Consumer Complaint Detail

SUBARU / SUBARU / 2001

Recalls
1 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 005026086 Incident Date: Jun, 20 2005
Consumer's City: STAMFORD Consumer's State: CT
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Subaru of America, Inc.
Model Name: SUBARU Model Year: 2001
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: Yes Component's Description: Air bags
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 1
Vehicle's VIN#: JF1SF63521H Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jun, 25 2005 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: Yes Purchase Date: Oct, 22 2004
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 4 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: (event)my wife was driving our 2001 subaru forester at 55mph when she was hit from behind, causing our car to swerve. she hit a lampost with the front of the forester hard enough to knock the post down, stopping our car. nobody was critically injured. (failure) the air bags did not deploy. (followup) the car has been declared a total loss. we are working out compensation with the insurance company of the car that hit ours. i am calling subaru to tell them about the air bag failure.