Subaru Gl, Glf, Dl, Standard. Published by Transport Canada as 1983020 on 22 February 1982. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Certain 1980-81 Standard, DL, GL, GLF models. There is a potential for the 25 amp headlight fuse to overheat, causing the fusible strip to melt resulting in loss of headlight use.
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.
Subaru GL in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Subaru GL is named on 4 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1983020
- Recall date
- 22 February 1982
- Make
- Subaru
- Models
- GL, GLF, DL, Standard
- Model years
- 1980 to 1981
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 11,683
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain 1980-81 Standard, DL, GL, GLF models. There is a potential for the 25 amp headlight fuse to overheat, causing the fusible strip to melt resulting in loss of headlight use.
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 1983020.
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.
- 1982037 · 19 April 1982 · GL, DL · Not Entered
- 1983005 · 12 January 1983 · Brat, GLF, Standard · Electrical
- 1983011 · 3 February 1983 · Standard, DL, GLF · Seats And Restraints
- 1980159 · 21 November 1980 · GL · Seats And Restraints
- 1980094 · 25 June 1980 · GLF, GL, DL · Visual System
- 1984038 · 15 March 1984 · DL, GL · Steering
- 1984103 · 14 September 1984 · DL, GL · Engine
- 1979034 · 21 February 1979 · GL, DL · Fuel 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.
- 1982033 · 23 March 1982 · L Series · Electrical
- 1981110 · 4 November 1981 · Conventional School Bus, Conventional Non-School Bus · Electrical
- 1983005 · 12 January 1983 · Brat, GLF, Standard · Electrical
- 1983019 · 18 February 1983 · B Series, F Series, Ft Series · Electrical
- 1983107 · 7 December 1983 · Accord · Electrical
- 1984025 · 23 February 1984 · 200 Series · 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 102 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1982.
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