Below you may see the VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL components and the number of complaints they received.
Tl*the contact owned a 2005 subaru outback. the contact stated that the brakes failed to engage and the vehicle crashed into a tree and caught fire. t...
The consumer states that while pulling into a parking space, the vehicle went into full throttle resulting in a crash. the cause is unknown. *nlm *...
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 subaru outback. while driving with the cruise control set to 75 mph, the contact applied repeated pressure to the brakes ye...
The same problem has happened several times over the past several months, randomly, while vehicle is in motion, both on highway and on auxiliary roads at lower speeds. on 01/20/2020, while driving ~65 mph on the highway, suddenly, the car lost power--although my foot was on the gas pedal, no acceleration was possible. the car "locked up," and began to decelerate, since no gas was available. the check engine light came on, with the flashing cruise light simultaneously on. luckily, i was able to move the car across the highway and stop on the shoulder. the car was turned off, and i re-started and drove away. when this same type of event occurred another time, on 02/01/2020, the car was in motion on an auxiliary road, ~30 mph, in heavy traffic. the car again locked up, no gas was available--the car was only able to drift very slowly. i was able to make it to a stop light, which, luckily, was a red signal. at the stop, i shifted the gear into neutral. while in neutral, the engine revved to ~2500 rpm, even though no pressure was being applied to the accelerator pedal. i had to restart the car twice, ...
P2138 check engine code. vehicle lost all power while traveling 55mph in 4 lanes of traffic. gas pedal didn't work and the engine was racing. thankfully i was able to coast over into the left turn lane. the vehicle would only move forward while in drive and at a slow crawl. i was able to get a large enough window to crawl across the other 2 lanes and crawl into a parking lot. i ended up getting towed from there. when checking for repairs i had a smaller 'subaru only' repair shop tell me this is a very common problem and i am lucky no one was injured. they said they repair 1 to 2 of these each month. my local subaru dealer says they've never heard of the error code or my specific problem. they don't even stock the part i need. the internet has many reports of my specific scenario. this seems like a serious safety concern to me. something is not right here but no by seems to be doing anything about it.
I was driving in a 4 lane (two on each direction) parkway toward a red stoplight with one car stopped at my lane at the light, i was coasting, slowing down toward the car. when i was about 30 ft away the light changed, the car in front started driving and i applied the accelerator. the distance to the car in front was definitely increasing however my car went into emergency braking mode, cancelling my acceleration pedal action and stopping the car. luckily no one was behind me as it would have almost certainly ended in a rear-end collision.
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 ...
Tl* the contact owns a 2015 subaru outback. while pulling into a parking space at low speeds with the brake pedal depressed, the vehicle accelerated, jumped the curb, and crashed into a house. there were no warning indicators illuminated. there were no injuries. the air bags did not deploy. a police report was filed. the fire department arrived at the scene. the vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic. the contact called stohlman subaru of sterling (21736 auto world cir, sterling, va 20166, (888) 811-7714) and informed them of the failure. the vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was not contacted. the failure mileage was 15,000. the vin was invalid.
Windshield cracks and instantly spread with minimal impact disabling car speed control and safety systems such as pre-collision braking and lane keep assist.
An accelerator that became unresponsive while driving 65mph on 3 lane highway. this problem is prevalent with subaru and you can read about many people who have the problem which is an extreme safety issue. if you go online and search for subaru outback code p2138/throttle position sensor you will find that the sensor has intermitent failures which cause the accelerator to become unresponsive. even when people get this reset at a mechanic and supposedly fixed it will begin recurring again. or sometimes the mechanic cannot make the car fail because the problem is a sensor and the problem is intermittent. subaru must fix this problem!! this has happened to me 5 times now over the last year.
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.
I was driving down a street when my car engine was still running but i had no gas pedal response .so l coasted to side of road an shut it off an started it .then after i did that i got gas pedal response .the check engine light was on after restarting vechile so i had a code scan check it,an a code p2138 showed . the code is for the throttle/pedal sensor. i'm just glad i was not doing 65 on a highway an a semi wasn't behind me or any other vehicle
A couple days ago when i was driving on a back road and using cruise @35mph, the car for no reason suddenly started breaking as if to avoid a collision. nothing was in front of me, not even an oncoming car at a distance. no one was behind me. my response was to manually apply the brake and that kicked out cruise. i haven't had it happen again. is that something that can happen when using cruise at low speeds? if it were to happen at highway speeds, it could be quite dangerous...