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Steering · 1 owner report

Other steering problem on the 2018 Subaru Impreza

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 $350–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 29th

When other steering problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other steering problem on the 2018 Subaru Impreza. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 29th 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 $350–$2,400 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 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 25,000 miles, and latest on the 2013 at 75,000 miles.

By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 6; the 2018 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. 1997 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1999 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 2000 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  4. 2002 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 91k
  5. 2004 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  6. 2005 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 63k
  7. 2007 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  8. 2012 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 74k
  9. 2013 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 77k
  10. 2015 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 33k
  11. 2016 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 26k
  12. 2017 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 3k
  13. 2018 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  14. 2019 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 15
  15. 2020 Subaru Impreza other steering problem
    no odometer readings given
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  16. 2021 Subaru Impreza other steering problem 700
  17. 2022 Subaru Impreza other steering 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 2018 Subaru Impreza

Other lighting problem

51 reports median 21k

Other visibility problem

26 reports median 23k

Windshield cracking

16 reports median 25k

Other engine problem

7 reports median 26k

Other electrical problem

5 reports median 14k

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