Recall Register

Subaru SVX: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the Subaru SVX, model years 1990 to 1997. NHTSA has 291 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 7 model years have a page on this register.

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.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

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

  1. 19900
  2. 19920
  3. 19930
  4. 19940
  5. 19950
  6. 19960
  7. 19970
Subaru SVX: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1997 Subaru SVX NHTSA page025%
1996 Subaru SVX NHTSA page037%
1995 Subaru SVX NHTSA page02048%
1994 Subaru SVX02867%
1993 Subaru SVX NHTSA page0410%
1992 Subaru SVX0231556%
1990 Subaru SVX NHTSA page037%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

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

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.

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

Components in the complaints

373 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.

Subaru SVX: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train739.9276
Suspension64.324
Service Brakes, Hydraulic32.212
Vehicle Speed Control26.810
Electrical System24.19
Unknown or Other21.48
Air Bags16.16
Wheels16.16
Steering16.16
Engine and Engine Cooling13.45

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Subaru SVX, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the Subaru SVX, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 87 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Subaru: all 31 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Subaru SVX: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/subaru/svx/. 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

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Subaru SVX model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which Subaru SVX model year has the most complaints?
The 1992 model year, with 231 of the 291 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Subaru SVX name?
Power Train: 739.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 64.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 32.2 per 1,000 component mentions.