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November 1, 2018
About recall of Impreza, Forrester, BRZ
On November 1, 1990, SUBARU Co., Ltd. reported the recall of Impreza, Forester, BRZ to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Recall notification number No. 4361 Recall date Upon preparation
Fault site (part name) Prime mover (valve spring)
In reference incompatibility state and
structure to admit, apparatus or performance
status and Hara Cause Since the design is inappropriate in the valve operating mechanism part of the prime mover, the spring may be broken due to excessive load than the design condition of the valve spring and minute foreign matter in the spring material due to general manufacturing variation. Therefore, abnormal noise is generated from the engine and engine malfunction occurs, and in the worst case, the engine may stop during traveling.
Content of improvement measures Replace all vehicles and valve springs with countermeasures.
Car name Type expression Common name
Range of the chassis number of the recalled car and production period
Number of recalled vehicles Remarks
Subaru DBA-GJ 6 "Impreza" GJ 6-002086 to GJ 6-004928
January 17, Heisei 24 - June 6, Heisei 20 2,031
DBA-GJ 7 GJ 7-002566 to GJ 7-012555
January 18, Heisei 24 - June 4, Heisei 20 7, 177
DBA-GP 6 GP 6-002344 to GP 6 - 009978
January 17, Heisei 24 - June 6, Heisei 20 5,295
DBA-GP 7 GP 7-003718 to GP 7-045077
January 17, Heisei 24 - June 6, 2013 33, 062
DBA-SHJ "Forester" SHJ - 021283 to SHJ - 026050
Heisei er 17 - January 24 Heisei 20 4,739
DBA-SJ 5 SJ5-002001 to SJ5-025663
October 10, 2012 - September 30, Heisei 20 14,242
DBA-ZC 6 "BRZ" ZC 6-002002 to ZC 6-010144
March 9, 2012 to July 2, 2013 7,803
(7 model) (3 vehicles in total) (Scope of the whole production period)
January 17, Heisei 24 - September 30, Heisei 20 (74,349 in total)
* Since vehicles that are not eligible may be included in the range of the chassis number and production period of the target car, please contact the nearest dealer for details.
https://www.subaru.co.jp/press/recall/2018_11_01_6443/
