A New Second Lawsuit Now Claims Subaru Forester And Outback Can Suddenly Accelerate

If my car suddenly accelerates I don't think I'll have time to contact someone about it. What do I do in the moment???

This is happening to our 2019 Subaru Forester. When braking it sometimes accelerates for a second.

Our outback does jolt forward, when using the accelerator normally.
Much like the ford fusion we had, there's nothing gentle about starting from a stop.
And i get it, if your car has a dry clutch, it goes a little less smooth, but they very easily could lower the fly wheel weight, and make it idle a bit leaner, so it won't jolt so much.

I bought a 2016 Certified Used Subaru Outback Limited in April of 2019. I have had ZERO issues with it of any kind— including sudden acceleration issues. I’m a proud Subaru owner and pleased as punch with my purchase!

It's real. After periods of hard driving in my then brand new 2016 Outback, the car would launch itself forward while sitting at a red light (think, autobahn style driving, coming off highway). Important to note, the problem was only repeatable by the dealer after I told them to floor it to 100 mph a few times & brake hard), & it only happened while sitting with car in gear & foot on brake immediately afterwards. CVT transmission was replaced under warranty and it never happened again (going on 3+ years now). Still love my Outback.

I found out that dome of these problems when my daughter drives is she wears 5 inch heels and the heel prevents the the foot from going all way down and then she had no braking

I think this is the issue or non-issue with eyesight ... When the car infront moves to next lane, it auto accelerate when you use cruise

Ford had this problem several folks died even happened to secret service......

Is it accelerating when they have the cruise control on? If I am following a car with my cruise on, it is keeping me back the required safe car length distance by slowing my speed. When I change lanes and no cars are in front of me, it speeds back up to my cruise control speed. It does obviously accelerate but that is whatbit is supposed to do. I love my 2015 Forrester.

My new 2020 Outback does this!! Scares me to death!!

Is there a fix??

Glad I got a Kia Spotaga!

"Defect" is probably caused by EyeSight. Have had 2 newer Subarus with no EyeSight and have had no problems. My only problem is that they sometimes don't accelerate, but I've actually discovered that it was my own error after taking them to the dealer for inspection.

My used 2011 Ford did this when I first got it. I heard the floor mat excuse, the "oh you must of hit the wrong pedal" excuse. But I put a short youtube video up, showing me moving the pedal with 1 finger while in park and the car staying revved up like it was on cruise control. From reading old forums and the failed Ford lawsuit I doubt I am the only one with this problem. I think people focus too much on the dbw throttle body vs. The sensor in the gas pedal itself. I took the gas pedal apart wiped the sensor off, now it works fine. Hopefully when it fails again I'm going slow. Also to note the sensor in the ford pedal kind of looked like a gas tank level sensor, which is also faulty in my car. I bet a lot of these cars when they get older they are going to have issues with acceleration. And it wasn't an obvious problem either, sometimes it would drive normal, other times I let off the gas it wouldn't stop accelerating or I would accelerate like a normal person and it would be like the car floored wide open by itself. Even more dangerous because my car doesn't have the brake override as far as I know. Sorry for the long post but I hope this helps someone and proves the non believers wrong.

We purchased a 2020 Subaru Forester in June. On September 14th I was pulling into a parking spot, foot on the brake and moving the gear shift lever into park. The car revved loudly, shot forward up over the curb, across the lawn, tore out about thirty feet of fencing, knocked down a small tree, lurched right over a flower bed, across the driveway, fishtailing the whole time and up over another curb where it suddenly stopped. Very frightening. The dealership says there is nothing wrong with the car and it must be something I did. We do not want the car back and would like a total refund and acknowledgement that the fault lies with the car. I don't know how likely that will be.

I’ve wrote the writer of this article. Don’t know how to get a hold of him. I would like anyone who has experienced this too, please get a hold of me in any way. These cars are dangerous! More light needs to be brought to this subject!

First,throttle cable the smart way to accerate!THE TCM is a risky way to GUARANTEE fuel /air mixture into your throttle body period, if it malfunctions hang on A stupid way to increase fuel ,You are rolling the dice, that's all!!

My 2018 Subaru Foresters brakes locked up in my. driveway.It did unlock the next day and I brought it to Subaru,who said the brake light switch was defective and it was replaced.Four months later the brakes locked up again.Subaru could not find anything wrong.I am very anxious about this situation and bringing the Forester to another Subaru dealer on Wednesday for a second opinion.Has anyone else had this problem?

Kenneth, did you figure out what happened?

Two weeks ago I had an awful accident with my 2014 Subaru Forester. I was driving slowly into my driveway when suddenly the car took off and veered to the left hitting the front side of the house causing extensive damage to the house. It was so scary and it happened so fast, no time to react. The car had to be written off because of too much damage. Neither Subaru nor my insurance company were interested in diagnosing the cause of the unintended acceleration. Thank God i did not suffer any injuries,