2015 Subaru Forester Body & Structure Problems

While driving I noticed my hood bouncing up and down as if the hood latch was pulled. I havent pulled the hood latch in a while and thought it couldn't be open. Upon pulling off the roadway I noticed it was able to be opened simply by sliding the lever to open the hood.

I experienced unintended acceleration while parking my car. The car surged ahead, over a curb and collided with a metal lamppost. Damage was on the body of the car’s right front.

Car passed state inspection on 8/3/2017 with 18500 miles. One week later, car was taken on short errand and burst into flames with driver inside upon being placed in park. Fire department and police assessed the situation.

My 2015 subaru forester xt was taken to an authorized subaru dealership numerous visits to the for an issue in which the cars engine lights and warnings would display, violently shake, shudder and lose power while at highway speed. Am authorized subaru mechanic was able to replicate the issue, they did an ecm computer update...unfortunately, the problems did not go away after the update.

Car suddenly accelerated, about 10-15 feet, from reverse to drive into a brick building,in a private parking lot causing 7k damage to my cars. Prior to this crash, the lane departure and auto breaking lights were flashing on and off. I was going to take the car to the dealer however, the crash prevented that.

Car was driven out of new car dealer without incident by driver with 50 plus years experience. Approximately three to four miles into trip car experienced sudden unintended acceleration after going through a traffic light. Car proceeded into wooded area and hit tree causing lower leg injuries to driver and moderate to severe damage to car.

While parking and apply the brakes the car suddenly accelerated. My wife was parking the car and while pulling into the parking stall she applied the brakes and the car suddenly accelerated and rammed into a steel cable that separated the parking stalls.

The rear door hinges do not open fully and it is easy to hit your head. I hit my head unloading groceries, and my boyfriend did as well. It is dangerous.

The driver's side interior door handle no longer functions. When the door is shut, and unlocked, and the interior door handle is pulled, nothing happens. The exterior door handle still functions, but the interior handle does not.

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 subaru forester. The contact stated that after discovering a crack at the base of the front windshield the crack had expanded approximately 16 inches over 3 days. The cause of the crack was not determined.

Yesterday 9/5/19 the tailgate strut on our 2015 subaru forrester suddenly failed causing the rear gate which was open to abruptly fall onto my spouse's head while she was unloading groceries. The metal bolt with the round ball that fits into the end of the strut cracked off and appeared rusted at the edges. This appears to be the same/similar issue as NHTSA recall no.

Tl* the contact owns a 2015 subaru forester. When the contact's wife lifted the hatchback, the left support arm fractured. The vehicle was taken to carbone subaru of troy (800 hoosick rd, troy, ny 12180, 518-312-4300) where it was diagnosed that the left hatchback support arm was fractured.

Rear hatch lift struts failed (pneumatically) unexpectedly causing hatch to fall down on me while loading groceries.

Strut on rear hatch, subaru 2015 forester, broke at attachment point, hatch fell with great force, nearly hit my head. Vehicle was stationary.

The vehicle was left running in park on a slight uphill grade in a private driveway while the driver ran into the house to drop something off. She came right out of the house to find that the vehicle drove itself forward up the grade into a garage door. It was still running in park wedged into the garage door.