Other wheel or tire problem on the 2016 Subaru Forester
1 crash 1 of the 12 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 6 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.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
There are 12 reports of other wheel or tire problem on the 2016 Subaru Forester, 6 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 20,813 miles | — | — |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
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 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
The base model steel wheel has a trough running around the inside of the wheel, two inches wide and one inch deep. Snow packs into the wheels, melts, and overnight the water that accumulates in the trough at the base of the wheel freezes solidly. It will not break loose. This ice block is the equivalent of a very large wheel balance weight. The car shakes violently at speeds over 45 MPH. This represents a significant immediate safety issue as well as a long term safety issue due to the likely damage to the alignment and front end of the vehicle. This happened twice within six weeks. The dealer's response was to take it to car wash. I wrote subaru of america and was told they will pass my experience on to new product development.
After about 2 inches of wet snow my wife was driving up a sloped street. She came to an area where she could see 2 cars waiting after a collision. She stopped. Another car stopper behind her. A police car passed the car parked behind my wife. The police car bumped the car parked behind my wife and parked. My wife tried to turn around. As she did her car lost traction and slid into the parked police car. There was no visual damage to my wife's car. I do not believe there was any damage to the police car. A report still had to be filed evidently because it was a police car. Later I checked the rating on the tires. Per the ratings given in tire rack these tires have been determined to be unsuitable for use on ice.
Apparent defective valves on yokohama geolander g91-f stock tires that came with the new vehicle. Car with only 7,626 miles, minimal tread wear, traveling on highway @ 65mph low tire pressure indicator comes on, and ~ 5 sec later the rear driver's side tire just completely shredding. Outside wall completely separating and tire valve nowhere to be found. Driven mini spare to local firestone tire center. Told to keep the tire as evidence, no puncture noted. Not one month later, low pressure light again while driving @ 65mph on another highway, this time the front passenger tire now with a leak. Checked and stopped multiple times to ensure only a slow leak. Able to be seen at a nearby costco tire center and diagnosed with a slow leak coming from the tire valve. 2 different stock yokohama tires both with very low miles, one with devastating blow out apparently occurring about the tire valve, the second tire with a slow defective valve leak. No punctures noted when examined at either tire center.
Also reported on the 2016 Subaru Forester
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other powertrain problem
Other speed control problem
Other body or interior problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 12 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 12 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.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2016 Subaru Forester?
Across 6 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 20,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2016 Subaru Forester?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
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