We have classified the 1 complaints from 2016 Subaru Forester about STRUCTURE into the following categories.
I was parking the car in a cvs parking lot on sunrise blvd ft. lauderdale. i made a right turn into the lot and another right turn into the space on the right. it was a large space and the row of parking slots on the right side was completely empty so i went to drive the car into one of those. i made the turn into the space, driving very slowly, when the car suddenly made a loud noise and shot forward. i had done nothing to cause this. the car ran over the curb and into a cluster of shrubbery - about 7 feet wide. the car came to a stop inside the shrubbery but the engine was still going. it was the shrubbery that stopped the car. 08/ i was not injured at all. i tried to back up the car but it would not back up. another driver who saw the incident came over to see if i was okay and helped me out of the passenger side of the vehicle since the driver's side was jammed up against the shrubbery. he could not back up the car either and instead drive the car forward through the shrubs and came around back into the parking lot. we called aaa and i waited for them.
Front end total collision traveling approximately 30mph on a residential section of a main street. hit, and broke, a telephone pole. car deemed totaled. no airbags deployed.
Vehicle suddenly accelerated when i had my foot on the brake pulling into a parking space. it went over an embankment and crashed nose first into the parking lot below.
The tailgate on my 2016 forester is so low when opened that i hit my head on it every time i reach into the car. i am 6 feet tall. other people have the same experience with my tailgate. i had an earlier model forester where this was not an issue. the subaru dealers i complained to said that the hinges were designed so that a longer shock absorber or other after-market fix was not available and the problem could not be fixed until the model design was changed. this is dangerous!!
2016 subaru forester. consumer writes in regards to vehicle instrument panel impossible to see on sunny days. *smd the consumer stated no one at the dealer, could tell him where the sensor was that registered the ambient light to dim the instrument panel. *jb
2016 subaru forester. consumer writes in regards to vehicle rear hatch does not raise high enough above his head to allow it to clear underneath it, to preclude contact with his forehead. *smd