which was over heating and caused a flash fire burning up my entire car. Thankfully no one was hurt.
10/162017 - I was walking down the street to meet my wife for dinner after parking my car. As I watched her pull into the parking lot in front of me in the legacy I saw the windshield get blown out by the passenger airbag being deployed. She was stopped waiting for traffic on a city street to clear to pull in and was not moving very fast at all, approx 5 MPH. Luckily no one was in the passenger seat and my wife sustained minor injuries from flying glass.