2011 Subaru Outback Other Problems

This complaint describes a financial and legal dispute rather than a vehicle defect. You co-signed a loan for someone else's vehicle but were never added to the title, leaving you financially responsible while having no ownership rights. The borrower has stopped making payments, failed to maintain insurance, and continued driving despite a suspended license and registration — resulting in accidents and insurance claim issues.

Your car's engine is stalling and shutting off when you come to a stop at traffic lights, similar to stalling a manual transmission car. This issue has been occurring for several months and poses a safety concern when the engine unexpectedly dies while driving. The problem may be related to the torque converter locking mechanism. A mechanic will need to diagnose and potentially repair or replace the torque converter to resolve the stalling issue.

My front subframe broke. I was driving the car and was exiting the highway. I heard a snap n then had no control. Had my mechanic look at car and said frame snapped and control arm broke. The week before i had my car alignment and new tires put on. Nothing was noticed then. Mechsaud rusted from inside out.. After talkwith many different repair shops, they all stated that the front subframe breaks on subarus. They need to change the design. I called subaru and asked them to fix. Said car was to old and to many miles. I have owned cars for over 40yrs , with well over 200k mils on them. I have never had a frame break. It's very unusual when mechanics says this is a problem with subaru. Plus the subframes are on backorder. Thats how many they are selling. Even the used parts dealers can't get them

My 2011 Subaru Outback with the automatic CVT transmission has recently started stalling and dying entirely when coming to an abrupt stop. Or even coming to a stop in general, regardless of speed. This having started within the last month or so around the begging of March, 2022. My vehicle has just passed the 10 year mark and is still currently under 100k miles, currently at 96k. After much research and a few trips to the mechanic, I have found that this is a common issue regarding the torque converter within many Subaru vehicles. I have also found that this was such a common issue that this should have been labeled as a recall. But have discovered that this was an “extended warranty” concern instead. That being said, I have, on more than one occasion, come to a stop in traffic with my child in the car and my car just dies in the middle of the road. Which is entirely unsafe and in my opinion deserves a recall.

The vehicle stalls out at stop signs and red light as far as I’m concerned this is a safety hazard.I-took it to Minooka Subaru and they said it it was a torque converter I had it fixed it cost me 1500 dollars and as far as I’m concerned it should be reimbursed because.,it is very much a safety hazard. This happen d numerous of times.

The hood latch will not stay locked so it’s popping as I’m driving. The hood hasn’t completely come up, yet, but it’s definitely an imminent danger. It has happened multiple times over the last three days.

ENGINE STALLING. WHEN STOPPING AT RED LIGHT, ENGINE SHUT DOWN A FEW TIMES. ONCE I LOST ALL ELECTRICITY AND MANEUVERABILITY OF THE CAR. I ALSO HAD IGNITION PROBLEMS. THE CAR WON'T START SOMETIMES. I BROUGHT TO DEALERSHIP 4-5X AND MY CAR SPENT A MONTH AT DEALER. THEY CANNOT FIND THE CAUSE. I READ THIS COULD BE DUE TO CVT TRANSMISSION. I BOUGHT MY CAR FROM A SUBARU DEALER TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO AND ONLY DROVE 7K MILES. CURRENT MILEAGE IS 95K. SUBARU EXTENDED WARRANTY OF MY MODEL TO 10 YEARS FOR TRANSMISSION. BUT SO FAR THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING. I THINK THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL. WHEN MY CAR STALLED, I HAD TO CALL POLICE AS MY CAR BLOCKED THE ROAD AND CAUSE TRAFFIC JAM. THIS IS A ROAD HAZARD. THANK YOU.

I HAVE BEEN REPORTING PROBLEMS WITH MY TRANSMISSION SINCE 2012 TO MY REGULAR DEALERSHIP, STAR SUBARU WHEN THE CAR HAD JUST 23,472 MILES ON IT. AT THIS POINT, I BELIEVE THAT I HAVE BEEN WRONGFULLY DENIED WARRANTY COVERAGE. *BF.. THE CONSUMER STATED THE VEHICLE WOULD SPONTANEOUSLY JUMP OR SLAM WHILE DRIVING. COIL REPAIRS WERE ATTEMPTED, BUT THE PROBLEM PERSISTED. THE DEALER DISCOVERED THE FAILURE CODE WAS P1710 TORQUE CONVERTER. TURBINE SPEED SIGNAL CIRCUIT MALFUNCTION, AFTER THE WARRANTY WAS EXPIRED. THE MANUFACTURER OFFERED TO ASSIST WITH REPAIRS. THE CONSUMER STATED THE REPAIRS COST $6,000 THE DEALER OFFERED $2,500 TOWARDS THE REPAIR OR A NEW VEHICLE. THE CONSUMER DID NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS.*JS

A SQUEAKING NOISE WHILE STARTING THE ENGINE MAY BE DUE TO A FAULTY RING GEAR ON THE TORQUE CONVERTER.

