Recall Register

2020 Subaru Forester: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2020 Subaru Forester. NHTSA has 601 complaints on file for this model year.

This page cannot show if a recall applies to one vehicle. The NHTSA VIN lookup shows the unrepaired recalls of one vehicle.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2020 Subaru Forester. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 601 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

601 complaints, 816 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2020 Subaru Forester
  • All 2020 vehicles
2020 Subaru Forester: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2020 ForesterAll 2020 vehiclesForester, all yearsMentions
Visibility/Wiper308.840.2121.1252
Unknown or Other131.1115.393.5107
Electrical System125135.890.9102
Engine98134.994.180
Forward Collision Avoidance69.966.129.157
Visibility6011.623.649
Power Train39.2117.764.832
Lane Departure30.618.99.425
Vehicle Speed Control29.423.46124
Structure18.445.925.115

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 25.

Complaints that report a crash
26
Complaints that report a fire
9
Injuries in the complaints
16
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
19 Sep 2026

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2020 Subaru Forester, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2021, with 171 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2020 Subaru Forester: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/subaru/forester/2020/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Subaru Forester have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 43 recall campaigns for the Subaru Forester, model years 1998 to 2026. None of them names the 2020 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2020 Subaru Forester name most often?
Visibility/Wiper: 252 of 816 component mentions, or 308.8 per 1,000. For all 2020 vehicles the figure is 40.2 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2020 Subaru Forester open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.