# Service bulletin 1215513R

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: 10235919
- Published by NHTSA: 2023\-05\-08
- Manufacturer's number: 1215513R
- Manufacturer's date: 2013\-10\-16
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT; VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD

## NHTSA's summary

?Reed\-Type? Wind Sound from Front Windshield Molding

## The document

- [NHTSA's copy of the document (PDF)](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10235919-0001.pdf)
- [If that address does not open, try this one](https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2013/MC-10235919-9999.pdf)

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

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Glass, wipers and mirrors, Windshield

## Vehicles listed

- 2012 to 2013 SUBARU IMPREZA
- 2013 SUBARU XV CROSSTREK

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [215513R](/bulletins/10232884.md), 2023-03-13, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. ?Reed\-Type? Wind Sound from Front Windshield Molding
- [12\-234\-18](/bulletins/10143878.md), 2018-08-20, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. This bulletin provides a repair procedure for replacing the foam cushion installed between the top front edge of the IP and the windshield glass. Use the supplied Service Procedure to address a customer concern involving the foam cushion becoming visible above the IP near the defroster vent outlets.
- [12\-234\-18](/bulletins/10133522.md), 2018-04-16, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. This bulletin provides a repair procedure for replacing the foam cushion installed between the top front edge of the IP and the windshield glass. Use the supplied Service Procedure to address a customer concern involving the foam cushion becoming visible above the IP near the defroster vent outlets
- [12\-155\-13R](/bulletins/10093343.md), 2017-03-01, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. THIS BULLETIN PROVIDES A PROCEDURE TO ELIMINATE A “REED\-TYPE” WHISTLING OR SCREECHING SOUND WHICH HAS BEEN ISOLATED TO ORIGINATING FROM THE FRONT WINDSHIELD UPPER MOLDING / WEATHERSTRIP. THE SOUND IS MOST PREVALENT WHILE DRIVING AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS \(APPROXIMATELY 70\-75 MPH\) WHEN THERE ARE CROSSWINDS PRESENT. THE PROCEDURE INVOLVES THE INSTALLATION OF 2 SMALL STRIPS OF EPDM FOAM MATERIAL, ONE UNDER EACH UPPER CORNER AREA OF THE WINDSHIELD MOLDING LIP TO PREVENT THE CONDITION FROM OCCURRING.
- [12\-155\-13R](/bulletins/10083791.md), 2016-11-02, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. THIS BULLETIN PROVIDES A PROCEDURE TO ELIMINATE A “REED\-TYPE” WHISTLING OR SCREECHING SOUND WHICH HAS BEEN ISOLATED TO ORIGINATING FROM THE FRONT WINDSHIELD UPPER MOLDING / WEATHERSTRIP.
- [12\-155\-13R](/bulletins/10068637.md), 2016-06-02, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. SUMMARY TO BE PROVIDED ON A FUTURE DATE.
- [12\-155\-13R](/bulletins/10067863.md), 2016-05-23, Service bulletin: VISIBILITY:WINDSHIELD. SUMMARY TO BE PROVIDED ON A FUTURE DATE.

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