Recall · 22V838000
Subaru of America recalled the SUBARU Forester over seat belts
16
Vehicles covered
1
Model
5
Model years
November 10, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS
- The defect
- Subaru of America, Inc. (Subaru) is recalling certain 2009-2013 Forester vehicles. The front seat belt assembly force-limiter may not operate correctly in the event of a crash.
- What it can cause
- The seat belt assembly may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect and replace the seat belt assembly, if necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed December 9, 2022. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRJ-22.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 16 vehicles this is a small campaign: 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2009 to 2013, so the oldest vehicles on it were 13 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Subaru vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 4 times before this, most recently in March 2020 as 20V189000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 5 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 769 complaints with NHTSA, 724 of them before this campaign was filed. 21 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in May 2008, 14 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 20V003000 (air bags), 20V002000 (air bags), 20V001000 (air bags).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Subaru of America, Inc. with NHTSA on November 10, 2022 as campaign 22V838000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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