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Subaru Impreza 2019

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

1.05 per 1,000

2.2 times this nameplate’s own median · from 75 complaints filed in the first three years, of 194 ever. 95% lower bound 0.81.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	1.24	61
2009	0.40	19
2010	0.14	6
2011	0.35	11
2012	0.94	64
2013	0.50	32
2014	0.38	22
2015	0.24	15
2016	0.29	18
2017	0.62	44
2018	0.48	39
2019	1.05	75
2020	1.15	63

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Exterior Lighting 63 complaints

tool confirms	42	66%
confirms parts	42	66%
confirms	42	66%
tool	42	66%
however part	42	66%
part recall	41	65%

Visibility/Wiper 55 complaints

windshield	52	94%
crack	30	54%
cracked	26	47%
windshield cracked	16	29%
spontaneously	10	19%
bottom	10	19%

When it breaks

77% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 12,000 miles, from 66 complaints that recorded one).

Failures cluster early, which is the signature of how the car was built rather than of wear. A low-mileage example has not yet passed the risk window.

What NHTSA did

No NHTSA investigation covers this model year.

That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11165423 · 11185650 · 11195959 · 11221895 · 11222002 · 11240289

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.