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Subaru Legacy 2020technical service bulletin

Bulletin Subarunet Announ · NHTSA communication 10185072 · issued Dec 11, 2020

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2020
model years
2
vehicle entries

Official summary

Subaru of America, Inc. (Subaru) is recalling certain 2020 model year Legacy and Outback vehicles in which a firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) update to the Cockpit Control Module (CCM) software may have timed out during the update.

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.