1997 Subaru Legacy defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 1997 Subaru Legacy. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  Preliminary 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…