Garage kept automobile with less than 18,000 miles, never taken off road. The bottom of both rear strut springs unexpectedly broke causing vehicle to drop affecting steering and stability. Apparent cause: Defective part failed due to premature rusting causing

- Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The steering wheel "leather" coating has been disintegrating for over a year now. The Subaru service said it is a common issue with 2014 Subaru forest. & should be recalled. Eventually, the undercoat foam material will also disintegrate, he said. Also, both front lower control arms, bushings, band drive, (something like a drive shaft), strut & axel joint had to be replaced at only 69K miles. My car has never been in any accident or hit anything. Subaru paid for failed control arm replacement. This is an extremely unsafe car!

- Palm Harbor, FL, USA

On May 13,2019 I pulled the car into my driveway and parked the car behind the house. As I was getting out of the car there was a bang on the right side (passenger side) of the car. Upon inspection on the ground were two pieces of the coil spring. There was a noticeable difference in the height of the car. The following day I took the car to my repair shop. They are replacing both rear coil springs.

- Wayne, NJ, USA

The bottom coil of the rear spring broke. The metal snapped. The vehicle was driving on a driveway and we heard a pop. We stopped and found the broken coil on the ground.

- Bloomfield, KY, USA

The contact owns a 2014 Subaru Forester. The contact stated while the vehicle was at an independent mechanic for a routine oil change, the rear driver's side coil spring fractured as the vehicle was being hoisted on the lift. The vehicle was taken to mitchell Subaru (71 albany turnpike, canton, ct 06019 (860) 693-7723) where it was awaiting diagnosis and repairs. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 69,235.

- Farmington, CT, USA

My 2014 Subaru Forester with 42,879 miles was sitting in the driveway. I noticed that the rear driver's side looked very low over the tire. When I looked under the car, there was a semi-circle piece of metal on the ground under the vehicle. The car had last been driven about two days before. I just had the Forester in my local Subaru dealership service department for a nys inspection and to remedy one recall regarding brake lights one week prior. Upon a simple internet search, I have found many, many owners reporting the exact same issue on 2014-2015 Subaru Foresters. The car is primarily driven around town in a Suburban, paved area and parked in a paved driveway.

- Wappingers Falls, NY, USA

Both rear coil springs prematurely fail in the 2014 and 2015 models. The part has been redesigned and is now in a national shortage. This spring can fail at any time during operation of the vehicle and puncture a tire. My incident occurred while it was stationary without tire damage.

- West Mifflin, PA, USA

Both rear coil springs are broken. The lowest coil has snapped off each spring and the left rear spring has fallen out of the lower pad so it is not functional at all one spring may have failed earlier, but the left failure made the problem apparent.

- Sudbury, MA, USA

Went in for state inspection and my 2014 Subaru Forester with 28000 miles was found to have a broken coil spring. Got it fixed, but I was very surprised. My car is garage kept and I only drive city streets. Goggled the topic and found that other Subaru Forester owners had similar issues and related early corrosion. Hoping you can look into the issue as this could happen on other wheels. Thanks.

- Pittsburgh, PA, USA

I was driving home from work on Friday April 19, 2019 around 7:00pm. I made a left run and heard a pop. The car became squirrelly. I pulled over at Napa and called our mechanic and described what was going on. He asked me if the car was leaning to one side or the other. I said yes. He said it was likely a bad spring or strut. When I got home, I jacked up the car and removed the tire. The right spring was broken and fell off of the strut. Saturday April 20, 2019 I got 4 quotes from tom wood Subaru. One for springs ($120 X2). One for the struts ($191). One for all the hardware needed ($770). Lastly, what tom wood Subaru would charge to do the job (around $1100). The said they were booked for at least 2 weeks with airbag recalls. I wasn't sure if I lost any parts so I looked at the left rear sides a reference. To my surprise, that spring was also completely broken but hadn't snapped off the strut yet. This seems like defective springs. The car has 54,448 miles and has not carried a lot of weight or been driven hard. In my 30+ years of driving, I have never had a car break a spring, let alone have 2 broken springs. I was really glad I wasn't in an accident since the back end was very unstable. It drifted from side to side erratically. This defect risked my safety and those around me. To make matters worse, I didn't have a car and had to have my father-in-law had to pick me up to go to easter service. This ordeal has been very stressful.

