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Originally Posted by hmong337
This head gasket failing design is what scared me away from anything Subaru prior to our FA20/4U-GSE. If it was going to be a reliable DD and it had to be a Subaru, I'll opt for the 2.0 or 2.2. Not the 2.5. One of my Dad's buddies has an old base Impreza with something like 480,000kms original engine. Too bad the body was shot from being a 90's design/material and our heavily salted Canadian winter roads rusting out our cars. It would've kept going but it went to the junkyard instead.
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I've heard other people with that sentiment about the Subaru head gaskets. I've just accepted it as a trade off for an otherwise great motor\vehicle. My mechanic\friend does tons of them and for him it's a 4 hour job.
my forester is still on the original wheel bearings and ball joints. I've also never done an alignment and it wears tires perfectly evenly on all four corners. 230k miles. It's just such a super solid vehicle. I tend to get carried away with how impressed I am with it, hahah.