# Service bulletin WQG\-43

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: 10141549
- Published by NHTSA: 2018\-06\-18
- Manufacturer's number: WQG\-43
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-05\-30
- NHTSA component: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS

## NHTSA's summary

Subaru of America, Inc. has determined that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists on certain 2005\-2009 model year Subaru Legacy/Outback vehicles currently or formerly registered in at least one of the ?salt\-belt? states listed below. These vehicles may have been manufactured with brake lines that could, over time, corrode in the area of the fourway joint connector if exposed to salt. Excessive corrosion could eventually cause perforation of a brake line\(s\) resulting in a brake fluid leak.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10141549-9999.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10141549-0001.pdf)

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

## Components

Brakes, Brake hoses and lines

## Vehicles listed

- 2005 to 2009 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2005 to 2009 SUBARU OUTBACK

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [14V311000](/recalls/nhtsa/14V311000.md), 2014-06-10: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS
- [13V110000](/recalls/nhtsa/13V110000.md), 2013-03-27: SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [WQG\-43U](/bulletins/10141550.md), 2018-06-18, Service bulletin: SERVICE BRAKES, AIR:SUPPLY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS. Update: Subaru Recall Campaign WQG43: Brake Line Corrosion On March 27, 2013, Subaru of America, Inc. announced that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists on the following affected vehicles. These vehicles may have been manufactured with brake lines that could, over time, corrode in the area of the four?way joint connector if exposed to salt.

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