- Camby, IN, USA

I was driving at a low rate of speed in my paved apartment complex road when I heard a loud metallic ping. I thought I had just thrown a rock or something. But the next day my car was making squeaking noises when going over rough roads and over speed bumps and seemed more difficult to handle when driving. I took the car in to the dealer to find that the right rear spring had sheared and that both back spring were badly rusted. I only had just over 21,000 miles and do not drive off road or do any towing. Both springs had to be replaced. This seems to have happened far too soon in the life of car -- I believe it is a manufacturing defect given how many other people I've heard having the exact same issue. Repair bill was ~$780. Subaru did reimburse a good portion as a good will gesture - acknowledging that this was a premature failure.

- Westerville, OH, USA

I was driving home from work on April 19, 2019. I made a left turn and heard a pop. The car became squirrelly. I called our mechanic and he asked if the car leaned to one side or the other. I said yes. He said it was likely a bad spring or strut. When I got home I jacked up the car and the right rear spring was broken. I got 3 quotes from tom wood Subaru. One for springs. One for struts and hardware. The last was for tom wood to fix it. I wasn't sure if I lost any parts so I looked at the left rear side. To my surprise, that spring was also completely broken but hasn't snapped off the strut yet. This seems like defective springs. The car had 54,448 miles and has not carried a lot of weight. In my 30+ years of driving, I have never had a car break a spring, let alone have 2 broken springs.

- Camby, IN, USA

1) cvt valve kit damaged (3 years old) 2) but main reason for this compliant is rear coils breaking, I do not know but they have been broken for some time causing rear bearings and rear shocks damage. Did some research and found everyone w/ 2014 thru 2015 Foresters are having this problem at any mileage. Told dealer and they said Subaru knows of this problem but has not issued a recall" the average person will not realize their coils could be broken like me until bearings and shocks fail..... this sounds like a major issue to me"

- Lakeville, MA, USA

Premature rear spring broke. Car is 65K miles. Rear spring rusted and broke; causes the entire rear suspension to break. This make the car tilted and almost out of control. I was on a local road traveling at 25 mph going straight. I brought the car to star Subaru service and was being charged $890 to replace rear driver side suspension. Upon inspection, the rear passenger side spring also rusted.

- Jamaica, NY, USA

My 2014 Subaru Forester was sitting in my garage. I heard this horrible, almost explosive noise and found that my left coil spring snapped! this car has 68K miles and has never carrier heavy loads or traveled rough roads. I drive all highway. Super shocking to have this happen while it is just sitting, but I cringe to think if this happened 1 day earlier driving 22 miles from work or with my family. The coil was just completely sheared off. My car is sitting on the crossbar very close to sitting directly on my tire. Waiting for the assessment from Subaru to see if it caused any additional damage.

- Lorain, OH, USA

Pieces of my rear coils broke off showing badly rusted. Some in street some in my garage. Vehicle started to drive differently. Took to Firestone and both rear coils broke and 1 strut as well. Subaru knows about this but I did not and took to non Subaru place for repairs. So they refused to make good or stand behind their vehicle because I didnt go to a Subaru dealer and offered 500 cost me $1556. This should have been a recall used metal that rusted and failed.

- Volo, IL, USA

Left rear coil spring broken not due to heavy load or rough terrain driving vehicle only has approx. 27,000 miles on it.from what I'm seeing on line and hearing from other owners and dealers, it is a pretty common problem.

- Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Bottom of both left and right rear coil springs broke - at the point where they sit on the lower spring seat of the strut. They both fractured at exactly the same spot on the coil - at the first 1/2 loop of the coil (about 4 inches) and in the same diagonal type of shear. Pictures attached of the pieces that broke off each coil. Car has only 58,000 miles and never driven off road or overloaded. Not exactly sure when they broke - was discovered by my mechanic while doing other work on the car.

- Morris Plains, NJ, USA

When make turns in moving(backward or forward), there is noisy(click) in front wheel suspension

- Newark, DE, USA

Rear coil spring failed after 56,000 miles. It was not a result of any incident. Car was well maintained and not driven off road, mostly highway miles.

- New York, NY, USA