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Old 05-17-2017, 03:38 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by neilr View Post
The latest iteration of the BRZ has me considering getting back into an 86, but...

My wife's 2009 Impreza recently needed to have its head gasket (or is that plural?) replaced. It has, maybe, 80K miles on it. Looking around other Subaru forums and talking with local mechanics, this appears to be a known Subaru problem.

My question: do the 86s also have this issue?
I have read a couple of hundred thousand posts and do not recall ever seeing one single blown head gasket on a stock engine. Different head and block than the ones you have read about.
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