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Subaru Outback recalls: 21 US campaigns

NHTSA has 21 distinct campaigns against the Subaru OUTBACK; the Dutch register holds 12, across 1,011 registered here. Close enough to compare honestly.

21US safety campaigns
2016–2025
12Dutch campaigns
all years on file
1,011registered on
the Dutch road

American regulators have recorded 9 more distinct campaigns against the Subaru OUTBACK than the Dutch register holds.

What those campaigns were about

NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the Subaru OUTBACK, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.

Power train7
Air bags3
Service brakes, hydraulic2
Visibility2
Fuel system, gasoline2
Steering1
Electrical system1
Structure1

What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.

Check whether a Subaru OUTBACK recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country

US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 10 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.

What the OUTBACK record is mostly about

Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is power train, with 7 of the 21 American campaigns filed against it, followed by air bags (3) and service brakes, hydraulic (2). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of OUTBACK production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.

Check a Subaru OUTBACK

A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a Subaru OUTBACK against ours, or look your own car up by country.

How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.

Every campaign, as the authority wrote it

42 of these campaigns are listed below. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.

The rest of the Subaru record

Every Subaru campaign we hold, newest first, with the ones caught being rewritten marked.

Other Subaru models:

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Subaru Outback across the registers

This site holds seven national and European registers. Subaru Outback is named on 44 American notices, 55 Canadian, 14 British, 7 European and 33 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.

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Canadian

British

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Israeli

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Subaru Outback, 153 recall notices held in 5 registers, every version kept at CarsMultiverse

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