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Between 1 September 2026, 03:39 UTC and 1 September 2026, 10:34 UTC, the text of the remedy (what the manufacturer will do about it) on campaign 26V436, filed by Subaru, was replaced. The authority publishes one version at a time. This is both.

What changed

5 words were removed and 2 were added.

Removed from the earlier version

Subaru will mail a new certification label to owners, free of charge. Owners may also choose to have a dealer install the new label, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed August 25, 2026. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRH-26.

Added in the version now published

Subaru will mail a new certification label to owners, free of charge. Owners may also choose to have a dealer install the new label, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed August 24, 2026. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRH-26.

Both versions in full

As we read it on 1 September 2026

Subaru will mail a new certification label to owners, free of charge. Owners may also choose to have a dealer install the new label, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk are expected to be mailed August 25, 2026. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRH-26.

As we read it on 1 September 2026

Subaru will mail a new certification label to owners, free of charge. Owners may also choose to have a dealer install the new label, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed August 24, 2026. Additional letters will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact Subaru customer service at 1-844-373-6614. Subaru's number for this recall is WRH-26.

Sealed

The version now published is fingerprinted, and that fingerprint is folded into a single number we publish once a day and cannot quietly recompute. It was fixed before you read this page. Follow the path below and you arrive at the seal we had already published: how the seal works.

The wording we publish for 26V436 is one of 1,470 notices sealed on 4 September 2026.

Fingerprint of this notice
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Position in that day’s seal
1,366 of 1,470
Seal published that day
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The record has moved on since that seal; the current root is f2183e7910ae25dad4428185458f040255b18c70df4900f39170e35572112f93.

The audit path, 11 steps
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Cite this version

CarsMultiverse (A.I.T. Multiverse Consulting Ltd). "Subaru rewrote the remedy on recall 26V436, 1 September 2026." https://carsmultiverse.com/changed/26v436-remedy-2026-09-01/ Sealed 4 September 2026. Notice fingerprint 205d80c5c7bd7ac0e12028e8d1eb922c2af9225f973a656e262cf0a8d45887d9. Seal 5bbe3ba384f682a77c48eaa79102103516378da4f273b862d951b0d0d1163dab.

If this is your car

The fix itself was reworded. If this recall has already been carried out on your vehicle, it was carried out to whatever the instruction said at the time. If it has not been, book it - the repair is free either way.

A notice being edited is not by itself evidence of anything. Wording is corrected for ordinary reasons as well as significant ones, and we record that it changed without claiming to know why.

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How we know

We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy with a SHA-256 of the text. This page exists because the hash we recorded on 1 September 2026 no longer matched the one we took on 1 September 2026. Nothing here is an interpretation of what the manufacturer meant; it is the difference between two files.

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