Subaru Forester 2009–2013 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin 12-153-13 · NHTSA communication 10141522 · issued May 7, 2013
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment
component
2009–2013
model years
9
vehicle entries
Official summary
This Bulletin provides a repair procedure for the replacement of the tonneau cover stoppers. This procedure must be used in place of tonneau cover assembly replacement for stopper failure. Replacing the complete tonneau cover assembly due to a stopper failure is no longer an accepted repair.
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.