Don't Drive Your Tribeca on Bad Roads

[Jon in CT]

FHI is conducting a safety recall involving about 12,000 Tribecas in 24 overseas markets with bad roads. Apparently, excessive rear suspension stroke causes fatigue failure of the rear suspension's front lateral link. Lucky for US and Canadian owners, there are no bad roads here in North America and so there is no recall here.

 

Details at http://nhthqnwws112.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/docservlet/Artemis/Public/Foreign%20Campaigns/2008/F-Campaigns/FRCL-08F087-2879.pdf.

[grbspecb]

Have been to Jersey?

[andrew.anderson]

As the message says...It only affects one manufactured overseas.

[Jon in CT]

As the message says...It only affects one manufactured overseas.

All Tribecas sold worldwide are manufactured in Indiana.

[PhilT]

;2102958'] Lucky for US and Canadian owners, there are no bad roads here in North America and so there is no recall here.

 

Details at http://nhthqnwws112.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms/docservlet/Artemis/Public/Foreign%20Campaigns/2008/F-Campaigns/FRCL-08F087-2879.pdf.

 

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

[Jon in CT]

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit

I thought puns were the lowest form.

[andrew.anderson]

;2103009']All Tribecas sold worldwide are manufactured in Indiana.

 

I'm just telling you what the message says.

[Guest]

Have been to Jersey?

 

Pfft. New Jersey has perfect roads comapred to Massachusetts. Heck, Ukraine has better roads than Massachusetts.

[ShadowImg]

I think the confusion here is in the term 'road'. What they are referring to as a road, we would not even call one here. Think more in terms of an area of ground that has simply been cleared for things to travel through, but has in no way been prepared as a road.

[Guest]

I think the confusion here is in the term 'road'. What they are referring to as a road, we would not even call one here. Think more in terms of an area of ground that has simply been cleared for things to travel through, but has in no way been prepared as a road.

 

Are you spokesman for a politician? I love that explanation.

 

Let's put it this way. The fact that some of the streets e.g. around Somerville, MA have been cleared and even paved at some point is largerly irrelevant. They are kinda like areas that have been cleared for things to travel through

 

I think you're implying that those countries are in stone age and don't have proper roads Actually I think that simply some of these owners outside U.S. who buy Tribeca SUV... actually.... oh my god... take them off-road! Unlike U.S. poser buyers.

[ShadowImg]

Not just the US -- if you read it, it says US, Japan, Germany, UK, etc are all excluded.

 

I'm guessing there were people buying them in the more remote parts of Australia and the likes, where the Toyotas and Rovers are normally all that's roaming around.

[SLegacy99]

Interesting, this isn't the first SUV I've heard of having such a problem.

[ultimakf7]

Not just the US -- if you read it, it says US, Japan, Germany, UK, etc are all excluded.

 

I'm guessing there were people buying them in the more remote parts of Australia and the likes, where the Toyotas and Rovers are normally all that's roaming around.

 

 

Like Soviet Russia? In Soviet Russia, road forks you!

[krzyss]

If I were NHTSA I would ask FHI for detailed reason why they think this recall should not be applied to US or Canada.

Making a statement that "U.S. road condition severity is rank 1" is very broad one knowing that roads in one state can be quite different (not to mention town or a city). I bet that "statistically" speaking US or Canada or Germany or Japan has better roads than unmentioned "24 countries in certain Europe, Middle & Near East, Asia, and Australia" but it may only mean that it will take a little longer for failure to develop.

 

Krzys

 

PS Go anywhere image may come back and bite you.

[nemo]

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8346/22qu2.jpg

[rao]

The Tribeca continues to impress

[Jon in CT]

Here's is China's version of this recall, I think, although this report says the problematic part is the front suspension steering tie rod.

 

From http://www.chinacsr.com/en/2008/10/15/3351-subaru-china-recalls-tribeca-suv/:

Subaru China Recalls Tribeca SUV

 

October 15, 2008

 

Subaru China has submitted a recall report to China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine that from October 14, 2008, the company will recall B9-Tribeca/Tribeca SUVs manufactured during the period June 3, 2005 to July 28, 2008, a total up to 2,608 units in China.

 

The reason for the recall is that the installation of the suspension front tie rod is incorrect. If the vehicle runs on an uneven road for a long time, the tie rod might be fractured, and the driver might hear an unusual noise or the vehicle might not perform as expected.

 

Subaru China will conduct inspections to those recalled vehicles and install an improved steering tie rod to eliminate the problem.

 

The company will inform consumers of the recall from October 14, 2008 onwards. Or consumers can contact Subaru's designated repair stations to arrange for the inspection and replacement.

[SubOperator]

I will be sending a formal request to SOA regarding this. We have an 07 SB9T that my wife drives and I don't want to take any chances with this.

 

SOA can't dictate me which roads to travel by as soon as those are public roads. "Bad road" is a broad and fuzzy definition that appears rather like an attempt to mask the issue.