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EU Safety Gate · Report-2011-041

Subaru · Passenger car "Legacy" and "Outback"

The front windscreen wiper motor may generate heat and catch fire when the movement of the windscreen wipers is restricted (for example by snow that has accumulated on the windscreen).

Published
14 October 2011
Notifying authority
Greece
Catalog checked
30 July 2026
What should you do?

Check the authority measure and original alert.

Open the original alert before further use and follow the measures stated there.

Official source alert
Safety Gate reference
1072/11
Model
The recall concerns 2010 and 2011 model year vehicles, as follows: (1) Vehicles produced in Japan between 4 November 2009 and 17 May 2011. (2) Vehicles produced in USA between 7 Jan.....
Category
Motor vehicles
Risk type
Fire
Country of origin
Japan

Passenger car