Subaru Outback Service Bulletins (2019)

430 manufacturer communications on file.

• August 13, 2025•Document ID: 11022309

  Other
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Announcement

  Date Added:

  September 2, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  Subaru of America, Inc. will release an OTA to perform a software update to the DCM. This is a preventive OTA.

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• August 11, 2025•Document ID: 11022305

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  POWER TRAIN; ENGINE; ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  Subaru Service Technical

  Date Added:

  September 2, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  Subaru Service Technical Support Newsletter special edition.

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• August 11, 2025•Document ID: 11022304

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  STRUCTURE:BODY

  Mfr Comm. #:

  13-108-25

  Date Added:

  September 2, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This bulletin provides information on paint codes for vehicles in the 2026 line up.

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• July 29, 2025•Document ID: 11021266

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  07-235-25

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  In the interest of customer satisfaction Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is extending the New Car Limited Warranty coverage in the models listed for the selected EyeSight & Reverse Automatic Braking (RAB) components.

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• July 29, 2025•Document ID: 11021263

  Other
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; LANE DEPARTURE: WARNING; LANE DEPARTURE: ASSIST; FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: WARNINGS

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Announcement

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This announcement provides information about a Subaru of America, Inc. preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit regarding the EyeSight system in certain Subaru vehicles.

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• July 16, 2025•Document ID: 11021262

  Other
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Announcement

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This OTA is released to address Telematic functions that may stop working after a certain amount of time from the vehicle's production.

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• July 14, 2025•Document ID: 11021247

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  POWER TRAIN

  Mfr Comm. #:

  16-155-25R

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  In the interest of customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is extending the New Car Limited Powertrain Warranty coverage for the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) on the above listed models and model years from the original five (5) years or sixty thousand (60,000) miles (whichever comes first) to ten (10) years or one-hundred thousand (100,000) miles (whichever comes first).

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• July 10, 2025•Document ID: 11021258

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  10-105-25R

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  "This bulletin announces the new procedure and Warranty Fail Code for FirstTime air conditioning (A/C) performance concerns possibly resulting from an undetected A/C refrigerant leak. To improve Fixed Right First-Time (FRFT) and customer satisfaction, SOA is introducing a new procedure and fail code for first-time suspected A/C refrigerant leaks for cases when a Technician is unable to find the source of the leak or believes there was a potential factory under charge of the A/C system refrigerant."

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• July 10, 2025•Document ID: 11021257

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-256-19R

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This bulletin provides information on a new reprogramming procedure (FOTA) to optimize the Harman Gen 3.1 Audio and Navigation head units (H/U) utilized in the models as listed above. Firmware-over-the-air (FOTA) is a process by which remote devices can receive updates to their operating software.

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• July 10, 2025•Document ID: 11021256

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-236-18R

  Date Added:

  August 4, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3.1 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed.

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• June 30, 2025•Document ID: 11019956

  Other
  POWER TRAIN

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Announcement

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  As part of Subaru's dedication to customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is announcing an extension to the new car powertrain limited warranty for the CVT for certain 2019-2020MY vehicles.

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• June 27, 2025•Document ID: 11019953

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  UNKNOWN OR OTHER

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Annoucement

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This announcment provides information on the release of the latest software updates to the Subaru Midtronics DSS-5000 Battery Diagnostic tool.

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• June 26, 2025•Document ID: 11019950

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-314-23R

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This Bulletin is to inform you of the availability of the new auxiliary USB terminal and adapter cord designed to address cases of intermittent communication loss when using Apple CarPlay and/or Android Auto application connected via the auxiliary USB terminal port (2-port type) to Gen 3.1 Harman Head Unit.

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• June 26, 2025•Document ID: 11019948

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  UNKNOWN OR OTHER; ENGINE

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-314-23R

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This Bulletin is to inform you of the availability of the new auxiliary USB terminal and adapter cord designed to address cases of intermittent communication loss when using Apple CarPlay and/or Android Auto application connected via the auxiliary USB terminal port (2-port type) to Gen 3.1 Harman Head Unit.

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• June 24, 2025•Document ID: 11019943

  Other
  UNKNOWN OR OTHER

  Mfr Comm. #:

  SubaruNet Announcement (S

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This announcement is to bring attention to the OTA for In-vehicle service appointment scheduler and In-vehicle message center.

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• June 24, 2025•Document ID: 11019932

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-251-19R

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This Bulletin provides additional diagnostics to follow when addressing a Telematics-related DTC B2A16.

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• June 23, 2025•Document ID: 11019942

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  10-105-25R

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  This Service Information bulletin announces the new procedure and Warranty Fail Code for FirstTime air conditioning (A/C) performance concerns possibly resulting from an undetected A/C refrigerant leak.

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• June 10, 2025•Document ID: 11019934

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-236-18R

  Date Added:

  July 1, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  The following information addresses reprogramming file availability and a software update installation procedure to provide optimization to the new Harman Gen 3.1 Audio and Navigation head units utilized in the models as listed

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• May 29, 2025•Document ID: 11018912

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

  Mfr Comm. #:

  15-322-25R

  Date Added:

  June 3, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  In the interest of customer satisfaction, Subaru of America, Inc. (SOA) is extending the New Car Limited Warranty coverage for the CP1 & Gen 3.1 Head Unit used in the listed models and model years to (8) eight years / 150,000 miles to cover certain qualifying repairs to the infotainment audio system.

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• May 19, 2025•Document ID: 11018909

  Service Bulletin/Repair Instructions
  UNKNOWN OR OTHER

  Mfr Comm. #:

  01-168-09R

  Date Added:

  June 3, 2025

  Manufacturer:

  SUBARU

  Summary

  The purpose of this bulletin is to provide replacement key and immobilizer information along with an overview of the Subaru Lock Information web-site.

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