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Other wheel or tire problem on the 2000 Subaru Forester

1 crash 1 of the 6 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

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 6
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $200–$1,500
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 6th

When other wheel or tire problem gets reported

There are 6 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2000 Subaru Forester. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 6th 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

Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 20 miles, and latest on the 2003 at 90,000 miles.

By volume the 2016 carries the most reports, with 12; 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 wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  2. 1999 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 41k
  3. 2000 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 2001 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 56k
  5. 2002 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  6. 2003 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 90k
  7. 2004 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 12k
  8. 2006 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 13k
  9. 2007 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 5k
  10. 2008 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 70k
  11. 2009 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 36k
  12. 2010 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  13. 2012 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 10k
  14. 2014 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 64k
  15. 2015 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 44k
  16. 2016 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 21k
  17. 2017 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 42k
  18. 2018 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 20k
  19. 2019 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 5k
  20. 2020 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem 20
  21. 2021 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2022 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2023 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2024 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2025 Subaru Forester other wheel or tire problem
    no odometer readings given
    —

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

Fuel leak or fuel odor

3 reports median 101k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 6 reports 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 6 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