8.3

pretty bad
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
4,173 miles

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problem #72

Jul 182020

Outback

  • 6,000 miles
Windshield cracked while driving on road.

- Cameron Park, CA, USA

problem #71

Jul 182020

Outback

  • 10,000 miles
The windshield cracked for no reason I never saw anything hit it or never heard anything hit it. It looks like it started at the edge of the glass. Then the crack began to spread over night while car was sitting, because I woke up the next morning in the crack was way longer.

- Cincinnati, OH, USA

problem #70

Jul 162020

Outback

  • 25 miles
2020 Subaru Outback. Cracker windshield from a pebble nick. Not a rock.

- Amityville, NY, USA

problem #69

Jul 092020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 2,000 miles
I went into a store. When I came out, there was a S shaped crack in the windshield, starting on the passenger side. No cars were parked near mine. The crack seemed to appear spontaneously.

- Eden Prairie, MN, USA

problem #68

Jul 122020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 5,000 miles
Windshield cracked while driving

- Reno, NV, USA

problem #67

Jul 052020

Outback

  • 3,000 miles
Two oem windshields cracked (including the original) within 1 week of either buying the car or replacing them. Both windshields' crack started from the middle of either the supporting left or right bars, go in for about 6 inches, and then curved downward. Vehicle was in motion, no car in front of us to kick up gravel, no impact point on glass.

- Colorado Springs, CO, USA

problem #66

Jul 102020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 4,500 miles
A large crack (10") appeared in our windshield while driving on the highway with no apparent impact from any debris on our new Outback

- San Mateo, CA, USA

problem #65

Jun 292020

Outback 4-cyl

  • miles
A crack spontaneously appeared on my windshield a few days ago..it looks like an edge crack that just formed while it was stationary on my driveway and doesn't appear to be formed by contact with any object. This car is just 4 months old and has not been driven much. I believe this is a defect in the glass!

- Alameda, CA, USA

problem #64

Jun 252020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 103 miles
I was sitting in my car, waiting for someone to bring out something. The car only had just over 100 miles on it, and I'd only driven it 3 times (including this one) when suddenly there was a crack sound and a large (1'-1.5') curved crack appeared on the passenger side of the windshield. I called my dealership (the car was a week in my possession the day this happened) and told them what had happened. Immediately they began telling me that I must have been hit by a rock. I told them that I wasn't moving and they said to bring it in. When I arrived the woman who 'handles all their glass claims' told me that a rock had hit my windshield. I told her again that it had not, that I had not been moving, and that the only time the car was not being driven by me, was when the dealership had it, and that at no time that it was in my possession did a rock hit it. She insisted that the cracks don't just happen on their own and that a rock must have hit it.

- Aurora, CO, USA

problem #63

Jun 252020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 3,050 miles
Vehicle was stationary in a parking lot while at work. Noticed the crack immediately upon leaving work. The crack stems near passenger side bottom of windshield near wiper and goes toward center middle of windshield.

- Media, PA, USA

problem #62

Apr 242020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 3,400 miles
My windshield developed a lengthy crack for no apparent reason while it was parked at the airport for about a week in early April.

- Lincoln, NE, USA

problem #61

May 282020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 800 miles
I got into my car one morning and the wind shield was cracked at the mid/lower bottom. Glass shards were present in 1 location and over time the crack spread and another location w/ chips/shards was present.

- St Louis, MO, USA

problem #60

Apr 132020

Outback

  • 1,550 miles
We were driving on a highway and noticed that the window had a small crack without hearing a rock or pebble hit the window. Over next few days the crack went across the window. It seems like the windows are too prone to cracks and crack more easily than they should. Subaru replaced the windshield at no cost to us which we were happy about, but wanted to document that it seems they have more fragile windshields in case this happens again.

- Goldthwaite, TX, USA

problem #59

Jun 102020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 2,000 miles
While driving on expressway at 70 mph the passenger side windshield cracked about 5 inches from the side of the glass. When stationary the crack continued to expand.

- Westmont, IL, USA

problem #58

Jun 112020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 3,000 miles
Windshield cracked for no reason. The car only has 300 miles on it. The car was parked in my driveway.

- Long Beach, CA, USA

problem #57

Jun 062020

Outback

  • 5,600 miles
While parked in a stationary position in a private parking lot for approximately 12 hours overnight, the windshield cracked in an "S" shape from the left edge all the way to just a few inches short of the center.

- Philadelphia, PA, USA

problem #56

Jun 062020

Outback

  • 1,000 miles
Windshield cracked with no visible projectiles. Crack continued to grow after initial crack with us fearing the windshield was about to cave in on us.

- Cincinnati, OH, USA

problem #55

May 312020

Outback

  • 550 miles
Parked vehicle, windshield started cracking for no reason, checked security cameras, nothing explains it.

- Eastvale, CA, USA

problem #54

May 302020

Outback

  • 4,000 miles
Our windshield cracked for no apparent reason. The car is only a few months old and has 4000 miles on it. I noticed the crack while the car was in our garage. I seems to have happened while the car was stationary. This seems like a manufacturing defect. I need to contact the Subaru dealer to see what they say.

- Windsor, CO, USA

problem #53

Jan 202020

Outback 4-cyl

  • 3,500 miles
Windshield spontaneously cracked.

- Temecula, CA, USA

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