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Originally Posted by Tcoat
And we also have no idea the number of successfully repaired springs so the failure rate may be 1%, 10% or 90%. The lack of data works both ways and to assume that the 40 reports of failure we do know about represent the majority is probably way off base.
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We know there were more failures from the recall work than from the bad springs, that's a certainty.
I'm not going to search it now, but Subaru claimed something like 11 failures of valve springs had occurred, and they were doing the recall out of an "abundance of caution". Fair enough, good intention, but since the recall has started, we know of a few dozen vehicles that have had engine failures shortly after the work was done.
The failure rate of the recall work is higher than the failure rate of the valve springs. Clear problem there.