Subaru Legacy 2020–2021 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin SubaruNet Announ · NHTSA communication 10216974 · issued Jul 8, 2022
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Equipment Adaptive/mobility
component
2020–2021
model years
4
vehicle entries
Official summary
"Subaru of America, Inc. (Subaru) is initiating this safety and emissions recall for certain 2020-2021 model year turbo Legacy vehicles and 2020-2021 model year turbo Outback vehicles in which the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) chain may slip and/or break. (New recall WRK22 will cover 182 pre-production vehicles not already included in the WRK21 recall initiated in December 2021. These additional 182 vehicles will require the same repair. Background)."
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.