NHTSA Safety Recalls
2000 Subaru Legacy Recalls
The 2000 Subaru Legacy has 4 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on April 22, 2003.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2000 Subaru Legacy. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 4
- Owner complaints
- 94
- Crashes reported
- 8
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
2 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2000 Subaru Legacy, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
4 recalls on the 2000 Subaru Legacy
Suspension: rear
- Campaign
- 03V153000
- Reported
- April 22, 2003
- Vehicles affected
- up to 170,000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2003 Legacy, 1 other model
Steering: linkages: tie rod assembly
- Campaign
- 00V091000
- Reported
- March 24, 2000
- Vehicles affected
- up to 129
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Subaru Legacy
Power train: driveline: center support bearing
- Campaign
- 99V249000
- Reported
- September 17, 1999
- Vehicles affected
- up to 13
- Same campaign
- only the 2000 Subaru Legacy
Fuel system, gasoline: delivery: fuel pump
- Campaign
- 13E065000
- Risk NHTSA names
- fire
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2004 Legacy, 2 other models
2000 Subaru Legacy complaints by year
NHTSA has received 94 owner complaints about the 2000 Subaru Legacy, the newest on August 22, 2019. Of these, 8 describe a crash (9%) and 2 a fire; owners reported 3 injuries.
In complaints about the 2000 Subaru Legacy, the component group named most often is the tires (18%), followed by the engine and engine cooling (17%) and the power train (15%).
1 of the 2000 Subaru Legacy's 4 recalls also concerns the power train.
Where 2000 Subaru Legacy owners gave the mileage (36 complaints), the median was 90,130 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Tires17
- Engine And Engine Cooling16
- Power Train14
- Suspension13
- Vehicle Speed Control10
- Structure8
Complaints received, by year
| 1999 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 20 | |
| 2001 | 15 | |
| 2002 | 8 | |
| 2003 | 7 | |
| 2004 | 9 | |
| 2005 | 6 | |
| 2006 | 2 | |
| 2007 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 4 | |
| 2009 | 3 | |
| 2011 | 3 | |
| 2012 | 3 | |
| 2013 | 6 | |
| 2014 | 1 | |
| 2016 | 2 | |
| 2017 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2000 Subaru Legacy peaked in 2000, when NHTSA received 20. 55% arrived between 1999 and 2003, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2000 vehicles, the 2000 Subaru Legacy drew 1.1× the complaints of the median Subaru Legacy year in the same window: 10th highest of the 21 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
The 94 complaints about the 2000 Subaru Legacy are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Subaru Legacy by model year
Other 2000 Subaru models
Newest record on this page: August 22, 2019. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted