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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
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NHTSA publishes the first 11 characters of the VIN with every complaint — that identifies the plant, model year, body and engine. So these are reports from cars built exactly like this one, not an average across the whole model.
4S4BSANC6G3••••••2016 Subaru OUTBACK
That is about average for the 2016 Subaru OUTBACK — 4 complaints per build across 178 builds.
5on this build
631on the model
178builds in total
Most reportedElectrical System 3Visibility/wiper 1Exterior Lighting 1Engine 1
What owners of this build wrote
EngineSep 2025
Accelerated on its own doing 25mph and accelerated quickly and took pumping brakes to get it to stop
Electrical SystemJan 2022
In January 2020 my Outback failed to start. Battery was totally discharged and had to be jumpstarted. Took the car to dealer where technician tested battery and said it was good.I had him recharge the battery and test it again. It failed and they installed a new exact same…
Visibility/wiperSep 2017
Driving on the highway early in the morning, no other cars around, heard a loud pop followed by a large upside down "l" crack coming from the bottom
Electrical SystemMay 2021
For the past four years the car has insufficiently charged the battery. On two occasions the car would not start and had to be jumped. At first I attributed it to something I may have done like leaving an interior light on, but after the second incident I found out that other…
Electrical SystemJun 2019
Purchased this vehicle 3/2019, started having problems with the battery dying in a few months, even having the hatch open during cleaning would drain the battery. We would jump it with another vehicle and the battery would drain in a few days whether we used the vehicle or not.…
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Decoded via NHTSA vPIC. Recalls, complaints and safety from NHTSA; MPG from EPA fueleconomy.gov. Full history reports from our partner. VIN 4S4BSANC6G3263593 · decoded Aug 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.