# Service bulletin 0215714R\-1

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: 10233058
- Published by NHTSA: 2023\-03\-20
- Manufacturer's number: 0215714R\-1
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-12\-02
- NHTSA component: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING

## NHTSA's summary

Surface Treatment Change To Oil Control Piston Rings

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10233058-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2014/MC-10233058-9999.pdf)

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## Components

Engine

## Vehicles listed

- 2011 to 2014 SUBARU FORESTER
- 2012 to 2013 SUBARU IMPREZA
- 2013 to 2014 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2013 to 2014 SUBARU OUTBACK
- 2012 to 2013 SUBARU XV CROSSTREK

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2018606](/recalls/tc/2018606.md), 2018-11-02: Engine
- [18V772000](/recalls/nhtsa/18V772000.md), 2018-11-01: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11034269.md), 2026-07-02, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\). \(This is an revised version of the original bulletin.\)
- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11033065.md), 2026-06-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [15\-300\-22R](/bulletins/11027982.md), 2026-02-02, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ENGINE. This Bulletin provides the diagnostic procedure for the STARLINK® Remote Engine Start \(RES\).
- [09\-74\-21R](/bulletins/11027090.md), 2026-01-06, Service bulletin: ENGINE; FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [18\-226\-25R](/bulletins/11027083.md), 2026-01-06, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ENGINE. This Service Information Bulletin provides the Service Manual Correction to the diagnostic procedure for DTC B2A16 \(Immobilizer Key Collation Diagnosis\).
- [07\-235\-25](/bulletins/11023536.md), 2025-10-02, Service bulletin: FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS; ENGINE. In the interest of customer satisfaction Subaru of America, Inc. \(SOA\) is extending the New Car Limited Warranty coverage in the models listed. The extension will address instances of “phantom braking” or the EyeSight/RAB systems causing unnecessary stoppage/slowing of the vehicle.
- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11022313.md), 2025-09-02, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [Subaru Service Technical](/bulletins/11022305.md), 2025-09-02, Other: ENGINE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; POWER TRAIN. Subaru Service Technical Support Newsletter special edition.
- [02\-193\-24R](/bulletins/11018914.md), 2025-06-03, Service bulletin: FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM; ENGINE. This bulletin provides updated parts information and a service procedure to follow for removing accumulated carbon deposits from fuel injectors and internal engine components \(e.g. intake valves and / or manifold, and combustion chambers\).
- [02\-192\-24R](/bulletins/11017452.md), 2025-05-01, Service bulletin: ENGINE. This Bulletin announces the diagnostic procedures to be followed when diagnosing engine oil leakage on FA and FB type engines.

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