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Originally Posted by Tcoat
All that said the failure rate for the actual recall issue is several decimal points away from 1% so unless forced why would anybody ever want to risk it? I know I would not have been getting it done even before we saw the repair failures start to pop up. Recalls have no deadline so if my springs broke 5 years from now I would have just taken it in and said "fix it please".
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Unfortunately they do. Our 06 Outback was recalled years ago for brake lines that rot and the fix was apparently slathering some grease on it to resist "outside elements". I didn't know that was the fix until I looked at it one day a few years later and the brake lines were weeping and badly dry rotted. I went in and asked if they could solve the problem and they told me that since the approved work was done and it was past the time limit they wouldn't touch it and that I should bring it to a brake specialist to have all of the brake lines replaced. The car has now been sitting in the driveway for almost 2 years because we can't sell it in that condition. I start it occasionally and drive it up and down our dead end street and it still runs beautifully, doesn't stop too well but otherwise I bet I could get it going without too much pain other than the nearly $2k it will cost to rebuild the brake system. Until then it sits...
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
This. If I had to do it over again, I'd probably follow this route, well except it saved me several hundred dollars because of the work I had "tacked on" that was done for cost of parts...so maybe I would have done it anyway. I'm a cheap bastard...
I did do some due diligence first through and made sure I was not the first one they had done, and that it was being done by a master mechanic at the shop.
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That's the only reason I had it done on mine. There were a bunch of maintenance things I had been putting off due to the cost. They're only charging me for parts so it saved about $1200 in labor and a few things they found while the engine was apart they are covering at no additional cost that were ticking time bombs. I thought it ran pretty well, was getting the best mpg's of the cars life, but the tech said that was because things had gotten "loose" and the engine was spinning pretty freely but one of them would have wrecked it sooner rather than later. So all in all I think (hope?) it turns out to be a good thing that I've been without my car for almost 6 weeks now.