SHUTTERS WHEN YOU PUT IT IN REVERSE. ALSO, WILL SHUTTER AND STALL WHEN COMING TO A STOP. VERY DANGEROUS WHEN AT A BUSY INTERSECTION AND I HAVE TO PUT THE VEHICLE IN PARK AND RESTART IT!! 123,000 MILES, SO NO LONGER UNDER WARRANTY. I'VE SEEN MANY OTHER COMPLAINTS OF THE EXACT SAME ISSUE, BUT SUBARU HAS NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THERE IS A PROBLEM! WE BOUGHT THIS VEHICLE USED AS WE CANNOT AFFORD BRAND NEW CAR PAYMENTS AND WERE TOLD BY MANY THAT SUBARU IS A VERY RELIABLE VEHICLE. WILL DEFINITELY NOT BY ANOTHER SUBARU AND WILL DISCOURAGE ANYONE ELSE FROM DOING SO!!

DRIVER WAS ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A TURN AROUND IN A DRIVEWAY AND NEEDED TO STOP AND SWITCH REVERSE. THE CAR WOULD NOT STOP AND DRIVER WAS NOT ABLE TO SWITCH GEARS AND HIT GARAGE WALL.

WE HAVE PASSED DOWN MY HUSBANDS 2011 OUTBACK TO OUR TEENAGE DAUGHTER AS HER FIRST CAR. THIS CAR HAS BEEN TAKEN VERY GOOD CARE OF AND IS SERVICED REGULARLY. IT HAS BEEN DRIVEN MOSTLY HIGHWAY MILES $146,000. LAST YEAR IN JANUARY THE CAR ACTED UP AND THE HEAD GASKET, TIMING BELT, WATER PUMP WERE ALL FIXED ($3500.00). IN THE PAST EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE THE CAR WOULD STALL OUT AT A LIGHT OR WHEN CHANGING FROM REVERSE TO DRIVE. 2 DAYS AFTER MY DAUGHTER STARTED USING IT AROUND TOWN SHE NOTICED IT STALLING EVERY TIME SHE WENT OUT. WE DID SOME RESEARCH AND APPARENTLY THE TORQUE CONVERTER IS A KNOW ISSUE WITH SUBARU AND AN EXTENDED WARRANTY HAS BEEN ISSUED RATHER THAN A REPAIR. WE BROUGHT THE CAR TO OUR SUBARU DEALER AGAIN AND THEY AGREED THAT IT WAS THE TORQUE CONVERTER AND COULD BE REPAIRED FOR $1950. IT WOULD NOT BE COVERED UNDER THE EXTENDED WARRANTY BECAUSE OF THE MILES ON THE CAR. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED AS ANACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO A PROBLEM. THERE IS A KNOWN ISSUE WITH THIS CAR THAT CAUSES THE CAR TO STALL. SUBARU SEEMS TO HAVE GONE AROUND THE ACTUAL PROBLEM BY NOT USING THE WORD "STALL" IN ITS DISTRIBUTION OF THE PROBLEM. THEY SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL CARS THAT STALL WHILE DRIVING WHEN THEY PUT IN A FAULTY PARTS. IF MY HUSBAND DROVE MORE AROUND TOWN I AM SURE WE WOULD HAVE REALIZED THIS BEFORE BUT THIS IS NOT A PROBLEM THAT THE CONSUMER SHOULD HAVE TO TAKE ON... A CAR THAT IS KNOWN TO STALL SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE ROAD AND THE COMPANY WHO CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE TO PAY FOR IT... I EXPECTED MORE FROM SUBARU AND THEY WANT US TO PUT OUR FAMILY INTO THEIR CARS? WELL MY DAUGHTER WON'T BE DRIVING A CAR THAT ISN'T SAFE.

