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2018 Subaru Outback brakes problems

18 complaints about brakes have been filed for the 2018 Subaru Outback, which is 2% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
18 2% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
7 and 0
Injuries and deaths
3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 7 crashes, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

I went to to stop at a traffic light and my brakes failed. I swerved to miss the car directly in front of me. I hit 5 other cars and the car flipped. The fire department had to cut us out of the car.this was a busy street.

Reported at 30,000 miles, January 2019 CrashInjury

Tl* the contact owns a 2018 subaru outback. Each time the brake pedal was depressed, the vehicle accelerated without warning. The contact had to apply excessive force to the brake pedal to slow down the vehicle. The failure recurred three times. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for diagnostic testing. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 4,400.

Reported at 4,400 miles, December 2018

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