# Service bulletin 12\-260\-19

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: 10160212
- Published by NHTSA: 2019\-05\-20
- Manufacturer's number: 12\-260\-19
- Manufacturer's date: 2019\-04\-18
- NHTSA component: STRUCTURE

## NHTSA's summary

This bulletin provides a procedure to address a small number of customer concerns regarding a metallic rattle or chirping \-type sound heard coming from the top of the front ?A? pillar area. The sound may originate from either side of the vehicle.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10160212-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10160212-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Body and frame

## Vehicles listed

- 2019 SUBARU FORESTER

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [12\-269\-25R](/bulletins/11036824.md), 2026-09-03, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin announces the service procedures to be followed when encountering instances of water intrusion from the sunroof area. This is an revised version of the original bulletin.
- [05\-62\-18R](/bulletins/11036822.md), 2026-09-03, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides a procedure to address customer concerns of surface rust accumulating in the top center retaining nut area of the front strut mounts. This is an revised version of the original bulletin.
- [12\-279\-26](/bulletins/11033052.md), 2026-06-01, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This bulletin announces a design change to the Power Rear Gate Drive \(PRG\) Unit to address rare concerns about a very slight drop immediately after the gate is fully open.
- [12\-269\-25](/bulletins/11022328.md), 2025-09-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; STRUCTURE:BODY. "This bulletin announces the service procedures to be followed when encountering instances of water intrusion from the sunroof area for models listed. "
- [13\-108\-25](/bulletins/11022304.md), 2025-09-02, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin provides information on paint codes for vehicles in the 2026 line up.
- [12\-265\-25](/bulletins/11016230.md), 2025-04-01, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; STRUCTURE:BODY. This bulletin announces design changes made to the Power Rear Gate Drive \(PRG\) Unit to address concerns of the power rear gate being inoperative.
- [12\-262\-25](/bulletins/11016174.md), 2025-04-01, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY. This Bulletin announces diagnostic procedures to be followed when working with a Power Rear Gate \(PRG\).
- [12\-251\-23R](/bulletins/11010905.md), 2024-12-02, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This bulletin announces the initialization service procedures to be followed when diagnosing and/or repairing Power Rear Gate \(PRG\) systems.
- [12\-251\-23](/bulletins/10246093.md), 2023-12-05, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE:BODY:HATCHBACK/LIFTGATE; LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This bulletin announces the initialization service procedures to be followed when diagnosing and/or repairing Power Rear Gate \(PRG\) systems.
- [12\-248\-23R](/bulletins/10244910.md), 2023-11-06, Service bulletin: STRUCTURE. This Bulletin announces the repair procedure developed to address rattle\-type sounds heard from the left and/or right B\-Pillar area.

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