Subaru Outback, Legacy. Published by Transport Canada as 2016487 on 6 October 2016. System: Structure.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the driver’s knee guard bracket may not have been properly aligned at the time of welding and may not have been properly attached to the steering beam. In a frontal crash where the driver is not wearing a seatbelt, the knee guard may not be able to restrain the occupant’s lower body as designed, …
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Transport Canada carries this recall as 2016487, dated 6 October 2016. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 16V716, dated 6 October 2016. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, WTL72.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2016487 | 16V716 |
| Dated | 6 October 2016 | 6 October 2016 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
Both registers carry the same date for this defect.
These are the dates each register records against its own notice. They are separate administrative acts in two countries, recorded by two authorities under two sets of rules, and this page does not claim that one caused the other or that owners in either country were contacted on those days. What it shows is that the same manufacturer campaign reached the two registers on different dates.
Read the American notice 16V716, including every earlier version of its wording this site holds. The Canadian register explains why the manufacturer code is published there and what that makes possible. Canada and America sets every matched pair side by side.
Subaru OUTBACK in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Subaru OUTBACK is named on 44 American notices, 14 British, 7 European and 33 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The British register
The European register
The Israeli 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
- 2016487
- Recall date
- 6 October 2016
- Make
- Subaru
- Models
- Outback, Legacy
- Model years
- 2017
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 79
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the driver’s knee guard bracket may not have been properly aligned at the time of welding and may not have been properly attached to the steering beam. In a frontal crash where the driver is not wearing a seatbelt, the knee guard may not be able to restrain the occupant’s lower body as designed, which could increase the risk of injury to the driver. Correction: Knee guard welds will be inspected and repaired as necessary. Note: All vehicles are to be inspected and/or repaired prior to sale.
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 2016487.
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.
- 2016492 · 7 October 2016 · Legacy, Outback, Impreza WRX · Electrical
- 2016471 · 26 September 2016 · Outback, Legacy · Visual System
- 2016257 · 25 May 2016 · Outback, Baja, Legacy · Airbag
- 2016207 · 11 May 2016 · Legacy, Outback · Steering
- 2016122 · 17 March 2016 · Forester, Impreza WRX · Engine
- 2016048 · 1 February 2016 · Tribeca · Structure
- 2017020 · 11 January 2017 · Baja, Tribeca, Impreza WRX · Airbag
- 2017108 · 2 March 2017 · Impreza · Visual System
The same system: Structure
800 notices in this register name Structure. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2016507 · 17 October 2016 · Sonata · Structure
- 2016516 · 20 October 2016 · Be School Bus, Ce School Bus, Ae School Bus · Structure
- 2016523 · 24 October 2016 · Ventana Le Class A Motorhome · Structure
- 2016524 · 24 October 2016 · London Aire Class A Motorhome · Structure
- 2016533 · 27 October 2016 · VT Series · Structure
- 2016475 · 27 September 2016 · Focus · Structure
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 notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Subaru Outback, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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 644 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2016.
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