# Service bulletin 09\-54\-12R

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: 10131643
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-04\-02
- Manufacturer's number: 09\-54\-12R
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-09\-27
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of a high\-pitched "chirp", "squeak" or "cricket" sound heard coming from the engine's Direct Injection \(DI\) high\-pressure fuel pump. Not all DI pumps may exhibit this sound. Some vehicles may have components which in combination with certain fuel temperatures and / or formulations, may result in aeration of the fuel within the body of the pump and cause this sound. This result is non\-detrimental to the vehicle. Production changes have been made to eliminate the source of the sound. IMPORTANT: A "clack" or mechanical "ticking" sound also made by operation of the highpressure fuel pump is considered to be a normal operating characteristic and no attempt should be made to repair it.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10131643-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10131643-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 to 2016 SUBARU BRZ

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2018606](/recalls/tc/2018606.md), 2018-11-02: Engine
- [18V772000](/recalls/nhtsa/18V772000.md), 2018-11-01: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

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