[roy826]

First time poster and I hate coming in with a un positive post. My wife owns the car and I'm the trusty maintenance guy. We can't trust dealerships with the simplest of task locally. Brief run down, my wife like small sports cars and her past cars were a 02 Miata then her favorite 06 S2000. Miata didn't last to long she never really liked it. The S2000 was destroyed by a freak hail storm two years ago and that's when she bought the BRZ. She has enjoyed the BRZ up until two weeks ago when I was performing a routine oil and filter change. Only the 4th one since the car only has 20k miles on it. That is when I discovered the oil leak coming from the drivers side timing cover meeting point at valve cover and cyl head. It had been leaking a while as the skid pan was covered in oil and of course the bottoms side of that cyl head side.

I was also shocked to notice no coolant in the coolant tank literally dry. It was a little lows last oil change about 5 months ago didn't think anything of its.

Fast forward we took the car in to selling dealer the only Subaru dealer local. Immediately got the run around from service advisor saying I spilt oil filling the car yadda yadda. I said well the dirt and grime sure didn't waste any time sticking to that oil then. Point bring that's not what happened I'm a pretty good wrench and way better than anything they have there. Anywho he took the car in and two days later called me to inform me he cleaned all the oil mess up and topped off the coolant tank. We were to drive the car and do a follow up on the leak. Word for word of what a service bulletin on oil leaks said that I read online. So we took it home 19 miles, checked and my hand was covered in oil when I stuck it under the head. No coolant in the over flow tank again. That was on a Friday so couldn't take it back until following Monday they are çlosed on saturdays.

Took it in the following Monday and again ran my hand under the suspected leak area at timing cover/head/valve cover, hand full of oil. He didn't say much of anything just completed the work order. I could tell the whole bunch was not to happy with seeing this car back or me. Last thing I told them is its under warranty, it's leaking, fix it! We leave out of town tomorrow for 4 days so won't get an opportunity to follow up until next week. The car is paid for and we can walk away from it easy but I would/will not sell or trade a car with a major issue. It's just not right. I don't have any faith in Subaru or this dealership. I expect many more problems to crop up after this repair. My wife really doesn't have anything similar to go buy right now. She loves driving it but hates the Subaru aspect of it. We are longtime Toyota customers that's all I will drive is their trucks. Love Honda but they don't make anything but boxes with wheels now days.

Sorry for the winded entrance but ive lurked here a while and I am totally blown away by the problems these cars seem to have. Listened to a good friend that worked their for many years or I personally would never had bought this car. He couldn't sell me the time of day now.