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2009 SUBARU WRX STI — Complaint #1170719

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:PEDAL/HAND LEVER(MOTORCYCLE) filed March 31, 2015

NHTSA complaint #1170719 (ODI reference 10702894) concerns a 2009 SUBARU WRX STI and was filed on March 31, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 5, 2014. The vehicle had 75,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Minnesota based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle), one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same SUBARU WRX STI cohort independently describe similar power train:clutch assembly:pedal/hand lever(motorcycle) failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2009 SUBARU WRX STI shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2009 SUBARU WRX STI
Component
POWER TRAIN:CLUTCH ASSEMBLY:PEDAL/HAND LEVER(MOTORCYCLE)
State
Minnesota
Mileage
75,000 mi

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2009 SUBARU WRX STI. WHILE DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, AN ABNORMAL NOISE EMITTED FROM THE BRAKE AND CLUTCH PEDALS. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE BRAKE AND CLUTCH PEDALS MOVED INDEPENDENTLY. THE FAILURE RECURRED CONTINUOUSLY. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 75,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1170719
ODI Number 10702894
Date Filed March 31, 2015
Failure Date November 5, 2014
VIN JF1GE766X9G

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.