I OBSERVE EVERYTIME MY CAR IS COMING TO STOP IT WILL SHRUD LIKE THE ENGINE GOIN TO DIE OR STALLED. THEN OUT OF NOWHERE THE ENGINE ICON, ABS LIT-UP AND CRUISE CONTROL FLASHING

TAKATA RECALL" I WAS DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE HWY. THE CAR IN FRONT OF ME SLAMMED ON BRAKES, SO I STEPPED ON MY BRAKES, CAR TURKED TO A STOP WHILE ENGINE STALLED. DEAD STOP ON INTERSTATE. NOT A GOOD THING. I STARTED IT BACK UP, KEPT DRIVING, WHEN , I CAME TO A SAFER STOP SIGN. I TRIED TO STEP ON BRAKES LIKE I HAD DONE ON INTERSTATE AND IT TURKED TO A STOP AGAIN STALLING. IT DOESN'T SEEM SAFE TO ME. I AM GLAD NO ONE WAS BEHIND ME ON INTERSTATE OR I AM AFRAID IT WOULD NOT HAVE ENDED WELL.

TORQUE CONVERTER ISSUE

AS I WAS DRIVING MY 2011 SUBARU OUTBACK 2.5 AS I DO ALWAYS ON A NORMAL BASIS I RECENTLY CAME TO A STOP SIGN AND WHEN I CAME TO AN ABRUPT STOP MY VEHICLE STALLED OUT LEAVING ME VULNERABLE FOR ONCOMING TRAFFIC I HAD TO PUT THE VEHICLE IN PARK AND RESTART THE CAR IT STARTS RIGHT BACK UP BUT EVERY TIME I HAVE TO PUT MY FOOT HEAVY ON THE BRAKE TO STOP AND TRAFFIC THE VEHICLE CUTS OFF WITHOUT FAIL EVERY TIME HAS ALSO HAPPENED TO ME ONE TIME AND HEAVY TRAFFIC JAM ON HIGHWAY VERY SCARY!!

ISSUE - STALLING WHILE BRAKING HARD OR STOPPING (AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION) WHAT HAPPENED - MY 2011 SUBARU HAS JUST UNDER 80K MILEAGE. IT HAS NOW HAPPENED TO ME 3X THIS WEEK AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CAR HASN'T BEEN DRIVEN IN HOURS (MORNING EARLY ON MY WAY TO WORK OR ON MY WAY HOME FROM WORK). IN THE MORNING, I WAS DRIVING DOWN A STREET TO DROP OFF MY KIDS AT SCHOOL. I NEEDED TO MAKE A LEFT, BUT SINCE THERE WAS ONCOMING TRAFFIC, I HAD TO BRAKE. IT WAS NOT A GRADUAL BRAKE, BUT WAS A BIT SUDDEN. THE CAR SHUDDERED AND STALLED. IT IS SIMILAR TO WHAT HAPPENS WITH MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS IF YOU ARE IN GEAR AND COME TO A STOP WITHOUT PRESSING THE CLUTCH. BUT MY CAR IS AN AUTOMATIC, SO I HAD TO PUT IT IN PARK AND RESTART IT. IF THE CAR STALLED WHILE I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INTERSECTION OR IF I PANICKED, IT COULD HAVE CAUSED AN ACCIDENT. CAUSE - UNKNOWN. IT AT THE DEALER FOR SERVICE AND THEY ARE TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT. SOME ONLINE SOURCES MENTIONED THE TORQUE CONVERTER OR SENSORS.

CAR STALLS WHEN YOU COME TO A STOP. DOES NOT HAPPEN IF YOU STOP SLOWLY. HAS HAPPENED SEVERAL TIMES.

PRETTY MUCH SINCE I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE THE ANTI-SKID LIGHTS, CRUISE CONTROL, PARKING BRAKE & CHECK ENGINE LIGHTS WILL FLASH AND WILL NOT GO OFF. I WAS TOLD TO MAKE SURE THE GAS CAP WAS TIGHT AND WAS ALSO TOLD TO CHECK THE BATTERY. ONCE WHEN IT WAS ON I TRIED TO PRESS THE PARKING BRAKE TO RELEASE AND COULD NOT GET IT OFF AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT AND WAS NEARLY REAR ENDED. IT WILL RANDOMLY COME ON AND SOMETIMES STAY ON FOR WEEKS THEN GO OFF AND STAY OFF FOR A FEW DAYS. IT COMES ON WHEN CAR IS STARTED AND DOES NOT USUALLY GO OFF.

