Service bulletins for the 2013 Subaru Outback
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.
519 on file from NHTSA, as of 2026-10-19.
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| WQI-45 | 2018-06-18. Service bulletin. STEERING:COLUMN; EQUIPMENT; STEERING. Subaru has determined that a defect, which relates to motor vehicle safety, exists on 5,379 2013MY Subaru Legacy and Outback vehicles. The steering column may not have been manufactured to specification. During the manufacturing process, the steering column shafts may not have been ?press-fitted? sufficiently. This could allow the shafts to disengage from one another. If this were to happen, the driver would lose the ability to steer the vehicle and a crash could occur. This recall will involve replacing the steering column on all affected vehicles |
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