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Originally Posted by NOHOME
The deal is...at about 100,000 miles the car is going to be worth maybe 4-5k max in value.
With shop rates at Toyota running $125/hour today, and only going up as time moves on, this little piece of maintenance is going to run well over $2000.
You would be better to part out the car and move on at that point rather than pour the money into the repair.
To me, these kind of repairs are not acceptable. I have become used to Mazda (piston engine) levels of reliability, and if the FRS pulls this stunt at the low mileage of 100,000, it will be the last Subaru product that I own.
The take-home message I am getting is that the FRS might become like the RX8: Great chassis for those that don't mind keeping spare engines under the bench and are capable of swapping them in on their own. How well did that work for the RX8?
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All conjecture at this point. Not all the Subaru engines have an issue and hopefully it doesn't appear. Way too early at this point to simply assume there will be problems.
Same as not all Mazda's had perfect engines and certainly had some serious rust issues for many years.