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Well crap. It seems like everyone loved Subarus in the last several threads about them. I had to trade my pickup in on something with AWD and sufficient ground clearance, yet easier for me to help my bride get in and out of, and settled on a ‘21 Forester. Now it sounds like I may have screwed up. | |||
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You have company, But I kept the pick up and car | |||
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| If you see me running try to keep up  |
The problems with mine started in the last few months with the tranny leak. Up to that point I hd no issues. The CVT issue along with high trade in values is what made me sell (well. along with my like of new vehicles over used. I also end up selling every 3-4 years). Subaru bumped up the CVT warranty to 75k but I really do not care for my local Subaru dealer, I was not pleased with the warranty work. I bought my last two Subaru's outside Dallas at a much better dealer but I am not driving 4 hours for warranty work on it. This car was also my wife's for the first two years so it was driven very little, maybe that is why I started seeing problems recently. | |||
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Up here in the northern latitudes this isn't as big a thing. I know someone moving from here to FL, though, who should probably get this done to his vehicles. Thanks! Harshest Dream, Reality | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
On my third Tacoma. The first one, a Gen 2 TRD sport never had a recall that I can remember. My 2018 had one which was air bag related, and my current 2019 TRD Off Road has had two. One was for the sticker in the door channel needed to be replace because load capacity was incorrect by some minute amount, and the other was a fuel pump replacement which was a much bigger deal as they needed to drop the tank to do the replacement. They gave me a loaner so I was not without transportation. Other than that, they've been rock solid although I'm a low mileage driver (5,000 - 8000 per year). My current 2019 which I bought in Dec of 2018, has 11,000~ miles on it. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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| Left-Handed, NOT Left-Winged! |
The difference is pretty much this: Subaru engines developed for the US market are iffy. Engines developed for the Japanese market and sold here as well are a lot better. The dividing line for Japanese spec engines is usually 2.0L due to how the Japanese government taxes motors bigger than 2.0L. I think the reason is that a US-only motor just doesn't get the same development investment and engineering as a "global" engine that will be produced in higher volume for more markets. The 2.5L had a lot of marginal engineering decisions that were made to meet US emissions, such as cast pistons (not forged) even in the turbo motors! They might have resolved the 2.5L issues by now. The OW20 oil used to meet fuel economy (lower internal friction) burned way too fast because it was so thin. Boxer engines burn oil on startup because the horizontal cylinder walls stay wet after shut down and don't drain back under gravity. Then the oil cools and thickens and on the next startup it burns off. Even with relatively high consumption, if you check oil frequently and add as needed you will be fine. I suspect many problems are due to people not checking oil end and not adding any between change intervals. Average drivers drive until the service interval or until the "oil" light comes on, and by then it's really too late. | |||
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You do know its all Fuji Heavy Industries right..... "da evil Count Glockula."-Para | |||
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| If you see me running try to keep up |
Did not know that but it looks like Toyota has a 20% stake in Subaru. It really does not matter, I will get much more for my Tacoma with 100k miles than I would for the Forester, even if you take into consideration the Tacoma costing more new. | |||
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