# Service bulletin 09\-68\-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: 10141492
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-06\-18
- Manufacturer's number: 09\-68\-18
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-05\-10
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING

## NHTSA's summary

This Service Information bulletin announces a design change to the exhaust system cover. The purpose of the change is to improve parts integration \(or ?commonality?\) between models.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10141492-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10141492-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 to 2017 SUBARU CROSSTREK
- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU FORESTER
- 2015 SUBARU XV CROSSTREK

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [16V162000](/recalls/nhtsa/16V162000.md), 2016-03-21: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:GASOLINE:TURBO/SUPERCHARGER
- [2016122](/recalls/tc/2016122.md), 2016-03-17: Engine

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [09\-84\-22R](/bulletins/11037934.md), 2026-10-05, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin announces Warranty Extension and design changes made to the front exhaust pipe and covers to address the concerns of some customers regarding an odor or a rattle\-type noise/fluttering sound coming from the undercarriage, during acceleration. This is an revised version of the original bulletin.
- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11034269.md), 2026-07-02, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\). \(This is an revised version of the original bulletin.\)
- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11033065.md), 2026-06-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [18\-230\-26](/bulletins/11033051.md), 2026-06-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin announces the diagnostic procedures to be used when DTCs B1571\(REFERENCE CODE INCOMPATIBILITY IMMOBILIZER CM TO ECM\) and B1572\(IMM CIRCUIT EXCEPT ANTENNA CIRCUIT\) are detected by Keyless Access with Push Button Start\(KACM\).
- [WRA\-26](/bulletins/11030577.md), 2026-04-02, Service bulletin: ENGINE. In the interest of customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. \(Subaru\) is initiating a new voluntary emissions recall for certain 2018 model year WRX and Forester vehicles and certain 2019 MY WRX equipped with a 2.0L turbo engine.
- [SubaruNet Announcement \(W](/bulletins/11030564.md), 2026-04-02, Other: ENGINE. This announcement provides information on the voluntary emissions recall WRA\-26 for the rear catalyst non\-compliance.
- [15\-300\-22R](/bulletins/11027982.md), 2026-02-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ENGINE. This Bulletin provides the diagnostic procedure for the STARLINK® Remote Engine Start \(RES\).
- [09\-74\-21R](/bulletins/11027090.md), 2026-01-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE; FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [18\-226\-25R](/bulletins/11027083.md), 2026-01-06, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ENGINE. This Service Information Bulletin provides the Service Manual Correction to the diagnostic procedure for DTC B2A16 \(Immobilizer Key Collation Diagnosis\).
- [18\-228\-25R](/bulletins/11027081.md), 2026-01-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE; FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This bulletin announces the diagnostic procedures to be used when DTCs P2096 \(POST CATALYST FUEL TRIM SYSTEM TOO LEAN BANK 1\) and P2097 \(POST CATALYST FUEL TRIM SYSTEM TOO RICH BANK 1\) are detected by the Engine Control Module \(ECM\).

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