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Originally Posted by 22 BRZ

Welp, you sure can't see much from underneath with the pan flange being so wide, but the one area I could feel seemed to have more squeeze out than I'm used to seeing in my line of work (which is quite different to automotive, so my opinion probably doesn't mean much on that). I do think that this is one of those times Id rather the sealant was weighted towards the outside than the inside. At least then the worst thing would be an oil leak, which I could catch...

I thought about bringing this up with my dealer to see if they want to take a preventative look at it. However, since my car is exclusively road driven (and not very aggressively), I think I'd be at a very low risk of failure, and I'm not sure what I'd hope to accomplish...

I think @Petah78 makes a very good point. There isn't really a way to head this off. Just have to drive it, and let the chips fall where they may. And if my car is fairly gently driven, and I get a failure outside of warranty, and iot isn't covered by a TSB, that just means an excuse for the wife and I to EJ or LS swap it (not serious, but also very serious!)

Originally Posted by timurrrr

Purely speculating: it's possible that the QC hold was in fact related and it was a stop production / stop sale order due to this discovered.
But after doing their bean counting they've decided the cost/risk is such that it's better for them to just sell the cars with the known manufacturing problem that might affect only a small % of a small total volume of cars produced, than to issue a recall and get bad PR.

Maybe they miscalculated ("My risk was calculated, but boy am I bad at math").

Or maybe they correctly guestimated that many of the early cars went to "enthusiasts" who are going to drive just hard enough to be able to deny warranty if needed; and the oil blockage/starvation is so much more likely to affect people who stay at the rev limiter for extended periods of time.

Also, a lot of early GR86s were automatics, and the AT doesn't like to go all the way to the rev limiter unless you're flooring it.



I know people who got their GR86's in December.



You're assuming that all early cars had the same problem. It's possible that the earliest BRZs didn't have the problem, and then some robot got its calibration messed up, or they've "optimized" something incorrectly.

The assumption that it’s will only be an issue with hard use and tracked cars is a bit of a trap.
Oil starvation due to blocked passages is every bit as possible sitting at an idle or just driving casually.
It isn’t as if the track driving is the cause.