# Service bulletin 15\-291\-22

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: 10208659
- Published by NHTSA: 2022\-03\-04
- Manufacturer's number: 15\-291\-22
- Manufacturer's date: 2022\-02\-18
- NHTSA component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE

## NHTSA's summary

Going forward when a customer’s vehicle is equipped with a DCM that does not have Software version ID DCM\_06.00.17\_20190816 installed and they wish to subscribe to Starlink Telematics Service, the DCM must be replaced.

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10208659-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2022/MC-10208659-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Electrical system, Software

## Vehicles listed

- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU CROSSTREK
- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU FORESTER
- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU IMPREZA
- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2016 to 2018 SUBARU OUTBACK
- 2017 to 2018 SUBARU WRX

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [21V264000](/recalls/nhtsa/21V264000.md), 2021-04-15: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE \(ECU/ECM\):SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:MANIFOLD/HEADER/MUFFLER/TAIL PIPE
- [19V743000](/recalls/nhtsa/19V743000.md), 2019-10-18: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION
- [18V773000](/recalls/nhtsa/18V773000.md), 2018-11-01: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [Subaru Starlink](/bulletins/10180737.md), 2020-10-05, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. Update for STARLINK Multimedia Software and Navigation Maps.
- [WUA\-86R](/bulletins/10176013.md), 2020-06-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. In the interest of customer satisfation, 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.
- [11\-200\-20R](/bulletins/10175989.md), 2020-06-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL. This bulletin announces the availability of reprogramming files to optimize the Engine Control Module \(ECM\) for hard starting in sub\-freezing temperatures, DTC P0400, and surging in high altitudes.
- [11\-191\-19](/bulletins/10163563.md), 2019-08-06, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This bulletin announces availability of a new Engine Control Module \(ECM\) for the models listed above designed to address DTC P2610: “ECM/PCM ENGINE OFF TIMER PERFORMANCE”. Under certain RARE conditions, an electrostatic surge may influence the ECM’s internal timer used after the engine is turned off and store a DTC P2610 in memory. Hardware in the ECM has been changed to eliminate any impact from electrostatic surges.
- [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.?
- [WUD\-89](/bulletins/10160489.md), 2019-05-28, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. In the interest of customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. \(Subaru\) is initiating a service program to reprogram the combination meter software to ensure improved accuracy of the driving range indicator calculation in the multi\-information display.
- [15\-205\-16R](/bulletins/10154412.md), 2019-03-11, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:NAVIGATIONAL SYSTEM\(GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM\); EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:RADIO/TAPE DECK/CD ETC.; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. This bulletin announces new reprogramming file availability and the software installation procedure to address additional operational concerns received from the field and listed below involving ?Gen 2? F10 Navigation and Display Audio units with 7? display.
- [11\-188\-19](/bulletins/10154410.md), 2019-03-11, Service bulletin: ENGINE; EQUIPMENT; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE. This bulletin announces availability of reprogramming files to optimize the ECM on the STI models listed with EJ2.5 engine and manual transmission. These files enhance engine misfire diagnosis to reduce the possibility of an incorrect detection of DTC P0300: RANDOM / MULTIPLE CYLINDER MISFIRE DETECTED. The DTC may set during frequent accelerator pedal on and off at highway speed.
- [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.

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