Subaru Brat, Glf, Standard, Gl, Dl. Published by Transport Canada as 1983005 on 12 January 1983. System: Electrical.
What the notice says The front main wiring harness, which is routed behind the maintenance free battery may chafe against the threads of the rear battery hold-down rod, exposing the wirind. This could lead top an electrical short and possibly result in an engine compartment fire.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1983005
- Recall date
- 12 January 1983
- Make
- Subaru
- Models
- Brat, GLF, Standard, GL, DL
- Model years
- 1981 to 1982
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 4,619
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
The front main wiring harness, which is routed behind the maintenance free battery may chafe against the threads of the rear battery hold-down rod, exposing the wirind. This could lead top an electrical short and possibly result in an engine compartment fire.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1983005.
Subaru elsewhere in this register
Subaru is named on 151 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1983011 · 3 February 1983 · Standard, DL, GLF · Seats And Restraints
- 1982037 · 19 April 1982 · GL, DL · Not Entered
- 1983020 · 22 February 1982 · GL, GLF, DL · Electrical
- 1984038 · 15 March 1984 · DL, GL · Steering
- 1984103 · 14 September 1984 · DL, GL · Engine
- 1985114 · 21 October 1985 · XT · Fuel System
- 1980159 · 21 November 1980 · GL · Seats And Restraints
- 1980094 · 25 June 1980 · GLF, GL, DL · Visual System
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1983019 · 18 February 1983 · B Series, F Series, Ft Series · Electrical
- 1983107 · 7 December 1983 · Accord · Electrical
- 1982033 · 23 March 1982 · L Series · Electrical
- 1983020 · 22 February 1982 · GL, GLF, DL · Electrical
- 1984025 · 23 February 1984 · 200 Series · Electrical
- 1981110 · 4 November 1981 · Conventional School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus · Electrical
Reading this against the source
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What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Subaru: 151 in the register, and 122 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1983.
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