2014 Subaru Legacy
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Subaru Legacy — the model's median is 90. What they were about is the unusual part: 13.2% of them mention remote, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation.
Last year of its generation. This Subaru Legacy ran from 2010 to 2014, 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 | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 90 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 24 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- remote — 13.2% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the other years of this generation (7.1×). Owners wrote it as: remote, using, key, manually.
- windshield — 11.3% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the other years of this generation (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: windshield, crack, visibility, circular.
- tried — 7.5% of this year's complaints, against 2.7% across the other years of this generation (2.8×).
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
a small circular crack had formed on the lower driver’s side windshield without incident. The contact stated that she had not repaired the small crack since it did not obstruct her vison. Recently, the contact stated that another crack had formed horizontally…
THE SUNROOF METAL DRAIN TUBES WERE CLOGGED CAUSING WATER TO DRAIN INSIDE THE CABIN OF THE VEHICLE. DUE TO THE FAILURE, THERE WAS CONDENSATION ON THE WINDSHIELD WHICH REDUCED DRIVER VISIBILITY WHILE DRIVING. THE CONTACT CLEANED THE WINDSHIELD BOTH MANUALLY AND…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 18V626000 PARKING BRAKE Fixed free of charge.
- 19V007000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V009000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V008000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 19V297000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 16V694000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 13V336000 POWER TRAIN Fixed free of charge.
- 20V001000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Subaru Legacy 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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