2007 Subaru Impreza
This year drew an ordinary 68 complaints for a Subaru Impreza — the model's median is 75. What they were about is the unusual part: 33.8% of them mention takata, against 1.3% across the model's other years.
Last year of its generation. This Subaru Impreza ran from 2002 to 2007, so it had the whole run for its faults to be found and fixed. Last years are usually the most sorted of a generation.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 68 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 75 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 9 |
| EPA combined | 21 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- takata — 33.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.3% across the model's other years (26.7×).
- date — 14.7% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (5.3×). Owners wrote it as: date, receive, period.
- provide — 14.7% of this year's complaints, against 4% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: provide, become, four times, fourth.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
TAKATA RECALL. THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 SUBARU IMPREZA. THE CONTACT RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 16V359000 (AIR BAGS). THE PART WAS NOT AVAILABLE WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME FRAME TO SCHEDULE THE RECALL REPAIR. THE DEALER DID NOT GIVE A SPECIFIC…
TAKATA RECALL WE RECEIVED THE RECALL AT THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST. WE WERE TOLD WHEN WE CALLED THE DEALERSHIP THAT IT WOULD BE READY TO REPAIR IN SEPTEMBER. IT NOW SEEMS THERE IS NO ANSWER AS TO WHEN THE REPAIR CAN BE COMPLETED.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 20V003000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V002000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 11V464000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 17V026000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V016000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V014000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V359000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 9. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Impreza was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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