OUR SUBARU OUTBACK (2011) HAS BEEN SHUDDERING AND DYING WHEN COMING TO STOPS. IT BEGAN DOING THIS APPROXIMATELY MARCH/APRIL OF 2016, AND THE ISSUE IS STILL NOT RESOLVED. WE TOOK IT TO THE SUBARU DEALERSHIP'S SERVICE CENTER IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, VERY CONCERNED, IN MAY OF 2016, BUT THEY TOLD US THEY COULD NOT REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM. (HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE, SINCE IT DOES IT SO OFTEN?) WE TOOK IT IN AGAIN IN WINTER/SPRING 2016, AND THEY FINALLY ACKNOWLEDGED WE HAD AN ISSUE AND TOLD US THAT THE TORQUE CONVERTER NEEDED TO BE REPLACED TO THE TUNE OF $1500-$1800! WE WERE CONCERNED, ESPECIALLY, BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY ISSUE, AND, FURTHER, BECAUSE OF THE COST TO US TO FIX IT. IF SUBARU HAD IDENTIFIED AND DEALT WITH THE ISSUE WHEN IT FIRST STARTED, WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN UNDER SOME KIND OF WARRANTY. WE TOOK THE CAR HOME, DID SOME RESEARCH AND DISCOVERED THAT LOTS AND LOTS OF OTHER OWNERS OF THIS MAKE AND MODEL HAVE BEEN HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM WE DESCRIBED TO THE SUBARU DEALERSHIP OVER A YEAR AGO. HOW COULD SUBARU NOT KNOW THIS IS A HUGE SAFETY ISSUE? THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF COMPLAINTS OUT THERE! WE HAVE SINCE BEEN BORROWING MY PARENTS' CAR FOR LONGER DRIVES AND HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO COVER THE COST OF THE REPAIR. TODAY WE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM SUBARU INDICATING THEY WERE GIVING US A WARRANTY EXTENSION FOR THE CAR'S CVT. GUESS WHAT? IT COVERS THE OUTBACK 2010-2015, THEY WROTE. HOW LONG HAS SUBARU KNOWN THIS WAS AN ISSUE WHILE FAMILIES LIKE MINE WERE DRIVING A CAR WITH A MAJOR SAFETY FLAW? I CALLED THE DEALERSHIP'S SERVICE DESK IMMEDIATELY AND TALKED WITH A REP WHO WANTED TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS ISN'T A RECALL, (REALLY?) AND THAT I'D HAVE TO CALL BACK TO FIND OUT IF IT'LL BE COVERED BY THIS WARRANTY EXTENSION SINCE, APPARENTLY, THE TORQUE CONVERTER, THOUGH RELATED, ISN'T "TECHNICALLY" THE CVT. HE SAID THEY HAD DONE A SIMILAR REPAIR, THOUGH, AND THE WARRANTY HAD COVERED IT.

WHILE ACCELERATING UPHILL ON A ROAD, MANY OF MY DASH LIGHTS FLASHED, INCLUDING "CHECK ENGINE", "AT OIL TEMP", "BRAKE". MY CAR LOST ITS PEP. MY CRUISE STOPPED WORKING. I COULDN'T USE MY DOWN/UPSHIFTING PADDLES AND I LIVE IN AN ICY/SNOWY CLIMATE WHICH RESULTED IN A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN MY CAR WHICH IS NORMALLY HIGHLY-RANKED IN SAFETY SURVEYS. I HAD TO REPLACE MY TORQUE CONVERTER AND MY VALVE BODY FOR >$3,0000. ADDITIONALLY, MY GAS MILEAGE DECREASED BY AT LEAST 6 MPG.

I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS A SAFETY ISSUE BUT I WAS TOLD BY THE DEALER AFTER TWO VISITS THAT THE TRANSMISSION AXLE SEAL NEEDS REPLACED AND POSSIBLY SOME OTHER PROBLEMS. *TR

2011 SUBURA OUTBACK AT 3500 MILES WOULD NOT START,JUMP STARTED WITH ROAD SIDE ASSISTANCE,THEN 3 DAYS LATER DID SAME THING,TOOK TO SUBURA AND THEY SAID THEY COULD FIND NOTHING WRONDEALER SAID THEY CHECK IT OUT ON COMPUTER,AGAIN NOTHING SHOWED,RECOMMEND WHE DOES IT AGAIN,TO CALL DEALER,BEFORE JUMP STARTING TO SEE WHAT COMPUTER WILL SAY,VERY,VERY UNHAPPY CUSTOMER,THINKING ABOUT TRADING IN. *TT