# Service bulletin 16\-111\-18

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: 10130284
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-03\-13
- Manufacturer's number: 16\-111\-18
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-01\-30
- NHTSA component: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\)

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin announces reprogramming file availability to optimize the Transmission Control Module \(TCM\) used with the TR580 CVT. Contamination in a fluid pressure solenoid valve can cause a DTC P0841. The new logic will allow the solenoid to operate in a manner enabling it to discharge the contamination.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10130284-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10130284-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Transmission and driveline, Automatic transmission, Transmission control module

## Trouble codes named

P0841

## Vehicles listed

- 2018 SUBARU FORESTER
- 2018 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2018 SUBARU OUTBACK

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [16\-132\-20R](/bulletins/10207174.md), 2022-02-04, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION. This bulletin provides updated diagnostic procedures to follow and a brief questionnaire to complete when diagnosing an alleged Chain Slip condition on the TR580 and TR690 model CVT transmissions.
- [16\-111\-18R](/bulletins/10155222.md), 2019-03-25, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE \(TCM/PCM/TECM\); POWER TRAIN. This bulletin announces reprogramming file availability to optimize the Transmission Control Module \(TCM\) used with the TR580 CVT. Contamination in a fluid pressure solenoid valve can cause a DTC P0841. The new logic will allow the solenoid to operate in a manner enabling it to discharge the contamination.

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