1995 Subaru Legacy defect investigations
Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1995 Subaru Legacy. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.
- ELECTRICAL SYSTEMPreliminary Evaluation PE99067 · opened Nov 1, 1999 · closed May 31, 2000 · led to recall 00I002000
Odi has received 5,820 complaints concerning a variety of electrical system failures that result in the vehicle stalling.our complaint analysis indicates that the majority of these compaints are caused by alternator failure.in some instances, the vehicle is completely dead and will not restart.based on our investigatio…
- OVERSENSITIVE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENTEngineering Analysis EA97010 · opened Apr 30, 1997 · closed Dec 23, 1998 · led to recall 98V315000
In its letter dated december 21, 1998, subaru stated that the vehicles identified above will be recalled.subaru dealers will remove the front towing/tie-down hooks.refer to nhtsa recall no. 98v-315 for details.
- OVERSENSITIVE AIR BAG DEPLOYMENTPreliminary Evaluation PE96075 · opened Dec 18, 1996 · closed Apr 30, 1997
Odi has reviewed 33 complaints of oversensitive' air bag deployment (I.e., any non-crash deployment) received by odi and subaru involving model year 1995 subaru impreza & legacy vehicles and all other impreza & legacy vehicles equipped with air bag systems identical or similar to those in the 1995 impreza & legacy; the…