Received recall notice about seat sensor and airbag defect. need to,get,this repaired as a recall, but parts supposedly not yet available. error messages since august when dealer told me that it was an air bag issue.
Intermittent dash light saying the passenger seat belt and air bag is turned off with passenger in the seat and when car is being driven. comes on in city and highway driving both..
Sensor in the passenger seat went bad under normal use and subaru does not want to cover expense to replace, and this sensor lets driver know if airbag is engaged (on) or not.
The airbag sensor in the front passenger seat randomly goes off when there's a passenger in the car or not. the seat belt alarm for the passenger side goes off without a passenger in the car. airbag sensor says "off" with a passenger in the car. this is very unsafe, as i do not know if that airbag is truly functional, and also an annoyance, as the seatbelt alarm dings while i'm driving.
In early may 2019, the vehicle started giving airbag warnings and disabling the front passenger airbag when the front passenger seat was occupied. i reported the problem to my subaru dealer's service department when i took it in for routine service a couple weeks later. it took a month to get an appointment to have the warning diagnosed. finally they did the analysis and told me the passenger seat sensor had failed, and claimed it was because the seat got wet (it didn't). after i complained to management they comp'd the repair and replaced the front passenger seat cushion at the end of june. the problem hasn't recurred.
Subaru is knowingly building its cars with faulty passenger side air bag sensors which will randomly turn off the air bag while the passenger seat is occupied under normal life driving conditions. it is in the 2016 and 2017 owners manual that if there is a cell phone or electrical device in the front area of the car then the air bag sensors could malfunction. it also states that if your passenger is wearing a jacket or sweater this could cause the sensors to turn the life saving air bag off. my 17 teenager had no electronics but a sweater on and it shut off air bag while traveling on highway. how is this legal to knowingly sell a car with faulty safety equipment . attached is the pages from the 2016 subaru forester owners manual.