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Electrical · 3 owner reports

Other electrical problem on the 2021 Subaru Legacy

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 3
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.2 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 5th

When other electrical problem gets reported

There are 3 reports of other electrical problem on the 2021 Subaru Legacy. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 5th 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 900 miles, and latest on the 2000 at 155,000 miles.

By volume the 2016 carries the most reports, with 27; the 2021 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. 1996 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1998 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
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  4. 1999 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  5. 2000 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 154k
  6. 2002 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 252k
  7. 2003 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 100k
  8. 2005 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 92k
  9. 2006 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 100k
  10. 2007 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 125k
  11. 2008 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 99k
  12. 2009 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 120k
  13. 2010 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 60k
  14. 2011 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 73k
  15. 2012 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 106k
  16. 2013 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 98k
  17. 2014 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 87k
  18. 2015 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 10k
  19. 2016 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 50k
  20. 2017 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 61k
  21. 2018 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 15k
  22. 2019 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 900
  23. 2020 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 15k
  24. 2021 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  25. 2022 Subaru Legacy other electrical problem 8k
  26. 2024 Subaru Legacy 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 2021 Subaru Legacy

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 3 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 3 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