YearsTell

all vehicles · every Crosstrek year · method

Subaru Crosstrek 2016

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.26 per 1,000

0.7 times this nameplate’s own median · from 24 complaints filed in the first three years, of 132 ever. 95% lower bound 0.16.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20130.000
20160.2624
20170.2930
20180.7798
20191.45200
20200.3645
20210.5771
20220.1319
20230.1727

What owners describe

No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.

When it breaks

33% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 38,000 miles, from 78 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

10861492 · 10864730 · 10883782 · 10885711 · 10894419 · 10898634

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.