Tl* the contact owns a 2020 subaru outback. the contact stated that while stopped, the steering ceased. the contact stated that the failure was intermittent. the contact stated that the failure was also experienced while driving at approximately 20 mph, with the steering being difficult to operate. no warning light was illuminated. the contact stated that the vehicle was towed to stohlman subaru service located at 8435 leesburg pike, vienna, va 22182 and was made aware of the failure. the vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. the manufacturer was informed of failure. the failure mileage was 2,300.
Dec 7th. lane centering and cruise control functions on. while traveling south on i-75 in the center lane my wife moved to the left lane to pass another car. after passing the car she had to fight the steering wheel to stay in the left hand lane. after several minutes she took her hands off the wheel and the car veered sharply to the right and across the dashed white line into the center lane. as she righted herself back into the left hand lane i reached over and turned the lane centering function off. about 15 minutes later she was following a brown van. the cruise control was still on, was maintaining a speed of 68 mph and safe distance. cruise was set at 70mph and distance at 4 bars. the van exited the interstate at which time the outback started a hard acceleration and had reached a speed of 87 mph before i realized what was happening and turned off cruise control. acceleration factor was set to normal, i then set it to eco dec 19th. cruise control on, lane centering on cruise set at 70 mph, distance at 2 bars. passed a semi that was doing less than 70 mph. i now had a pack behind me and another pack a good ways in front of me. moved back into the center lane where i passed the truck. cruise started accelerating, at 77mph turned the cruise off. my foot was not on the accelerator. cruise acceleration was still on eco mode. speed then decreased as expected. i now have 2 instantaneous of where the cruise control accelerated the vehicle passed the set speed. i now have 1 instantaneous of where the vehicle would not stay in its lane. note. i like my subaru outback very much. it is quiet, comfortable and easy to drive. however, i believe the incorrect functioning of the vehicle on the above two dates warrant documentation for further safety investigation. neither the dealer or subaru has yet been informed
My wife and i were driving home on i35 in oklahoma. the road was straight. it was nighttime. i had all the subaru eyesight safety systems enabled. both hands were on the steering wheel, with adaptive cruise control set at 70mph. lane centering was among the features operating. i suddenly experienced an instantaneous and very abrupt, uncommanded ~30-40 degree clockwise rotation of the steering wheel. the whole event lasted just 2-3 seconds and i quickly recovered back to the left. fortunately, the lateral displacement of our track was only a few feet into the breakdown lane on the interstate. my manual control inputs on the steering wheel easily overcame the actuator. i immediately disabled the lane centering function and we continued home without further incident. the takeaway that i want to emphasize is that this was an extremely abrupt, sudden hard right deflection of the wheel. this was not the normal gentle nudge and slow, slight steering wheel movements that the lane keep and lane centering systems normally provide. imagine that your passenger reached over and forcefully grabbed the steering wheel and yanked hard down on it - that's as closely as i can describe this.
Tl* the contact owns a 2020 subaru outback. while driving 55 mph with the cruise control engaged, the contact lost control of the steering and the vehicle veered to the left. the contact managed to regain control of the steering. miller hill subaru (4710 miller trunk hwy, duluth, mn 55811, (218) 722-5337) was contacted and scheduled a diagnostic test. the vehicle was not repaired. the manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. the failure mileage was approximately 600.
While driving on the highway i had adaptive cruise control and lane centering turned on. i was driving on a straight stretch of highway when my steering wheel jutted left very hard. i had both hands on the wheel when this happened but was unprepared for it. this caused me to verge into the median. i corrected the vehicle steering and continued driving. a few minutes later, my vehicle did this again while still on a straight section of highway causing me to almost hit the car next to me. i stopped using lance centering after this occurred and reached out to subaru of america. they requested i take the car into my local shop which i did. the dealer did not find any issues with lane centering and had no reason why this would occur.