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What 70 owners told NHTSA about the 2023 Subaru Forester Wilderness

These are the actual owner complaints behind this car’s reliability verdict, filed with the federal government, unedited. They’re unverified reports, not confirmed defects: read them as leads for your pre-purchase inspection, not a diagnosis.

All (70)Crash / fire / injury (11)Driver assistance (12)Visibility & wipers (12)Electrical system (7)Airbags (6)Engine (5)Lane Departure (5)Speed control (5)Lights (4)Body & structure (3)Brakes (3)

1 of 70 complaints match · Lane Departure · crash/fire/injury only · clear filters

Nov 18, 2024Lane DepartureCrash1 injury

I was driving on a two lane highway in the mountains and came around a small right-veering turn in the road. I straightened out the wheel to resume traveling straight, and my car’s auto-steer kicked in and pulled left into the center divider, and then right across two lanes and crashed into the side of the mountain. The auto-steer has pulled me out of lanes prior to this incident as well.

NHTSA ODI 11625984

Working with the data? Download all 70 complaints as CSV · fetched from NHTSA July 19, 2026

How to use these: a complaint is one owner’s report, filed voluntarily and published unverified. Patterns matter more than any single story. If several owners describe the same failure at similar mileage, put that system at the top of your pre-purchase inspection list. Back to the full 2023 Subaru Forester Wilderness verdict →