NHTSA Safety Recalls
2002 Subaru Forester Recalls
The 2002 Subaru Forester has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file, the newest reported on October 30, 2002.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2002 Subaru Forester. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 88
- Crashes reported
- 21
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2002 Subaru Forester, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2002 Subaru Forester
Power train: automatic transmission
- Campaign
- 02V282000
- Reported
- October 30, 2002
- Vehicles affected
- up to 172,564
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2003 Forester, 4 other models
2002 Subaru Forester complaints by year
NHTSA has received 88 owner complaints about the 2002 Subaru Forester, the newest on October 26, 2019. Of these, 21 describe a crash (24%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 8 injuries.
In complaints about the 2002 Subaru Forester, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (26%), followed by the power train (18%) and the engine and engine cooling (16%).
The 2002 Subaru Forester's only recall also concerns the power train.
Where 2002 Subaru Forester owners gave the mileage (50 complaints), the median was 84,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control23
- Power Train16
- Engine And Engine Cooling14
- Air Bags10
- Service Brakes, Hydraulic9
- Suspension9
Complaints received, by year
| 2001 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 18 | |
| 2003 | 11 | |
| 2004 | 10 | |
| 2005 | 6 | |
| 2006 | 5 | |
| 2007 | 4 | |
| 2008 | 1 | |
| 2009 | 4 | |
| 2010 | 5 | |
| 2011 | 3 | |
| 2012 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 4 | |
| 2015 | 4 | |
| 2017 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 3 |
Complaints about the 2002 Subaru Forester peaked in 2002, when NHTSA received 18. 53% arrived between 2001 and 2005, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2002 vehicles, the 2002 Subaru Forester drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Subaru Forester year in the same window: 16th highest of the 23 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 5/5
- Rollover: 3/5
The 88 complaints about the 2002 Subaru Forester are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Subaru Forester by model year
Other 2002 Subaru models
Newest record on this page: October 26, 2019. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted