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Originally Posted by steve99

I think you have an actual hardware problem with the camshaft actuators on your car rarther than a tune issue.

The tune may show up the issue as it likely excersises the cam actuators more then the stock tune..ie asks them to move quicker or more often

Hundreds of people run same tune without that issue.

if you were running the old V1.5 x tunes they were more agressive cam timing wise than the V2.06 tunes, but heaps of people ran that version with no issues as well.

hopefully that code will pop up on stock tune and you can get dealer to sort it out.

Also check you oil levels as the cam actuatours are driven by oil pressure.

I agree and the history of this issue runs a bit deeper than I originally explained.
When I pulled the car from storage in May, after sitting all winter, the car threw a P0017 code and went limp. The dealership replaced an OCV, a cam timing gear (which was physically broken), the ECU, did an oil change and gave it back. A quarter mile later the P0018 code. I turned around and took it back to the dealership. A second OCV, cam timing gear (which was also physically broken), another ECU, and a total of 3 weeks in the shop and all seemed well. (Techline's theory is that the car came from the factory with the broken cam sprockets, the ECU learned the original timing that way, and so it ran fine. When the car sat for the winter, sediment from the oil got picked-up when I started the car and the codes started revealing the broken sprockets).
After driving for a week with the stock tune and no codes I flashed the auto generated Stage-1 file. All was fine for a month, then the P000A. Flashed the latest v2.067, still P000A. Re-flashed the stock file, drove it for a week, got a P000C "pending" no CEL and took it to the dealership. By the time I got it to the dealership the pending code was gone. They drove it 150 miles over the next 2 weeks but no code.
Techline's position is that if there is no code, there is no problem. They don't care if I can't mod my car like everybody else. Since Subaru will no longer spend time and resources figuring out why the car is out of spec, I thought I'd reach out to Shiv to see if it could be corrected in the tune so the car doesn't go limp. So while I agree that this is very likely a electro-mechanical issue, I don't really have any other avenue. I'm reaching out to the community to see if anyone else has experienced this, or can figure a way around. Sorry for the long read, but this has been a bitch of a problem.