{"source":"NHTSA vehicle owner complaint","officialApiUrl":"https://api.nhtsa.gov/complaints/odinumber?odinumber=11514745","retrievedAt":"2026-11-05T02:36:02.216Z","count":1,"results":[{"odiNumber":11514745,"manufacturer":"Subaru of America, Inc.","crash":false,"fire":false,"numberOfInjuries":0,"numberOfDeaths":0,"dateOfIncident":"03/28/2023","dateComplaintFiled":"03/31/2023","vin":"4S4BSANC0K3","components":"ELECTRICAL SYSTEM","summary":"Starting December 2022, I've had a problem with my 2019 Subaru Outback - the battery goes dead when parked for as little as 24 hours.  I have had the battery replaced twice - first by  AAA in mid-December, 2022 and then by my local Subaru dealer in early February, 2023.  Each time, the car seems fine for 4-6 weeks, then the problem starts again.  Each time I take it to a Subaru dealer, they tell me they have found a different problem with the electrical system causing a \"parasitic draw\" on the battery while shut off.  In February, Koeppel Subaru in Queens performed an ECM programming update at the same time they installed a new battery and told me that would fix the problem.  But this past week, the problem resurfaced.  I then visited Premier Subaru in Branford, CT who examined the car and they have told me I have a faulty DCM component, which will cost me over $900 to replace despite me having the Subaru Gold + Extended warranty.  They keep telling they've found the cause of the problem (different each time) but it never seems to get fixed. Googling my car's problem, a lot of Subaru Outback owners are having dead battery problems and there seem to be a couple of class action lawsuits regarding getting Subaru to pay for replacement batteries. But those lawsuits seem to only  address the symptom (dead battery) of a bigger problem - there is a design flaw in the Subaru Outback that is causing this \"parasitic draw\" on the battery when the car is not in use.  It's a flaw that Subaru is not addressing by having a recall. It seems to me to be","products":[{"type":"Vehicle","productYear":"2019","productMake":"SUBARU","productModel":"OUTBACK","manufacturer":"Subaru of America, Inc."}]}]}