r/SubaruAscent

Several days ago I noticed my tire tread was looking a little low. I thought it was odd since I’ve only put 16,000 miles on my 2025 Ascent in the last ~15 months. I rotate the tires every 6,000 miles.

I took it in for an oil change a couple of days later and they called it out too, measured at 4/32. I could take them to 2/32 but I read at 4/32 you should start looking for replacements since hydroplaning risk drastically increases at 4/32. We have a big family road trip coming up so I decided to go ahead and replace them with CrossClimate 2’s from Costco, as we’re in CO with all of the seasons.

I looked online and apparently this is not uncommon on original tires, since they don’t have a treadwear warranty. I’ve read some folks get mileage close to mine, others get closer to 30,000-40,000.

As per the title I have a Subaru Ascent 2023. It’s my first car and I love it. Ive had it for about a year and a 1/2 and wish to start to mod it now but I have no idea what modifications to get for it. I’m not much of an off-roader but my dad wants to change the rims and raise it 2 inches. I’m open to body kit modifications or even anything that allows it drive more smoothly. I want it to be more of street type car over off road type but I do live in upstate NY so there does tend to be a lot of snow so I suppose off road mods wouldn’t be so bad. Thanks for any advice!

Which model year/trim would you consider to be a better buy? Ascent inventory is limited in my area and I can't afford to buy new so I'm looking at CPO.

1. CPO 2024 SubaruAscent Onyx Edition 7-Passenger with 38,461 miles. Online Dealer Price: $32,841 with doc fee, electron fee, and private tag.

2: CPO 2023 SubaruAscent Onyx Edition 7-Passenger - *Was listed as an Onyx Limited yesterday and now it just says Onyx, which raises a brow. If this is an Onyx Limited, I'm interested. It has 39,524 miles for $32,841 online, including doc fee, electronic fee, and private tag.

I'm wanting to be at 35K OTD. I test drove an Onyx Limited and appreciated the 360 camera, but that car had a lot of cosmetic dings inside and out, so that specific car was a not for us.

The miles are making me iffy on these. I'm comfortable purchasing CPO cars with 33K or less miles. These Ascents are more lived in. And its my understanding that I'm out the 3year/36K mile bumper to bumper warranty, which is a bummer about the miles.

Are these good contenders? Or should I hold out for something better to maybe come along with no guarantee.

Have owned our 2022 Ascent Limited since new with very few problems, until yesterday. Drove fine the day before, but yesterday morning it was completely dead, battery was at 6 volts. Tried to charge it (still connected to car), but no good. Assumed it was a battery at the end of its life, so went to Advanced and got the best they had (Duralast AGM). Popped it in and no problems. Drove it around a bit too.

This morning and the new battery is dead, 6 volts. Disconnected it and have it on the charger now, but not sure what to do next. It’s Sunday so dealer is closed, but they show online as booked 2 weeks out. I’ll call them in the morning.

Anyone have a problem like this? I’ve read a lot about the parasitic drain issues, but don’t see how that could drain a healthy battery overnight. Maybe the litigate issue? But thought that was solved before 2022 MY.

Thoughts??

I currently have a Forrester and we do enjoy it but it’s a 2017 and we need to take a car as we expect our next child to be born shortly. I know what the Forrester the key things to ask for were crossbars and all weather floor mats.

What can I ask the dealer to throw in to make the deal better? Would this include crossbars and all weather? Should I ask them for tint?

It’s been a couple years and I definitely have pregnancy brain so I’m having trouble sorting through the online post and I really appreciate when you can give me any feedback related to this. 28782 with service fee, tag, and registration. It has 58799 miles. It’s “Subaru certified”.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the opinions. I'm no longer seeing this 2023 Ascent Onyx with 19K as the dealer was yanking my chain about the OTD price and just being overall shady.
I'm actually going to go see a CPO 2023 Ascent Limited tomorrow with 23K miles at a dealership in town. It checks all the boxes including OTD price in the possible 34K range, if they can actually honor that, just verbal over the phone on that now. I just don't like that the interior color is ivory vs gray or black. I have a kid and a dog, and that feels very delicate. But the limited trim looks nice and I like the low mileage. If the interior color were dark, I'd be more sold on walking away with the car tomorrow. But that interior color worries me...

Does this sound like a decent deal?

TY ALL!

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Hi all, I'm new to Subaru but like the features of the Ascent.
I test drove one today and enjoyed it.

