# Service bulletin 04\-23\-18R

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: 10154409
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-03\-11
- Manufacturer's number: 04\-23\-18R
- Manufacturer's date: 2019\-01\-11
- NHTSA component: STEERING; STEERING:RACK AND PINION:RACK; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin provides helpful tips to simplify the diagnosis of sound concerns originating in the electronic power steering \(EPS\) gearbox \(steering rack\) assembly. If a vehicle presents with a ?rattling?, ?knocking? or possibly a ?clanging? type sound coming from the steering rack and / or a vibration felt through the steering wheel, use the flow chart below to help make diagnosis of the concern easier.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154409-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10154409-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Steering, Power steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 2014 to 2018 SUBARU FORESTER

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [041314](/bulletins/10232871.md), 2023-03-13, Service bulletin: POWER TRAIN; STEERING; FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:STORAGE:TANK ASSEMBLY; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. New Electric Power Steering \(EPS\) Control Unit for DTC C2532
- [04\-24\-18](/bulletins/10153182.md), 2019-02-19, Service bulletin: STEERING; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. This bulletin announces a new Electronic Power Steering \(EPS\) control module for the models listed above. These new EPS control modules address a limited number of customer concerns regarding increased steering effort which may occur during freezing temperatures after a cold start. The cause has been identified as a frozen relay contact inside the control module. Illumination of the EPS warning lamp can also occur and a DTC C2532 may be stored.
- [04\-18\-17](/bulletins/10117540.md), 2017-09-14, Service bulletin: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. MODELS WITH EYESIGHT ONLY. This bulletin announces availability of a new Electronic Power Steering \(EPS\) controller to address a very limited number of cases involving DTC B281C "INCOMPATIBLE WITH EYESIGHT \(EPS\)" in the EyeSight system.
- [04\-13\-14](/bulletins/10067857.md), 2016-05-23, Service bulletin: STEERING; STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. NEW ELECTRIC POWER STEERING \(EPS\) CONTROL UNIT FOR DTC C2532
- [SB\-04\-13\-14R](/bulletins/10059218.md), 2016-02-19, Service bulletin: STEERING:ELECTRIC POWER ASSIST SYSTEM. SUBARU: AN ISSUE OF INCREASE STEERING EFFORT, ELECTRIC POWER STEERING \(EPS\) WARNING LIGHT COMES ON WITH DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE \(DTC\) C2532 AND TO ADDRESS CODE A NEW EPS CONTROL UNIT THAT IS AVAILABLE. MODEL 2014 FORESTER, 2012\-14 IMPREZA, XV CROSSTREK \(INCLUDING HYBRID\). \*PE

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