[Jay161]

Hello everyone, this is my first post on here and unfortunately it's a negative one but I need to get some feedback.

My BRZ is a 2013, never had any issues except when a rodent chewed my wiring harness but that was a year ago and replaced by the dealer, no issues further. 71,000 miles, all maintaince was performed by the book. No Issues ever.

Fast forward to the end of July 2017 I'm driving to work and I hear a horrible rod knock then about 30 seconds later the car shuts off. I get towed to the dealer and they tell me I "destroyed" two bearings, I need a new short block. My extended warranty covers it after I give them my service records and now I have a brand new short block. for about 3-4 weeks now. I needed a new clutch and pressure plate also and they replaced those for just parts cost with no additional labor (thank you!). Two weeks ago I get a p000b code and the car is running intermittently, dealer replaces the OCV which after arguing I had to pay for ($170). A week later, the same issue again, now I also hear a loud rattle when accelerating (some members on here posted videos of the same sounds at the same times and said it could maybe be an exhaust leak or heat shield. The car will stall at idle after it gets hot, I stopped driving it till Friday when I can take it to the dealer.

So last Monday I missed work because at 5 am my serpentine belt snapped because the dealer/technician also forgot to tighten and/or locktite the bolts for the alternator which lead to one backing out, hitting the belt and tearing it. The technician also left a screw driver in the engine bay, never put the rubber cap back on the alternator wire (no big deal really), and wrote in pen on the strut tower "#merica" (not a big deal but you're defacing someones private property who you trust NOT to do this).

So a friend of mine is a tech at a different company (not Subaru), he said what I am thinking - should have replaced a long block because now I probably have metal fragments from the spun bearings contaminated through everything which is blocking the OCV's and affecting the CAM timing. Now I'm not a mechanic by profession but I've replaced motors in cars before when I had a few 3000gt's, motorcycles, rebuilt them, etc.. so I have a pretty good idea how things work.

Has anyone else had problems similar to these? How did you handle it with the dealer? I'm hoping the service manager (who seems sincerely apologetic) will take care of this but I think the damage has already been done.