Owner complaint 11762582: SUBARU OUTBACK 2024

Owner complaint, unverified, from NHTSA Owner Complaints

Published by NHTSA: Sep 7, 2026
Manufacturer: Subaru of America, Inc.
NHTSA ID: 11762582
Applies to, as stated by NHTSA: SUBARU OUTBACK 2024
Component, as stated by NHTSA: UNKNOWN OR OTHER

Text of the owner complaint

On our long driveway, the car strongly accelerated with no gas pressure. I firmly pushed the brake and brought it to a stop. Upon lifting the brake again, it immediately accelerated entirely on its own with no use of the gas pedal. Heavy braking stopped it again. The same exact thing happened a few more times, the only way to prevent runaway acceleration was to forcefully apply the brakes. We ...

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Date of incident: 2026-09-06

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For the 2020 Subaru Outback

Premium

Ignored

Relevance of 15% is under one half, so the notice is ignored whatever the other figures say.

Vehicle relevance: 15%
Attention: 76%
Interrupt probability: 66%

Importance to this owner: 1.9 of 4, worth knowing
Vehicle area the notice is about: Transmission

This owner complaint does not appear to warrant attention for this vehicle. Owner complaints are unverified reports.

Decided by jev-1.13.0 in 121 ms from 1,612 input tokens. Jev returns these figures and nothing else. It gives no reasons, and none are written for it here. The figures describe how relevant the notice is, not the condition of any vehicle.

Checked by code against NHTSA's fields

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YesNHTSA names this make
YesNHTSA names this model (listed as OUTBACK)
NoNHTSA lists model year 2020 for this model

The same notice, every vehicle

Relevance	Attention	Interrupt	State
15%	76%	66%	Ignored
2%	41%	37%	Ignored
2%	43%	44%	Ignored
2%	30%	33%	Ignored
1%	39%	39%	Ignored
1%	27%	29%	Ignored
1%	36%	33%	Ignored
1%	36%	36%	Ignored
1%	38%	33%	Ignored
1%	38%	39%	Ignored
1%	28%	30%	Ignored
1%	32%	30%	Ignored
1%	27%	31%	Ignored
1%	33%	36%	Ignored
1%	40%	36%	Ignored
1%	27%	28%	Ignored

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