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Other electrical problem on the 2000 Subaru Forester

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 22nd

When other electrical problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other electrical problem on the 2000 Subaru Forester. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 22nd most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $250–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 2,000 miles, and latest on the 2012 at 100,000 miles.

By volume the 2019 carries the most reports, with 89; the 2000 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1998 Subaru Forester other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1999 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 175k
  3. 2000 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  4. 2003 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 220k
  5. 2004 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 25k
  6. 2005 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 24k
  7. 2006 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 54k
  8. 2007 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 86k
  9. 2008 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 73k
  10. 2009 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 68k
  11. 2010 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 66k
  12. 2011 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 45k
  13. 2012 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 101k
  14. 2013 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 10k
  15. 2014 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 64k
  16. 2015 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 36k
  17. 2016 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 30k
  18. 2017 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 42k
  19. 2018 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 9k
  20. 2019 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 6k
  21. 2020 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 2k
  22. 2021 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 7k
  23. 2022 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 9k
  24. 2023 Subaru Forester other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2024 Subaru Forester other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2025 Subaru Forester other electrical problem 14k
  27. 2026 Subaru Forester other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2000 Subaru Forester

Other powertrain problem

18 reports median 74k

Engine sensor failure

14 reports median 7k

Wheel bearing or hub failure

12 reports median 59k

Head gasket failure

7 reports median 125k

Other suspension problem

6 reports median 50k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed