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2023 Subaru Impreza Problems & Owner Complaints
Age-normalised, this year draws ~1.0 complaints per year on the road — ranking 15 of 15 Subaru Impreza years we track (1 = most complaints per year).
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What owners report
Tires is the most-reported problem area on the 2023 Subaru Impreza, cited in 2 of 4 filed complaints (50%).
Electrical System is next (1 complaints, 25%), followed by Engine (1), Fuel/Propulsion System (1).
No complaint for this vehicle reports a crash, fire, injury or death.
Complaints by vehicle system
Owner complaints filed with the U.S. NHTSA for the 2023 Subaru Impreza, grouped by the vehicle system each cites. A single complaint can name more than one system, so the group totals can add up to more than 4.
Tires 2
“The contact owns a 2023 Subaru Impreza equipped with Sailun Tires, Tire Line: Black Hawk Street UHP, Tire Size: 225/40R18, DOT Number: (N/A). The contact had purchased the tires from Amazon. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked, the contact became aware of a bubble on the outside of the rear passenger's side tire in December 2025. The vehicle was taken to Mavis Tire, and the tire was replaced. In addition, the contact recently noticed a bubble on the outside of the front driver's side tire. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure, and a complaint was filed; however, the…”
NHTSA complaint #11715514, 2025
“The original equipment (OE) tires (Size: 225/40R18) on a 2023 vehicle exhibited severe, deep concentric cracking on the outer sidewalls and near the bead/rim line of all four tires at approximately 30,000 miles. The safety of the driver and passengers was put at extreme risk as the structural integrity of the tires was compromised, posing an imminent threat of catastrophic high-speed blowouts on the expressway. The failure was confirmed and reproduced by two separate professional facilities: the original vehicle dealership and an authorized tire manufacturer dealer. Both independent inspectio…”
NHTSA complaint #11708071, 2025
Electrical System 1
“Car does not accelerate from a full stop. Hesitates to react to gas pedal for a few seconds”
NHTSA complaint #11522354, 2023
Engine 1
“Car does not accelerate from a full stop. Hesitates to react to gas pedal for a few seconds”
NHTSA complaint #11522354, 2023
Fuel/Propulsion System 1
“Car does not accelerate from a full stop. Hesitates to react to gas pedal for a few seconds”
NHTSA complaint #11522354, 2023
Unknown Or Other 1
“This Subaru model and most other models I have researched is having connections issues with the infotainment systems, connecting and keeping a connection with Android auto and apple. It's not like just a small annoyance, this is causing me big issues when it does connect to Android auto then it is intermittent causing the driver to take their attention off of the road to unplug replug in the phone then stopping and turning off the car/ restarting phone to try fixing this issue, this have become very distracting iv almost been in multiple accidents trying to get my cars systems to work properly…”
NHTSA complaint #11560504, 2023
How we read this (methodology)
How to read this: raw complaint totals are not a clean reliability score — a model year with more cars sold, or simply more years on the road, accumulates more complaints regardless of how good it is. So this page leans on two signals that are not distorted by sales volume: the share of complaints falling on each vehicle system (the breakdown above) and NHTSA's own crash / fire / injury / death flags. When we compare model years of the same model, we normalise by years on the road (complaints ÷ vehicle age) rather than comparing raw totals. Age-normalised, the 2023 Subaru Impreza draws about 1.0 complaints per year on the road, ranking 15 of 15 among the Subaru Impreza model years we have ingested (1 = most complaints per year on road).
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