Recall · 23V076000
Subaru of America recalled 2 models over air bags
130
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
February 13, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- Subaru of America, Inc. (Subaru) is recalling certain 2004-2005 Impreza and WRX vehicles that received replacement front passenger air bag inflators under a previous recall. The replacement air bag inflators may have been installed incorrectly.
- What it can cause
- An incorrectly installed inflator may not properly inflate the passenger air bag, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the passenger inflator and if necessary, install a new inflator kit, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed April 14, 2023. Owners may contact Subaru's customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRF-23.
- 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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| SubaruImpreza | 2004 to 2005 | Not published here |
| SubaruWRX | 2004 to 2005 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 130 vehicles this is a small campaign: 67% 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 2004 to 2005, so the oldest vehicles on it were 19 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Subaru vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 24 times before this, most recently in January 2020 as 20V003000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 232 complaints with NHTSA, 228 of them before this campaign was filed. 29 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2004, 18 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 February 13, 2023 as campaign 23V076000. 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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