# Service bulletin 11\-184\-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: 10153613
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-02\-25
- Manufacturer's number: 11\-184\-18
- Manufacturer's date: 2018\-12\-10
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin announces reprogramming file availability to optimize the ECM. These new files prevent an incorrect diagnosis of DTC P119F: AIR FUEL RATIO IMBALANCE FOR DIRECT INJECTION \(BANK 1 FLUCTUATION ENGINE SPEED\) and DTC P219A: AIR FUEL RATIO IMBALANCE \(BANK 1\).

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10153613-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2018/MC-10153613-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Electrical system, Fuel system, Software

## Trouble codes named

P119F, P219A

## Vehicles listed

- 2017 to 2019 SUBARU BRZ

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [15\-236\-18R](/bulletins/10238443.md), 2023-07-03, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM\(GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM\); ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3.1 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed.
- [Subaru Starlink](/bulletins/10180739.md), 2020-10-05, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Update your STARLINK Multimedia Software and Navigation Maps.
- [Subaru Starlink](/bulletins/10180737.md), 2020-10-05, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Update for STARLINK Multimedia Software and Navigation Maps.
- [GEN 3\-1](/bulletins/10160507.md), 2019-05-28, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Immediately discontinue the use of latest 2019 MY Gen 3.1 Harman Software update.
- [15\-236\-18R](/bulletins/10160501.md), 2019-05-28, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3.1 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed above. The procedure will involve either downloading the software update files from Subarunet \(or using those sent directly from Nuspire\) and transferring them onto a flash drive for head unit installation. It is VERY IMPORTANT to read and understand this information completely to understand all changes from prior releases before proceeding.
- [15\-204\-16R](/bulletins/10160495.md), 2019-05-28, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; VISIBILITY; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY. Subaru of America, Inc. \(Subaru\) is recalling 2018 model year Legacy, Outback, and BRZ vehicles equipped with a certain combination of head unit hardware and software, due to the possibility of noncompliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard \(FMVSS\) 111 ? ?Rear Visibility.?
- [WTZ\-85R](/bulletins/10160494.md), 2019-05-28, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE/MOBILITY. Subaru of America, Inc. \(Subaru\) is recalling 2018 model year Legacy, Outback, and BRZ vehicles equipped with a certain combination of head unit hardware and software, due to the possibility of noncompliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard \(FMVSS\) 111 ? ?Rear Visibility.?
- [15\-211\-17R](/bulletins/10154204.md), 2019-03-11, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed above. The procedure will involve either downloading the software update files from Subarunet \(or using those sent directly from Nuspire\) and transferring them onto a flash drive for head unit installation.
- [WUA\-86R](/bulletins/10154202.md), 2019-03-11, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; EQUIPMENT. In the interest of customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. \(Subaru\) is initiating a service program to update the Harman Kardon head unit on certain vehicles with the latest version of software.
- [15\-211\-17R](/bulletins/10150939.md), 2018-12-10, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:OTHER:OWNERS/SERVICE/OTHER MANUAL; EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM\(GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM\); ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed above. The procedure will involve either downloading the software update files from Subarunet \(or using those sent directly from Nuspire\) and transferring them onto a flash drive for head unit installation.

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