# Service bulletin WQI45\-3

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: 10234893
- Published by NHTSA: 2023\-04\-24
- Manufacturer's number: WQI45\-3
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-05\-22
- NHTSA component: STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

Steering Column Disengagement

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10234893-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10234893-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Steering

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 SUBARU LEGACY
- 2013 SUBARU OUTBACK

## Recalls for the same vehicles and component

- [2013162](/recalls/tc/2013162.md), 2013-05-13: Steering
- [13V194000](/recalls/nhtsa/13V194000.md), 2013-05-13: STEERING:COLUMN; STEERING

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [05\-97\-26](/bulletins/11032035.md), 2026-05-04, Service bulletin: STEERING; WHEELS. This Bulletin provides the diagnostic procedures to be followed when addressing customer concerns of steering wheel/vehicle body vibration when driving at highway speeds when tire/wheel balance is suspected.
- [064714](/bulletins/10235894.md), 2023-05-08, Service bulletin: STEERING; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. Revision to Troubleshooting Information for VDC DTC C0071
- [WQI45Update](/bulletins/10235888.md), 2023-05-08, Service bulletin: STEERING. Steering Column Service Procedure Update
- [WQI45](/bulletins/10235887.md), 2023-05-08, Service bulletin: STEERING. clarify some claim questions that have been asked regarding the Steering Column recall
- [WQI45\-4](/bulletins/10234894.md), 2023-04-24, Service bulletin: STEERING. Steering Column Recall
- [WQI45\-2](/bulletins/10234892.md), 2023-04-24, Service bulletin: STEERING. Subaru Recall Campaign WQI?45: 2013MY Legacy/Outback Steering Column Parts Update
- [WQI45\-1](/bulletins/10234891.md), 2023-04-24, Service bulletin: STEERING. Update; Subaru Recall Campaign WQI\-45: 2013MY Legacy/Outback Steering
- [WQI45](/bulletins/10234890.md), 2023-04-24, Service bulletin: STEERING. New Subaru Recall Campaign WQI?45: 2013MY Legacy/Outback Steering Column
- [04\-15\-17](/bulletins/10192926.md), 2021-05-10, Service bulletin: STEERING. This bulletin announces a new steering column assembly designed to address a limited number of customer concerns involving the tilt mechanism portion not staying locked. This condition can only occur during the process of adjusting the steering column?s tilt position if the tilt lever is not pushed up all the way back up when completed. Once the column is fully locked \(the tilt lever is pushed all the way up\), there is no concern of possible release.
- [WQI 45A 1](/bulletins/10141541.md), 2018-06-18, Service bulletin: STEERING; EQUIPMENT. Subject: WQI?45 2013MY Legacy/Outback Steering Column Service Procedure Update NOTE: The plastic shipping insert \(indicated by red arrow below\) must be removed prior to installing the new steering column in the vehicle. Page 8 of the campaign bulletin will be revised to include a note specifying removal of this plastic shipping insert. Please refer to STIS for the revised version of the campaign bulletin.

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