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Originally Posted by BRZnut
We have seen failures on this forum with non-modified engines. This forum likely represents a small fraction of owners. So, I wonder how many failures have occurred since 2013 that we never heard about. It could be significant. Only Subaru/Toyota know for sure.
As time goes on if we see the dealers fixing these engines more willingly than they did at first, I believe that will be a signal that Subaru is realizing there is a design issue with this engine. But of coarse they will never tell you that.
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Taking the number of people on here and the known number of unmodified failures (if we believe all the stories) we have a failure rate of somewhere around 1%. If we consider this a representative number of all the cars out there then there is no reason to run around screaming the sky is falling. This example seems to be a one off and if it was rampant we would know by now since there are loads of them running around out there with way more than 60K on the clock. I know you have flowed these failures closely but so have I and in the last year they have dropped off considerably. Most of the issues were 13s and it is starting to look like the ones that are going to fail have. The situation is improving not declining as the miles build up.