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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.
JF2SJAWC3FH••••••2015 Subaru FORESTER
That is about average for the 2015 Subaru FORESTER — 4 complaints per build across 146 builds.
5on this build
591on the model
146builds in total
1involved a crash
1involved a fire
Most reportedEngine 3Structure 2Vehicle Speed Control 1Electronic Stability Control (esc) 1
What owners of this build wrote
StructurefireAug 2017
Car passed state inspection on 8/3/2017 with 18500 miles. One week later, car was taken on short errand and burst into flames with driver inside upon being placed in park. Fire department and police assessed the situation
Visibility/wiperMar 2021
Driver side window suddenly shattered. Nobody was nearby, no rocks, car was just leaving gas station on surface street, turning left to enter freeway in a quarter mile when the drivers side window shattered for no explanation. Traveling approximately 5 mph
Vehicle Speed ControlFeb 2019
Eyesight system fails regularly or does not work at all. This impacts all proximity warnings, automatic speed control and wheel slip control
EngineOct 2017
Car burning oil at substantial rate between oil changes. Need to top up oil twice between 6000 mile oil change intervals. Car is an automatic transmission. Subaru provides engine block replacement for issue for 2015 foresters with manual transmission and for previous model years…
StructurecrashSep 2016
While parking and apply the brakes the car suddenly accelerated. My wife was parking the car and while pulling into the parking stall she applied the brakes and the car suddenly accelerated and rammed into a steel cable that separated the parking stalls
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 JF2SJAWC3FH511646 · decoded Nov 2026. — ForCar Reviewed by Denis Kataev, founder of ForCar.