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2009 Subaru FORESTER Electronic Stability Control Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	749938
Internal NHTSA #	10294344
Manufacurer	SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC.
Brand	SUBARU
Model	FORESTER
Model Year	2009
File date	29/11/09
Component	ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	I am writing to you today with great regret. After a lot of researching and thought, i purchased the subaru forester on august 2008 from dunning subaru ann arbor mi 48103. What drew me towards the forester was the 4 wheel drive so i was very happy to purchase this car. I was very happy with it up till a couple of months ago when i started experiencing problems. First, after returning from an oil change on may 2009, i came home and packed my car. Later when i went back to the garage, the floor was filled with oil because it was dripping from the engine; i was terribly upset and contacted subaru right away. They asked me to come back and took care of it. Again, on november 29th i was on my way back from dropping my daughter at wayne state university when engine suddenly just stopped. It started making some odd sounds on the passenger side and just within 5 seconds, the engine was dead. I was on highway heading towards ann arbor, which is a extremely busy highway. But to my luck, at that moment it was not crowded, and i was able to switch lanes and pull over to the curb right away. Because the engine stopped so suddenly and quickly, it did not give me enough time to pull over all the way to the curb, causing my car to be half in the lane, and half on the curb, try to consider how dangerous that situation is, especially on a rainy night at 11pm. After pulling over to the curb, we waited 20 minutes(in the rainy weather) to let the engine cool down and tried restarting the car because we didn't expect something like this from subaru. Unfortunately, that did not work, and nothing work. The only option we were left with was to call aaa and have the car towed. While making the calls to aaa, a cop pulled up behind us to tell us that our car was in danger because we were half in the lane and half in the curb, as i mentioned earlier, because of subaru
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	21000
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	ANN ARBOR, MI
VIN pattern	JF2SH61629HXXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
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Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	65
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A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
What is Defect?
Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2009 Subaru FORESTER Electronic Stability Control Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2009 Subaru FORESTER Electronic Stability Control Problems, Complaints and Defects

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