# Service bulletin 12\-203\-16

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10111093
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-08\-14
- Manufacturer's number: 12\-203\-16
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-07\-14
- NHTSA component: SEAT BELTS

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame. A design change was made to the wave washer used at the attachment point to eliminate the sound. The sound can be heard when moving the buckle assembly side to side.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10111093-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10111093-0001.pdf)

The document is the manufacturer's. This site does not hold it.

## Components

Seat belts

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 to 2016 SUBARU IMPREZA
- 2015 to 2016 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2015 to 2016 SUBARU OUTBACK
- 2012 SUBARU XV CROSSTREK

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10213193.md), 2022-06-03, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.
- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10201027.md), 2021-09-03, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS; SEATS. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.
- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10186363.md), 2021-02-01, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS; SEATS. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.
- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10185083.md), 2021-01-05, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; EQUIPMENT. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.
- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10185082.md), 2021-01-05, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS; SEATS; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY; EQUIPMENT. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.
- [12\-203\-16R](/bulletins/10175988.md), 2020-06-02, Service bulletin: SEAT BELTS; EQUIPMENT. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a squeaking sound originating from where the front seat belt buckle assembly attaches to the seat frame.

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