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Service bulletins for the 2011 Subaru Forester

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.

358 on file from NHTSA, as of 2026-10-19.

About P050A on the 2011 Subaru Forester: what the code means, and the bulletins and recalls about the same components.

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Only bulletins with trouble code: P050A are shown. Show all

Bulletins, newest first
11135132023-03-20. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE (ECU/ECM):SOFTWARE. ECM Reprogramming Availability for DTC P050A
1111612R2023-03-06. Service bulletin. ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:ENGINE CONTROL MODULE (ECU/ECM):SOFTWARE. DTC P0301 ? P0304 and P050A Reprogramming
11-135-132017-03-03. Service bulletin. ENGINE. THIS BULLETIN ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF ECM REPROGRAMMING FILES TO ADDRESS A FALSE CEL/MIL ILLUMINATION AND SETTING OF DTC P050A. THIS DTC CAN RESULT FROM SPECIFIC CLUTCH OPERATION (ON MT MODELS) AND / OR DRIVING PATTERNS OCCURRING IMMEDIATELY AFTER STARTING THE ENGINE.
11-116-12R2016-11-18. Service bulletin. ENGINE. "THE PURPOSE OF THIS BULLETIN IS TO ANNOUNCE THE AVAILABILITY OF UPDATED ECM REPROGRAMMING FILES TO ADDRESS DTCS P0301 – P0304 AND P050A. NOTE: THESE REPROGRAMMING FILES ARE INTENDED TO ADDRESS A CONDITION WHEN DTCS ARE PRESENT FOR MISFIRE, BUT NO ACTUAL DRIVABILITY CONDITION EXISTS OR HAS BEEN REPORTED BY THE CUSTOMER. ACTUAL ENGINE MISFIRE OR ROUGHNESS CONDITIONS MUST BE DIAGNOSED ACCORDING TO THE PROCEDURES LISTED IN THE APPLICABLE SERVICE MANUAL."
SB-11-135-132014-01-03. Service bulletin. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; ENGINE. SUBARU: ECM IS AVAILABLE FOR REPROGRAMMING FILES TO ADDRESS FALSE CEL/MIL ILLUMINATION AND THE DIAGNOSTIC TROUBLE CODE (DTC) P050A RESULTED FROM SPECIFIC CLUTCH OPERATIONS AND/OR DRIVING PATTERNS AFTER STARTING ENGINE. MODEL 2011-2013 LEGACY, FORESTER, IMPREZA. *PE

The summaries are NHTSA's. Each bulletin's page links NHTSA's copy of the manufacturer's document.