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Vehicle history — accidents, title & owners
The decode above is what this vehicle is. For what it's been through — accidents, title brands, odometer, theft/total-loss and previous owners — pull a full history report.
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.
JF2SJARCXFH••••••2015 Subaru FORESTER
That is about average for the 2015 Subaru FORESTER — 4 complaints per build across 146 builds.
4on this build
593on the model
146builds in total
1involved a crash
Most reportedElectrical System 2Electronic Stability Control (esc) 2Structure 1Service Brakes 1
What owners of this build wrote
StructurecrashOct 2014
The vehicle was left running in park on a slight uphill grade in a private driveway while the driver ran into the house to drop something off. She came right out of the house to find that the vehicle drove itself forward up the grade into a garage door. It was still running in…
EngineNov 2019
The contact owns a 2015 subaru forester. The contact stated that the vehicle started to consume an excessive amount of oil. The vehicle was taken to tom wood subaru (3300 e 96th st, indianapolis , in 46240) four times and they advised the contact to monitor the oil consumption.…
Electrical SystemSep 2017
I started driving and found that my hill holder, my vehicle dynamics control system, my ABS, my subaru eyesight and multiple other warning lights were all lite up. I pulled over and turned off the car and when I restarted the car I couldn't put my car into gear. It was stuck in…
Power TrainAug 2016
I leased this vehicle on june 2015. Back on 8/26/2017 while driving on freeway and going 70 mile and hour, car suddenly died in the middle of freeway. I almost got killed by a truck that was behind my vehicle. They towed this car to glendale subaru and after two days, they said…
Owner complaints…
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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 JF2SJARCXFH514247 · decoded Nov 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.