Recall · 23V755000
Subaru of America recalled 4 models over power train
95,830
Vehicles covered
4
Models
8
Model years
November 9, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:PARK/NEUTRAL START INTERLOCK SWITCH
- The defect
- Subaru of America, Inc. is recalling certain model year 2021 Crosstrek, 2022 Forester, 2021-2023 Legacy, and Outback vehicles. An insufficient weld may allow water to enter the inhibitor switch, causing it to fail.
- What it can cause
- An inoperative inhibitor switch may prevent the reverse lights from illuminating and the rearview camera image from displaying, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the inhibitor switch, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 8, 2024. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-800-782-2783. Subaru's number for this recall is WRQ-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.safercar.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 95,830 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 92% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Subaru vehicles have been recalled over the power train 13 times before this, most recently in September 2023 as 23V647000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 8 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,129 complaints with NHTSA, 723 of them before this campaign was filed. 54 of those name the power train, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2020, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 24V227000 (air bags), 23V647000 (power train), 22V712000 (visibility), 22V485000 (power train).
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 9, 2023 as campaign 23V755000. 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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