2016 Subaru Forester: ABS light or ABS activating

6 of the 416 complaints about the 2016 Subaru Forester describe ABS light or ABS activating.

owner complaints: 6
of this car's complaints: 1%
recalls: 0

Is there a fix? 9 service bulletins cover this area of the car. See below

ABS light or ABS activating by model year

2025
1
2020
1
2019
4
2017
1
2016
6
2015
20
2014
13
2012
1
2011
3
2010
6
2009
1
2007
2
2005
2
2004
2
2003
1
2001
3
1999
2
1998
3

What owners say

Filed Jun 16, 2023 · Electrical · WA

Battery drain due to CAN system. Has caused loss of power to functions of car resulting in vehicle dynamic control and airbags to be turned of in the middle of driving causing the ABS to become unusable in the case of an accident putting everyone in the car at risk of injury or death.

Filed Apr 23, 2019 · Brakes · 32,368 miles · DE

While getting ready to slow for a traffic light red signal the ABS light came on including the need to tow the vehicle. I got the vehicle to a parking lot about 1 mile away with the warning light still on and the vehicle slowed to about 2 miles per hour until I stopped. I shut off the vehicle and restarted it, the ABS lights did not come back on. The brakes performed normally. I drove home. Overnight the brake lights came on and I now have a dead battery. The brake light ignition switch was replaced on a recall last week about 150 miles ago.

Filed Mar 25, 2019 · Brakes, Driver assistance · CA

Brake lights may not illuminate recall (wue-90) when I'm parked or driving, multiple alerts show on my dashboard (eyesight off, ABS needs to be checked, vehicle dynamics control system needs to be checked, hill start assist system needs to be checked). Sometimes when I start my car and I'm about to change to drive, it won't let me switch out of park. I've also noticed that when the alerts go off, my brake lights don't always illuminate. This began happening in october 2018. I was then in an accident and after my car was repaired, the problem appeared to be fixed until the lights began to illuminate again at the beginning of march 2019. You can see the warning lights that have illuminated in the attachments.

Filed Sep 9, 2018 · Brakes · 30,589 miles · FL

Abs warning lights comes on then after I turn off the car it disappears. Bothe time it happened I was stopped then while accelerating the warning lights came on. The first time I was parked then when I backed up lights came on. The second time I was at a stop light with a slight incline when I started the lights came on. Then following time after the lights were off , I would restart car and the lights came on while driving

Filed May 29, 2018 · Acceleration, Brakes · 32,000 miles · VA

During periods of heavy rain, the vehicle appears to suffer major electrical issues. Since february of 2018, my vehicle has reported problems after a major storm with the eyesight camera system, ABS, hill assist, and fuel gauge. Fyi-eyesight includes the dynamic cruise control, crash avoidance, and lane monitoring system. The issue has been reported to our subaru dealer/maintenance team but they have not been able to discover the source of the issue.

Filed Apr 15, 2018 · Brakes · 43,189 miles · MA

This will be the second time I'm bringing my forester back to dealer do to the car with my foot on brake would not shift out of gear from park three lights showed up on the dash one being traction controll, second was the ABS light and last one was the car on hill light after a few minutes it shift out of park allowing me to drive but all the lights remain on and would not go over 40 the first time I took it back to the dealership it was in december 2017 they said it was the sensor behind the brake pedal, well little behold for the second time I'm bringing my forester back to dealership for the same issue as its only been 4 months. I bought the car of there lot brand new in may 2016 I only have 44,000 miles on it now.