Subaru Forester 2015 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin FWR · NHTSA communication 10089801 · issued Feb 24, 2016
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2015
model years
2
vehicle entries
Official summary
"due to a flashwrite database error, when searching for 2015 forester 2.0l turbo pack files by vehicle specification (only), the new cid for the latest pak files displays incorrectly as shown below. The actual new cid should read as lf61700b as shown when the search is performed using the vehicle cid#. Regardless of how the pak file is searched, the correct file is applied by flashwrite in both cases. If the ecm is checked following programming, the new cid lf61700b will be found as long as flashwrite (release month jan 2016) is used for this application. This display error will be corrected a
Vehicles covered
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.