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08-04-2009, 12:35 PM | #351 | |
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Soooo... Needless to say, Now I'm a little worried...
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08-04-2009, 12:37 PM | #352 |
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08-04-2009, 12:48 PM | #353 |
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08-04-2009, 12:51 PM | #354 |
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08-04-2009, 12:56 PM | #355 |
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Thats crazy. Hopefully SOA gives you a free warranty, if not a whole new car. Do you have any lemon laws in your state? Here in MD, if you're without your car for 30 days or more, due to the same issue, even on multiple visits, your car is considered a lemon. Also, 4 visits to the shop for the same problem make it a lemon. You might want to check in to those laws...
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08-04-2009, 01:23 PM | #356 |
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08-04-2009, 02:33 PM | #357 |
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Oh the engine may very well have been fine. Keep in mind that service technicians are peforming the service (putting a new long block in); all I can say is that the local service technicians have my car all kinds of ****ed up.
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08-04-2009, 05:16 PM | #358 |
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Great......
Seeing Celly's comments on the new engine definately don't have me feelin' real comfortable about this. I believe I'll be requesting a comp'd 100k warranty for sure, one that's transferable due to the loss of value. Anyone will be able to look up, on here, or more over a carfax report, that these cars all have engine replacements. I am also worried about the local tech's putting in a whole new engine, so far so good with the local dealer though, so I'm hopeful their techs are genisus. On the flip side, the mfg f'd that up too....so can't be any worse. Just a shame for anyone, let alone a first time subbie owner. That confidence I had in that car is truly waining, if not gone. All I can do is expect the worst and hope for the best. By the way, Florida's lemon laws Celly are pretty clear and should be in your info packet you got when you bought the car, if you haven't got that covered already. Thanks and good luck peeps.
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08-04-2009, 08:51 PM | #359 |
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Does anyone know how we can find out what the numbers are nationally for this engine issue?
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08-04-2009, 08:55 PM | #360 |
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Sadly, I don't think we'll ever get ahold of this information. It'd be nice if we had an extremely friendly SOA rep who would share more info with us, but it seemed to take a long time just to figure out what was causing the bearing problems in the first place. Some people have said every single WRX built during the affected period will eventually fail, I just wonder if that's true, or being blown out of proportion.
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08-04-2009, 08:57 PM | #361 | |
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08-04-2009, 09:04 PM | #362 |
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Thanks for the info... does anyone know when Subaru learned that the ones with the bad build dates were all having problems? Mine was built 8/08 and sold to me 2/2/09; I'm thinking they must have known about it by then, so why were they still selling those particular cars?
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08-04-2009, 09:07 PM | #363 |
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Celly,
This was the engine subaru replaced after your first engine had the bearing issue? Did they explain what caused this? |
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08-04-2009, 09:33 PM | #365 | |
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08-05-2009, 07:24 AM | #366 | |
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08-05-2009, 10:43 AM | #367 |
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I just talked to a salesman in ********, KS. He was downright upset/rude when I brought up the issue of the engine failure. He said it was all because people were rodding their engines and putting bad oil in them. I just laughed and left the dealership right after that. Needless to say I bought a car from another dealership.
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08-05-2009, 10:58 AM | #368 | |
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08-05-2009, 11:16 AM | #369 | |
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08-05-2009, 11:31 AM | #370 |
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So far we have been lucky and haven't seen any bad ones here at our dealership. I have a few customers with ones that are early build dates with no issues and around 7-9,000 miles. So knock on wood.
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08-05-2009, 06:44 PM | #371 |
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Keep knocking. Mine went at just under 8K. Waiting on it now...rocking the Yaris 4dr in it's place. Awesome.
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08-05-2009, 10:41 PM | #372 |
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Well, two things happened today. I made a call early to SOA, to see about getting a warranty extension for my car. The young lady said she'd check with her manager, and call me back later on. Five minutes later, I had a 7 year and 100k mile warranty. Then, today, the car seemed to hesitate a bit around 3k RPM. I went on a very short drive with a Subaru tech after hours, and he said it doesn't feel right to him. Looks like I'm back to the dealer tomorrow to see whats goin on...
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08-06-2009, 07:38 AM | #373 | |
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i feel bad for all these people who are having problems i hope i dont my build date is 2/09
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