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jMeG, thank you very much for your in-depth reply! I like the idea of calling Subaru. I did get a quote from Vroom and was disappointed. Will try Carvana too.

The car drives great, but the seats just don’t work for me, and the electronics just aren’t doing it for me either. I’m less than 1/2way through my lease but the KBB trade in is the same as my payoff ($31,000 with 18,000 miles). Think I can do better than $31k?

Yes, mine has always done it, before and after two updates.

I have no complaints about my Touring XT’s drive ability. I only punch it when passing, and the cruise control speeds up nicely on its own. To me the CVT is unnoticed and I find the drivetrain at 12,000 miles very smooth. Nappa leather looks great, no wrinkles or stains. I have not cleaned or conditioned. Car still feels new. Doors are like bank vaults. Trunk lid, not so much. Very light and flimsy. About 1/2 the time I open it, it bounces back down and shuts again.

11,000 miles here. The car’s primary purpose is transportation. The secondary purpose is to annoy me. Alarm sensory overload, and I have many shut off. The start/stop system, even though I have the fresh update. Car has dementia and forgets who I am. The system crashes. Erratic system behavior (hey, why is Sirius radio paused? where are the seat climate buttons!?). Cheap feeling trunk lid. Lane centering system that fights and wants to propel me into to the right. It would have been pricier but I wish the new TLX had been available last May when I had to lease my next car.

My car does this too. It doesn’t seem like I’m too far to the left but at times I have to fight the car from propelling me to the right. Which is exactly what happens if I release the steering wheel suddenly. The car stays centered if left to it’s own devices which obviously doesn’t last long. After 11,000 miles I still haven’t figured out a way to comfortably hold the wheel, but loose enough to let the car self center.

I just use Apple Maps most of the time now. It’s traffic rerouting has served me well.

The automatic system does work well... it shuts off the brights so far ahead of time, the other drivers weren’t aware they were ever on. I wasn’t aware of a third position. Just tested, worked great... Thanks for the tip!

I hadn’t noticed this before, but during a long drive at night on back roads, multiple drivers flashed their brights at me because they thought my bright lights were on. They weren’t, although I was using the auto brights feature. How can I flash my bright lights to let them know that my brights weren’t on? Lot of complaints about bright LEDs on Outback forum but haven’t read about it here.

I’m into this device, it looks very easy to install. Not cheap at $100. I’m about 1/6 of the way through a three year lease so this will make the car less annoying. I wonder if Subaru might do something with a future firmware update that renders this gizmo useless.

I’m reading reports on Outback forums of profiles being dropped post-update. This happened to me too and I had to rebuild my profile. I got the email, If the car tells me that an OTA update is available, I’m wondering whether I should install or ignore it.

May I compliment you sir, for your taste in bands.

I generally like and use it, but it’s not perfect. I feel like the car does a good job when it drives itself (hands off wheel). But at times it feels like the system is fighting me and pulling very hard to the right (never to the left). I haven’t figured out a way to comfortably and lightly hold the wheel in a way that lets the system do its thing and not get me barked at for not holding the wheel. (Ps, I have the latest update which allegedly improved the lane centering function. I noticed NO difference)

This is my thread and I finally got home to do my update, which worked perfectly. Like others, I am perceiving some improvement in the stereo, even with Sirius XM.

I’m sorry, I don’t do impressions, my training is in psychiatry. (Sorry, had to) A very good and thoughtful review. I agree with many of your observations, it’s like driving a video game. I wouldn’t call myself a spirited driver and I appreciate many of the nannies, and after 3k miles haven’t had an improper activation. For me the lane centering often feels like it’s tugging the car to the right, but when I let go of wheel it steers fine....

Looks great. Might be able to actually tap those Waze buttons now!

I'm away from my Legacy for a couple of weeks but I've carefully read the thread on the Outback forum and I've successfully (I think!) copied the required 4 files to an NTFS-formatted USB drive. The dealers are bricking the head units more than the people doing the update themselves, which is why I'm going to do it myself.

I’ve got >4000 on my Legacy, I’ll probably ask for it during my 6k service in a couple of months. If the updates are too large to do over wifi I wonder why they can’t do via USB drive? I’ve already installed the Jan 2020 map update using the USB process in my car.

Why in the world is there a cost to a software update? And where are the wifi updates? Has there ever been one?

https://www.subaruoutback.org/threads/2020-outback-software-gigathread.517684/page-30

I’m a lurker on Outback forums... there is a software update that moves Start Stop to the car settings screen (just under auto hold) and allows full screen portrait use of Apple Car Play. Looks like you have to go to dealer to have installed. But there is some talk about a cost for this (!?!?). It’s not clear whether this will be a user installable update via wifi.

Been reading about the coming update. Connected to wifi and system shows I have the current software version. Would be nice if I could download system updates to USB the same as map updates.

Just read a long term review of 2019 Ascent on MT. One of their criticisms was that there was no reminder within the vehicle that routine maintenance was due. Very surprised about this. Do we have this issue too? I appreciate the reminders. Iirc the interval is 6k miles...

I have twice moved the seat a little closer to the wheel, and reclined the spine angle a little more. That seems to be helping. I hope I get used to it because I do love the car. I’m even becoming more annoyed when start stop doesn’t work...

2000 miles on my Touring XT. Speed and weight seem very influential on mpg (holy newsflash batman!) Ohio to Wisconsin with 240lb treadmill (yes, it fit), 70 to 77mph, got just under 30mpg. Return trip, just me, no treadmill, same speed, 32mpg.