Subaru Forester. Published by Transport Canada as 2025344 on 20 June 2025. System: Structure.
What the notice says Issue:
On certain vehicles, the bolts that secure the universal anchorage system (UAS) for installing a child car seat may not have been tightened properly. As a result, the bolt(s) could loosen, and the anchor(s) could separate in a crash.
Note: This recall only affects Forester e-BOXER hybrid models.
Safety …
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.
Transport Canada carries this recall as 2025344, dated 20 June 2025. The American register carries the same defect as campaign 25V419, dated 19 June 2025. They are the same defect because the manufacturer filed both under one internal campaign code, WRC25.
| Canada | United States | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | 2025344 | 25V419 |
| Dated | 20 June 2025 | 19 June 2025 |
| Register | Transport Canada | NHTSA |
The two registers are 1 day apart: the American entry is dated first, the Canadian one second.
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 25V419, 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 FORESTER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Subaru FORESTER is named on 26 American notices, 12 British, 8 European and 26 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
- 2025344
- Recall date
- 20 June 2025
- Make
- Subaru
- Models
- Forester
- Model years
- 2025
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Structure
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 199
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Issue:
On certain vehicles, the bolts that secure the universal anchorage system (UAS) for installing a child car seat may not have been tightened properly. As a result, the bolt(s) could loosen, and the anchor(s) could separate in a crash.
Note: This recall only affects Forester e-BOXER hybrid models.Safety Risk:
A child seat that isn't properly secured could increase the risk of injury in a crash.Corrective Actions:
To reduce the safety risk, Subaru advises you not to install child seat(s) using the universal anchorage system. You may still install child seat(s) using the rear seat belts, as described in the vehicle owner's manual and child seat manufacturer's installation guide until the recall repairs have been completed. Subaru will notify owners by mail and advise you to take your vehicle to a dealership to inspect and, if necessary, tighten the lower child seat anchor bolts.
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 2025344.
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.
- 2025456 · 4 September 2025 · Solterra · Heater And Defroster
- 2025601 · 31 October 2025 · Solterra · Visual System
- 2025032 · 23 January 2025 · Forester · Wheels
- 2026077 · 20 February 2026 · Forester, Crosstrek · Fuel System
- 2024546 · 15 August 2024 · Outback, Tribeca, Forester · Label
- 2026329 · 7 July 2026 · Ascent, Forester, Crosstrek · Label
- 2024190 · 22 March 2024 · Outback, Legacy · Airbag
- 2023606 · 9 November 2023 · WRX, Crosstrek, Impreza · Powertrain
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.
- 2025343 · 20 June 2025 · Wildwood, Salem · Structure
- 2025349 · 24 June 2025 · King Aire Class A Motorhome, London Aire Class A Motorhome, Essex Class A Motorhome · Structure
- 2025331 · 16 June 2025 · TS 45, TS 30 · Structure
- 2025350 · 25 June 2025 · Sierra, Silverado · Structure
- 2025361 · 27 June 2025 · GT · Structure
- 2025325 · 13 June 2025 · Bronco · 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 Forester, 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 656 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2025.
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