So I'm already having a few problems with my new 06 WRX and it's got me worried of what could go wrong in the long run. I sure hope my car doesn't start falling apart in a couple years.

First off I just noticed yesterday that the whole corner of the weather stripping near the passenger side rear window was just hanging down. Probably about 7 inches worth of it was loose. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be glued on there or what, but it doesn't look like it was. I was able to kinda re-attach it to the metal for now, but it doesn't seem like it is stuck on there very good. I'm going to have the dealer look at it.

My second issue is that after I turned my car on last night I noticed that the stereo display had no lights on it whatesover. The headlights and all interior lights including the stereo buttons were on, but not the actual display. I of course tried pressing the power on button then all of the other buttons, but none of them got it workin. Finally I just turned the car off and on and then the display was working again. I hope this things not just gonna crap out for good one of these days already.

I've already got 23,000 miles on the car and I'm kinda worried that I might have more of these sort of problems occuring after the warranty is up. I just didn't expect these sort of things to be happening on a near new Subaru. Anyone else having any similar problems with yours?

The weather stripping pulls out very easily, it is not difficult to stuff back into place, you can do it yourself or have the dealer do it. It is VERY easy to do and not at all scary once you're used to how it works. I had to remove mine to put JDM side visors on and can vouch for how easy it is to work with. As for the stereo, honestly, who cares? It's a POS and you'll probably end up replacing it with something better down the road. Just have them replace it if needed. That's what warranties are for.

23K miles in a year, does not qualify as "near new" in my book, but that's my opinion.

I had my weather stripping come out in the exact same place. No biggie really though, just took a copule minutes of fussing to get it back in there. That was over a month ago and I've had no problems since. I just figured it was one of my foolish friends using it as a handle to get out or something...

The weather stripping pulls out very easily, it is not difficult to stuff back into place, you can do it yourself or have the dealer do it. It is VERY easy to do and not at all scary once you're used to how it works. I had to remove mine to put JDM side visors on and can vouch for how easy it is to work with. As for the stereo, honestly, who cares? It's a POS and you'll probably end up replacing it with something better down the road. Just have them replace it if needed. That's what warranties are for.

23K miles in a year, does not qualify as "near new" in my book, but that's my opinion.

Thanks, thats good to know about the weather stripping. I didn't really get a good look at it since I noticed it when I was camping and it was dark out.
As for the stereo it has good enough sound quality for me, so I don't really plan on replacing it and there are bigger POS stereos in cheaper cars like my last honda that last at least 100k miles.

Yeah I can see why you would say 23k miles seems like a lot to classify it as near new, but the car is only 8 months old with mostly cruising freeway miles, so I wouldn't think crap should be going wrong with it.

I also already had to bring the car in to the dealership for a random, bad sounding grinding noise. Turns out it was just a rock that got stuck between the between the brake rotor and backing plate, but I wouldn't think a car that is made to be a sort of all terrain vehicle would be suceptible to a little tiny rock.

Oh I also have that annoying irregular kind of grinding sound when decellerating from higher RPM's and after hearing of all of the broken tranny storys it just kinda worries me.

I guess I may be a little off base in my bitching, but it's just kind of annoying having these little issues on a "less than year old car" when it was a stretch for me to afford it in the first place.

I had my weather stripping come out in the exact same place. No biggie really though, just took a copule minutes of fussing to get it back in there. That was over a month ago and I've had no problems since. I just figured it was one of my foolish friends using it as a handle to get out or something...

Haha yeah pretty sure that it was one of my friends who did it to mine. I also love it when people push on the window to slam the door.

Thanks, thats good to know about the weather stripping. I didn't really get a good look at it since I noticed it when I was camping and it was dark out.
As for the stereo it has good enough sound quality for me, so I don't really plan on replacing it and there are bigger POS stereos in cheaper cars like my last honda that last at least 100k miles.

Yeah I can see why you would say 23k miles seems like a lot to classify it as near new, but the car is only 8 months old with mostly cruising freeway miles, so I wouldn't think crap should be going wrong with it.

I also already had to bring the car in to the dealership for a random, bad sounding grinding noise. Turns out it was just a rock that got stuck between the between the brake rotor and backing plate, but I wouldn't think a car that is made to be a sort of all terrain vehicle would be suceptible to a little tiny rock.

Oh I also have that annoying irregular kind of grinding sound when decellerating from higher RPM's and after hearing of all of the broken tranny storys it just kinda worries me.

I guess I may be a little off base in my bitching, but it's just kind of annoying having these little issues on a "less than year old car" when it was a stretch for me to afford it in the first place.


The grinding decel noise could be the throw-out bearing, I would take it in and have a tech ride along with you. I had it too in my 02 wrx, but the whole shebang was changed out when I took it in for a juddery clutch, never had much noise issue after the new clutch was in. They are noisy transmissions however, I didn't find mine as fragile as everyone would have you believe. If you drag race the car and beat the hell out of it, it will probably break. If you drive with some mechanical sympathy, it should be reliable. YMMV.

I had my weather stripping come out in the exact same place. No biggie really though, just took a copule minutes of fussing to get it back in there. That was over a month ago and I've had no problems since. I just figured it was one of my foolish friends using it as a handle to get out or something...

We have the same problem on our AS-350 B3 EuroCopter A-stars.... very annoying on a helicopter costing a couple million dollars....

(my point is, sometimes that's just a cost of business on a $35,000 car.... just push the stuff back on!)