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Lane departurePart report

2019 Subaru Forester Lane departure Problems

Complaints
16about this part
Share
2%of 834 total for the year
Median mileage
14,000miles
Trend
RisingComplaints filed in the last 3 full calendar years are at least 25% higher than in the 3 years before.

NHTSA recorded 16 complaints about the lane departure of the 2019 Subaru Forester, 2% of the 834 complaints for this model year. Where a mileage was given, the median is 14,000 miles. 1 of these say a crash was involved and 1 a fire, according to the filers.

Example complaints

Selected from NHTSA records; personal details are removed. They are consumer reports, not findings.

“I noticed a serious safety issue with Subaru's lane keep assist safety feature: when driving on a busy highway over an area where the dotted line had been painted over with dark paint (by road workers to cover it up for a new lane to be painted) lane keep assist registered it as a line that still exists and forcefully steered me into the lane on my left. To avoid hitting the car in that lane, I forcefully turned to the wheel in the opposite direction. …”

NHTSA complaint #11385178, filed 2020-12, 10,000 miles

“I am concerned as my car was safely parked, once I started it and it said eyesight off, flashing S symbol, the heat thermo Stat changes back and forth from hot and cold, car is not warming up and check engine light came on. I am very concerned as it is the winter, and I have my baby in the car. Please advise. This seems very unusual and never happened before. The vehicle have around 23K miles.”

NHTSA complaint #11564786, filed 2024-01

“There are two problems: 1 after the car turns off after stopping to save fuel it will fail to restart automatically and must be put into park to manually restart; 2 the car will try to change lanes indicating that the safety related lane change is malfunctioning. I have to fight the car to maintain my lane.”

NHTSA complaint #11554270, filed 2023-11

“I recently bought this vehicle (used) with ~1900 miles. After 1.5 months of owning the vehicle, I suddenly had several warning lights as well as systems disabled within the vehicle. The first time this occurred I was about 2 hours into a drive, and suddenly my eyesight disabled, check engine light came on, cruise control disabled, lane departure disabled, collision warning and automatic braking disabled. After pulling over to inspect, I also realized my trunk would no longer open. …”

NHTSA complaint #11478546, filed 2022-08

“All of a sudden, the eyesight and collision prevention stopped working, the check engine light came on, the blue light thermostat indicator came on. We had no heat. The flashing S (sportsmode indicator) came on. We were driving on the highway and still over an hour from home. It was snowing, we could not adequately clear the windshield of fog so our visibility was severely compromised. We lost all Eye Sight capability which meant that we were vulnerable if there was ever a crash or an obstruction in the roadway.”

NHTSA complaint #11562800, filed 2023-12

Related service bulletins

Lane departure: other model years

YearComplaintsShare of year
202613%
202522%
202413%
202357%
202222%
202184%
2020224%
2019162%
201871%
201751%
201610%
201520%
201410%

Other parts of the 2019 Subaru Forester

Visibility (wipers, defrost, mirrors)
406 complaints
Other or unknown
145 complaints
Electrical system
134 complaints
Engine
106 complaints
Forward collision avoidance
43 complaints
Transmission and drivetrain
38 complaints
Vehicle speed control
27 complaints
Brakes
26 complaints
Body and structure
25 complaints
Fuel system
22 complaints
Air bags
17 complaints
Steering
14 complaints

← All problems reported for the 2019 Subaru Forester

About this data. Data from NHTSA (ODI) complaints, recalls, TSBs and investigations, updated Oct 31, 2026. Complaints are unverified consumer reports and may be duplicated or inaccurate.

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