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Originally Posted by Tcoat
So you went looking for the problems, found them and now the car sucks?
Do more research. Those problems effect about 1% of the overall cars. Not in anyway higher than the norm for any new car. This (and any forum) will focus on the problems since this is where people look for help and should never, ever be used as a representation of what is "normal".
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No no, I didn't go looking for those issues. It started with reading about an engine failure, a day or so later, someone at another forum reported their twin had suffered a blown engine, while going to work. I just started looking around the technical section here, and the Unofficial CEL-thread and got the impression that it is happening at least enough to be a known problem. Someone who has an FR-S said that he considered it to be "an alarming rate" of failures. This got me worried, and why wouldn't it?
I'm not saying every Twin will have an engine failure, I'm saying based on what
I have read, it seems to happen a little too often for a new, modern car. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is this really a "normal rate" of failures? Keep in mind that this forum is not at all the only source I've come across for these failures.
But I'm still optimistic about getting one, so I'm not out of here yet! I'm just tired of having car problems, which is somewhat my own fault since I have a preference for sporty Japanese cars. Three Subarus - one GC8 WRX with 350 hp, one JDM STi blobeye, one WRX hawkeye wagon with a STi engine swap. Two Nissans, the aforementioned S14 and an S13. One Honda Integra Type-R with the K20A2 swap. And that's only the Japanese cars, had a number of europeans aswell! So I've been around! My idea for the 86 was to have a solid, reliable daily driver, but at the same time use it as kind of a "project car", meaning spending some money on upgrades on it along the way. I've always had a daily apart from my Japanese cars, but I don't want that anymore..
Eh, sorry about the long winded post
