# Service bulletin WQI\-45

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: 10141539
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-06\-18
- Manufacturer's number: WQI\-45
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-05\-22
- NHTSA component: STEERING:COLUMN; EQUIPMENT; STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

Subaru has determined that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists on 5,379 2013MY Subaru Legacy and Outback vehicles. The steering column may not have been manufactured to specification. During the manufacturing process, the steering column shafts may not have been ?press\-fitted? sufficiently. This could allow the shafts to disengage from one another. If this were to happen, the driver would lose the ability to steer the vehicle and a crash could occur. This recall will involve replacing the steering column on all affected vehicles

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10141539-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10141539-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Steering, Steering column and wheel

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2013 SUBARU OUTBACK

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [13V194000](/recalls/nhtsa/13V194000.md), 2013-05-13: STEERING:COLUMN; STEERING

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