Extended stopping distances

An NHTSA Engineering Analysis into Subaru vehicles. Closed 12 July 2005.

Investigation
EA03024
Type
Engineering Analysis
Opened
19 November 2003
Closed
12 July 2005

What NHTSA investigated

During the ea, odi and vrtc performed the following ACTIVITIES:1.CONDUCTED a mail survey of 246 subject vehicle owners todetermine the roadway surface that caused owners' CONCERN;2.INTERVIEWED complaining OWNERS;3.CONDUCTED field inspections of seven (7) complaint VEHICLES;4.INSTRUMENTED testing at vrtc of complaint and peer VEHICLES;5.REVIEWED subaru's response to our information REQUEST;6.MET with subaru for technical review of testingas a result of the work conducted by vrtc and odi during this investigaiton, a consistent or chronic pattern of poor brake performance has not been identified.vrtc conducted over 11,500 brake tests.they did not observe any long-duration, low deceleration events (some owners reported delays of 4 to 10 seconds) in the test vehicles.see odi's closing report and vrtc's test report for full details

Vehicles covered

MakeModelModel years
SubaruWRX2002–2003

Source

From NHTSA’s investigation file, rebuilt daily. To report a problem with your own vehicle, go to nhtsa.gov/report-a-safety-problem. All open investigations.