VALVE SPRING WORLD - PRESS RECALL

[Trap63]

Here are the the news, outcoming now from Japan (see pics for Toyota VIN)

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/

[oaroyale]

Finally!

Just saw this on the news today. I called the dealership and they said "there's no recall for your call" I am guessing that's going to come later?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...00000-vehicles

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by oaroyale

Finally!

Just saw this on the news today. I called the dealership and they said "there's no recall for your call" I am guessing that's going to come later?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...00000-vehicles

Is your vin number included in the range in the post above yours? If yes the dealer just has not received the notice yet. If no then you will not hear later.

[Gunman]

oooo, I think I may have won the faulty valve spring recall lottery, lol. Will have to watch for a notice in the mail.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Trap63

Here are the the news, outcoming now from Japan (see pics for Toyota VIN)

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.

I spent a while looking for actual failures on the models listed and found nothing. Looks like they identified the possible failure internally and not through actual reported issues. Not that it makes it a better situation for those affected but at least there is some comfort in knowing they are dealing with it.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Gunman

oooo, I think I may have won the faulty valve spring recall lottery, lol. Will have to watch for a notice in the mail.

[Trap63]

[oaroyale]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Is your vin number included in the range in the post above yours? If yes the dealer just has not received the notice yet. If no then you will not hear later.

Dang... I guess I am out. I am 1121. Which means it's an earlier production than the recall cars. This is quite interesting....

[TytheToyotaGuy]

Ok so slightly off topic question but I've been searching everywhere and can't find the actual notice/TSB.

How about the revised rocker arms that they came out with for the MY2013 cars? I seem to remember them only replacing if the engine made the ticking/typewriter noise, not an actual recall. Does anyone have a link to this TSB?

If my car is affected by the spring issue and they're going to have the engine apart, should I ask the dealer to put in the revised rocker arms while they're at it?

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by TytheToyotaGuy

Ok so slightly off topic question but I've been searching everywhere and can't find the actual notice/TSB.

How about the revised rocker arms that they came out with for the MY2013 cars? I seem to remember them only replacing if the engine made the ticking/typewriter noise, not an actual recall. Does anyone have a link to this TSB?

If my car is affected by the spring issue and they're going to have the engine apart, should I ask the dealer to put in the revised rocker arms while they're at it?

Ooh that's a good idea, I'll have to remember that if mine needs to go in for this.

[xjohnx]

Originally Posted by oaroyale

Dang... I guess I am out. I am 1121. Which means it's an earlier production than the recall cars. This is quite interesting....

Mine is also earlier #, but later date. mine states it was manufactured on 4/12, but my VIN is JF1ZCAC13D16009XX

[x808drifter]

Welp

"There is a very small possibility of a valve spring fracture in a very small number of affected vehicles, which could lead to engine noise, malfunction or, in a worst-case scenario, an engine stall," Subaru said in a statement. "We are recalling the entire population of vehicles that could possibly be affected out of an abundance of caution. We want our customers to be confident in their vehicles."

[D_Thissen]

Mine falls into the production period (July '13) but looks like my VIN number is okay. #34515

[Gunman]

Originally Posted by TytheToyotaGuy

Ok so slightly off topic question but I've been searching everywhere and can't find the actual notice/TSB.

How about the revised rocker arms that they came out with for the MY2013 cars? I seem to remember them only replacing if the engine made the ticking/typewriter noise, not an actual recall. Does anyone have a link to this TSB?

If my car is affected by the spring issue and they're going to have the engine apart, should I ask the dealer to put in the revised rocker arms while they're at it?

I haven't heard of that one, and don't see it in the pinned TSB list on here. Curious for more info.