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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
And the recall corrected their mistake.
What you are saying is similar to when I was driving home from work and someone pulled out in front of me and wrecked my car. Obviously, its my fault because I left at the time I did. Had I left before or after by a minute, the accident wouldn't have happened.
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There’s no mistake on your part in choosing to leave when you did. There is a mistake that Toyota/Subaru made in designing the valve train the way they did, which they‘ve admitted to.
I will add one thing. If in some theoretical world Subaru/Toyota has simply paid owners a fair price to replace their valve springs, I’d be less inclined to blame them for the failed repairs since owners could choose whether or not to do the repair, choose the shop they wanted to make the repair, and would have leverage over the shop as a paying customer. But Subaru/Toyota instead used a recall (mandatory in CA) and forced owners to go through their dealerships for the repairs (obviously to their own financial benefit). At that point, they took on more responsibility that the repairs be done properly.