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So the plot thickens:
After I got the car back, the fourth gear is fixed, and with the new fuel pump the engine does sound a lot better. In the cold the chirp was less present, but seemed to come through as more of an asthmatic wheeze, so now the car is quieter than I ever remember it being.
HOWEVER
They somehow managed to break something in my climate control ducts. Now, when you move the direction of the air to 'feet mode' (I have the manual climate controls) It's like it's blocked or put together wrong. It gets really loud like a blocked vacuum cleaner, and air is coming out at the seams; a little comes out at the feet, a little on head, a little on defroster, because there's so much goddamn pressure in there.
I took it back into them and they just said "we didn't work on that we just did the transmission and the fuel pump"
And I was like "I'm not questioning what you did, I'm questioning what you accidentally broke while doing those things"
I argued with them for like an hour, and they started getting real pissy with me. They said that 'air is coming out we don't understand what you're talking about this seems normal' but it is so very clearly not normal. The day after I got it back I had it on full blast fan full blast feet on max heat and my toes were still freezing off, you couldn't feel a damn thing coming out of those vents.
What the actual f--k? I had that floor heat working fine literally the day before I took it into them, and it is very clearly not working now.
I figured they must have pinched or unhooked/re-hooked-up-wrong the cable that goes to the actuating flap or something but they just kept swearing up and down that they didn't, when I plainly know, having not been born yesterday that something they did caused this to happen, like something got disconnected and reconnected wrong.
AND THATS NOT ALL
The transmission does shift 'better' but the thing is it still bangs into most of the gears, I get some sync slippage going into EVERY SINGLE gear just like it was when I got it. I suppose you could say it's 'within tolerance' since it's nowhere near as bad as it was before, but I have checked again that my clutch is adjusted right, and I drive like a GRANDPA. I've tried single clutching, double clutching, shifting at all kinds of different speeds and it is only happy if I just bang it into gear or double clutch perfectly, even then I can feel it smacking the sync out of the way really hard. Everything else is a total no go. All of my other cars with manuals (of which there are a GREAT many) shift beautifully. I'm borderline outraged that a brand new transmission could feel like crap compared to my beaters let alone the BMW.
THIS is how the problem forms in the first place. little incremental wear that slowly adds up and then hits exponential growth as it gets worse and worse. I am NOT looking forward to putting in a third transmission at 70k. I didn't pay a good sum of money for this car to replace the transmission every 25k miles.
I think I'm going to drive it as is for a while, and if the transmission or the fuel pump start f--king up again, I'm absolutely going to do an LS2 swap because this is getting embarassing. I just don't want to have to deal with crappy transmissions and fuel pumps etc.
WHY the f--k did subaru let toyota do ANYTHING with the drivetrain. WHY
I hope you are all having a better time than I am.
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