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she is gone! thanks all. damn i miss this car.

sold pending pickup this week.

thanks! I actually welded up all of those paint can and caulk wall holders.

Thanks all. She is gone.

called Subaru. no updates. the recall line isn't owned by Subaru. farmed out and handles all recall phone traffic for most majors. so pointless calling them. for those who have an acting up car it's amazing the dealership has no info neither does Subaru. what I was too is the Subaru dealership won't buy the car bc they can't sell it with an open recall. Subaru wants you to keep making payments vs them having an unsellable car. last Subaru I will own. been loyal since 1990.

total horse crap. call SOA and they say no remedy. another reason not to buy a Subaru.

Valvoline 5w-30 conventional in my 08... 100k miles and 14 years later just did a leak down test and all cylinders perfect and within 3 percent. based on that and owner's manual... 0w-20 Valvoline. wife's turbo Mazda is 5w30 while non turbo is 0w20. wish Subaru would put 5w30 in their turbo cars.

That is factually untrue according to my last oil analysis from blackstone labratories who if you dont know about them they do millions of oil analyses. I was actually happy to see on my last UOA they said don't go by date.

interested in seeing the outcome of this

Just curious as to hear what you guys are doing when you have low mileage and you are told you have to service by "whichever comes first." mysubar.com, subaru, and the car all like to remind me the 24m/24,000 mile service is due for example. i have 5500 miles on my car. i work from home. hell i dont think most people during the pandemic drove 12K a year anyways. subaru says ever 6 months you MUST change the oil (or you will be shot). Dealer says "don't go by that no one cares" and doesn't know what a 24 month service entails despite giving a print out from subaru.

Why do i have to remote start my car you ask? to give it enough time so: 1. the navigation becomes responsive and i can disable collision avoidance (class action currently against it bc it sucks so bad) 2. for the engine to idle down so when i go from R to D the CVT doesn't make chirp so loud my neighbors hear it. btw, dealer says this is normal.

Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this. i have the ability to remote start via starlink. it's super slow imo. Wondering what exactly is required to get remote start via existing key fob. Does anyone have that? in the manual and online there is a procedure to use the current key fob to remote start. doesn't work. Then there is this part which is a whole new key fob dedicated only for remote start. https://parts.subaru.com/p/Subaru_2020_Legacy-24L-CVT-4WD-Limited/Remote-Engine-Starter---Push-Start/97174878/H001SAN001.html Two things: 1. I don't want a second huge ass key fob 2. Since the car can already be remote started by starlink, why would additional hardware have to be installed by a dealer to do the exact same thing starlink does? Doesn't matter starlink operates on ATT and key fob is RF. Both go to a computer and the computer triggers an action. I don't want an uneducated dealer to try and sell me some aftermarket junk that isn't really required when there is some software bit that simply needs to be switched.

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/02/subaru-dealers-told-to-refrain-from-marking-up-new-models-in-response-to-customer-complaints/amp/ and just like that Subaru issues a warning to its dealers not to mark up above MSRP. I would report that deal and ask for my money back.

report the dealer to SOA for that market upcharge. many manufacturers have sent out letters forbidding dealers to pull that crap otherwise they will reduce their allocations. i would never ever buy from a dealership who puts BS charges like that on me. sorry you chose a volatile business. not my problem. i dont need anything that bad in life i can't wait or go to another dealer.

btw I receive my letter yesterday

if that's the case why would they have a visual inspection component. I guess they are going to rely Upolu software to tell them if there is an issue while is funny bc it's the software that caused the issue. I smell lifetime warranty.

been an issue since day 1 with 3 updates. it's amazing how an American company, dodge, can make an infotainment system vastly superior to an Asian brand. it all comes down to crap hardware trying to save fifteen dollars and crap software. mine is frozen for at least 45 seconds on startup trying to get to the vehicle menu to disable collision avoidance which is such a major failure on these vehicles there is a class action do it.

my bad that's 96k since 2008 recalls so far were fuel pump, transmission, control module reprogram issues so far rattles, horrible temperature control, missing undercoating, underspray, huge gap where adjustable thigh support thing is, continually crashing head unit.

In 1 year and 5000 miles my 2020 has had more recalls than my 2008 with 960000 miles on it. More issues too.

called SOA and naturally said take it to dealer. my buddy works at a dealership and said there isnt anything they can do. so basically i gotta go down there for them to say "cant reproduce" to have it logged as an issue. let me know if anyone else has any luck. as a software developer, these cars are connected to the internet. you should be able to directly send stack traces/dumps to subaru like u can with most modern apps.

3k miles 29.9-30.1 seven hour all highway drive usually 75 but up to 80+.

just wanted to chime in on reboots. never had one until I got the 308. unit rebooted three times on a seven hour trip. I was using navigation, had full auto HVAC on, and was listening to Sirius xm. one reboot came after three hours. one after 47 minutes. then again after two hours. second one the turn by turn on the dash froze. wondering if that's the common link.

I went to the dealer and did the CCM update recalled and changed the temp offset from 0 to -3. only issue is I think the CCM update changes it from 3 to 0. so 77 became air conditioning. I had them set it to 0 again with the latest firmware...308 I believe... and 68 actually held 68 this time.

well, i got the update and all went well. F11GHM042-380 is my update. funny i was at 503 or 504 prior. i cant remember which.

FYI just got back from dealer. got the CCM recall and had them drop the offset by 3 degrees. will report back some day if it helps. i dont drive much these days with wfh and having 3 cars.