In-car Electronics
CD or DVD players, radio, speakers, GPS, communication system (e.g., OnStar), display screen freezes or goes blank, phone pairing (e.g. Bluetooth), voice control commands, steering wheel controls, portable music device interface (e.g., iPod/MP3 player), backup or other camera/sensors.
What Owners Say
"Shuts Down Often.Has to be paired."
Anonymous, VT (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0i 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Song title does not match song being played"
Anonymous, MI (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Song info on screen displays correctly for the first song but doesn't update for subsequent songs. Voice dialing commands don't recognize simple names. Switching between phones doesn't work at all. We need to turn the car off, turn the bluetooth off on the phone, turn on the bluetooth on the other phone, and restart the car. Subaru says to use the 3.5mm aux port to fix it. Thay've replaced the head unit twice, all three units had the same issues"
Matthew F., MO (2016 Subaru Impreza Premium 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Started when car was about 2 1/2 years old. The map always worked, but the search for location sometimes could not find an existing Street. Sometimes could not be programmed at all. Then started to work again. The dealership was not helpful."
Anonymous, (2016 Subaru Impreza Premium 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"The system is supposed to notify me when I receive a new SMS and read it to me. This works intermittently. When it does not work I will get a message asking me if I want to set up messaging or one that says that it is unable to retrieve message. The dealer has been unable to resolve this issue. It is a minor inconvenience in the big scheme of things so I have given up trying to resolve it. When it works it's great."
Anonymous, WI (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"In past phone and car have stopped connecting. That was fixed with a trip to dealer. More recently after getting a new phone, phone and car connect but then disconnect mid call--call is still going but I can't take it hands free--very dangerous when caller still thinks we're talking but I can't hear without holding phone to ear."
Anonymous, IL (2016 Subaru Impreza Premium 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"This is a weakness from this car. We suspect the whole system will have to be replaced."
Michel L., QC (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"It will not let me store phone numbers"
Anonymous, MT (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"my old flip phone paired fine. My new Kyocera smartphone will not pair."
Anonymous, CA (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0i 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Everytime i took car for service i needed to have phone paired with car, worked foe a few weeks then dropped off. It has now been working for a few months so may be fixed"
Anonymous, (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Phone calls don't come in on car Bluetooth system. Repaired on our own but still reoccurring."
Anonymous, QC (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Same as Outback problem."
Anonymous, VT (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0i 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"The dealer would get my iPhone to work, but the sound broke up the same day. Even the dealer spent time getting it working, and only fairly well. Other times it took more time to get it paired than it was worth to me. Hands free phones should be high priority for safety."
Richard R., AK (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"My wireless phone did pair with the car, but the voice quality was so bad that it was unusable."
Tony P., CA (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Every time the car starts it takes 60 seconds to connect. Switching between paired phones on the fly doesn't work 30% of the time. You need to turn the car off, change which phone has bluetooth turned on, then turn the car back on"
Matthew F., MO (2016 Subaru Impreza Premium 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"The phone get unpaired frequently despite the fact the my phone is continually on bluetooth. Every six weeks or so I have to re-pair the phone to the car"
Mark R., TX (2016 Subaru Impreza 2.0i 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"Most times when u turn on the car with the satellite radio on it defaults to the ad channel on 1. Poor eq."
Anonymous, ON (2016 Subaru Impreza Limited 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"The Sirius satellite radio stopped working. Subaru replaced the radio and that fixed the problem. No other problems with the radio"
Curtis W., TX (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)"the microphone located close to the rear view miror did not fonction properly and had to be replaced"
Anonymous, QC (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)
"The display screen freezes up periodically, not allowing me to change the audio source from radio to phone, etc, not allowing me to turn it off, not allowing me to change the radio station. It doesn't respond to any touch commands on the display screen or phone. In addition, the text message readout worked the first year, but has now stopped working for no apparent reason. Update issue?? I have an iPhone 7 Plus that connects to the dashboard electronics via bluetooth."
Anonymous, NC (2016 Subaru Impreza Sport 2.0-L 4 Cyl)