I'm seeing a CPO 2023 Subaru Ascent Onyx Edition with 19K miles and the sales person assured me they could meet me at a $35K OTD price if I came in this weekend, it at a dealership an hour away so I'm planning to go there in a couple of days.
The car I test drove was the same model/trim/year but with 39K miles. Since the 19K mile car has considerably less mileage, I'm feeling like jumping into that if the sales person can really honor their OTD price. Does this sound like a good deal? I live in a HCOL area.

Additionally, please tell me what you love about your Ascents and what you don't love. For those of you with kids and a large dog, how comfortably do you fit? We are a family of three, one small child, one large dog.
We are planning to fit my child in their forward facing convertible car sear in one of the captain seats, and reserving the third row for our dog. If we have another baby they can hopefully sit rear facing in the other captain seat.
It looked like that could work from what we saw today, but wanted to confirm with families who are making it work currently. We are TALL but my husband comfortablly sat in the middle captain seats, and did fit in the third row although his knees were a bit squished. However, we plan to keep the third row reserved for our dog and/or other kids.

I appreciate all answers and thank you!

Have seen some similar posts around this issue, but the solutions have been varied from what I have read online: yesterday here in the northeastern U.S. it was really hot. I have two kids - an infant and a toddler.

I unlocked the driver side door with the fob unlock button and then I think opened the driver side door and pressed the unlock button on the inside of the door (the door handle unlock on the driver side hasn’t been working, so we have been using the button inside the door to unlock the rest of the car).

I put the infant into the car behind the driver seat and shut the rear passenger door. It was hot, so I wanted to get the AC going and so popped into the drivers seat and started the car with the AC on full blast. I then shut the driver side door and went around to the other side rear passenger door to get the toddler in. At this point I discovered that while the car had been fully open, it was now fully locked. Front passenger door also locked, along with the doors on the other side of the car.

Pushing the unlock button on the key fob did nothing. All doors locked with infant inside the car (at least the AC was on …). Still slightly panicked that the infant was locked in the car and the fob buttons seemed not to be working.

I finally got the key out of the fob and manually used it in the driver side door. But even that didn’t seem to immediately unlock it (I may have turned the key to the left first and then to the right which possibly was what caused it to work?).

Is the car supposed to function this way (some “security” feature)? Is the only way to override this issue is by using the physical key?

Please let me know if this is an issue with my vehicle or if I can otherwise disable this so that it doesn’t happen again! Thanks!

My wife and I have both owned Subarus (forester and legacy) and we are expecting our second child. Trips already get tight in the car, especially when we bring our dog. We like Subaru so naturally, the Ascent is intriguing. However, based on my research, the ascent ranks in the middle to lower end of the pack in the mid size 3 row SUV category. With Highlanders and Pilots, etc. to choose from, why would someone choose an Ascent?

Has anyone else had their cigarette lighter ports stop working? Is it a blown fuse? Everything else works like normal even the USB plugs

I am super pissed. My 2019 ascent started showing the TPMS indicator for like 2 months. We checked the car tire pressure etc and all came out good.

We had a regular service scheduled and mentioned this to them. They checked tire pressure and sensors and said all looks good and they would need to run a diagnostic test. We did that and they said the sensors need to be replaced. This cost us $1200 whoch includes the $200 for diagnostic test as well.

We take teh car and even before we got home the darn indicator is back. We went back again a second time and gave them te car on another day. This time they didnt take any money bit said its fixed. Again the same behavior after we picked the car.

They asked us to come back again today and now they claim that ​the TPMS/keyless control module needs replacement and would cost $2000. I am fuming !!!!

I dont want to spend another dime on this but what are my options ? Can I get the original 1k I spent back ?

This is the message they sent :

We have determined that the TPMS/Keyless Control Module is not saving data correctly, which is causing the TPMS warning light to come on and off intermittently.

At this time, we recommend replacing the TPMS/Keyless Control Module as the next step in the diagnostic process. Once the module has been replaced, we can continue diagnosing the system to determine if any additional issues are present. Replacing the module is necessary before we can accurately verify whether there are any further complications. There were also some additional recommended services along withy our inspection

This may be a dumb question so sorry in advance. However, this is my first Subaru and first new car.
I have a 2025 ascent.. it needs rotors and brakes. Can my husband do this? Or does the shop need to for the warranty? I never had a car with a warranty so I’m unsure what can and can’t be done at home that won’t void it ☹️