# Service bulletin WQR53

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: 10233148
- Published by NHTSA: 2023\-03\-20
- Manufacturer's number: WQR53
- Manufacturer's date: 2016\-01\-11
- NHTSA component: AIR BAGS

## NHTSA's summary

Update: Front Passenger Air Bag Inflators WQR?53

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10233148-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10233148-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Air bags

## Vehicles listed

- 2005 to 2008 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2005 to 2008 SUBARU OUTBACK
- SUBARU SUBARU

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2020001](/recalls/tc/2020001.md), 2020-01-02: Airbag
- [20V003000](/recalls/nhtsa/20V003000.md), 2020-01-02: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- [20V002000](/recalls/nhtsa/20V002000.md), 2020-01-02: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- [20V001000](/recalls/nhtsa/20V001000.md), 2020-01-02: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- [2015599](/recalls/tc/2015599.md), 2015-12-18: Airbag
- [15V323000](/recalls/nhtsa/15V323000.md), 2015-05-28: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- [14V763000](/recalls/nhtsa/14V763000.md), 2014-12-01: AIR BAGS
- [04V274000](/recalls/nhtsa/04V274000.md), 2004-06-09: AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
- [2004189](/recalls/tc/2004189.md), 2004-06-08: Airbag

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [Subarunet Announcement](/bulletins/11005609.md), 2024-08-05, Other: AIR BAGS; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. This announcement provides information on Takata Recall Escalated Towing Program.
- [TKA\-20R, TKB\-20R](/bulletins/10248223.md), 2024-01-03, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC. has determined that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists in certain 2003\-2014 model year Legacy and Outback vehicles, 2003\-2006 model year Baja vehicles, 2009\-2013 model year Forester vehicles, 2004\-2011 model year Impreza vehicles, and 2004\- 2014 WRX \(including STI\) vehicles equipped with a non\-desiccated Takata\-sourced passenger\-side frontal air bag containing the propellant Phase Stabilized Ammonium Nitrate \(PSAN\).
- [TKA\-20R/TKB\-30R/](/bulletins/10244915.md), 2023-11-06, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. SUBARU OF AMERICA, INC. has determined that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists in certain 2003\-2014 model year Legacy and Outback vehicles, 2003\-2006 model year Baja vehicles, 2009\-2013 model year Forester vehicles, 2004\-2011 model year Impreza vehicles, and 2004\- 2014 WRX \(including STI\) vehicles equipped with a non\-desiccated Takata\-sourced passenger\-side frontal air bag containing the propellant Phase Stabilized Ammonium Nitrate \(PSAN\).
- [TKA\-20R,TKB\-20R,](/bulletins/10237234.md), 2023-06-05, Service bulletin: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; AIR BAGS. Takata Front Passenger Airbag Module / Inflator “Like for Like” Recall
- [14V471](/bulletins/10235890.md), 2023-05-08, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE; AIR BAGS:FRONTAL. WQM?49 Front Passenger Air Bag Inflator Recall \(NHTSA ID 14V?471\)
- [TKA, TKB, TKC\-20](/bulletins/10235277.md), 2023-05-02, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. Takata Front Passenger Airbag Module / Inflator “Like for Like” Recall
- [14V471](/bulletins/10234900.md), 2023-04-24, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. Regional Front Passenger Air Bag Inflator Replacement
- [WQR53](/bulletins/10234291.md), 2023-04-17, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. Expanded Takata Front Passenger Air Bag Inflator Recall WQR?53
- [WQR53R](/bulletins/10233149.md), 2023-03-20, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. Takata Front Passenger Air Bag Inflator Replacement
- [Announcement](/bulletins/10233106.md), 2023-03-20, Service bulletin: AIR BAGS. Expanded Takata Front Passenger Air Bag Inflator Recall

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