Stock Engine Failure

[clintavo]

Originally Posted by Bristecom

From the sounds of it, when you had your accident, the radiator hose was bent/loosened either by the impact or by the body shop when they replaced the bumper or whatever was damaged. As a result, the coolant system may have lost pressure and caused the engine to overheat. When that happens, the engine blocks do tend to warp and need resurfacing. Unfortunately, this is all indirectly due to your little crash. The shop and dealer are also rather incompetent for not noticing or fixing that problem while they had it. But this issue at least sounds like it has nothing to do with the car's design.

This. The exact same thing happened to me 10 years ago in an SR20DE Nissan. Radiator hose popped off on the freeway, and I immediately pulled over. Once it was refitted, filled, and bled, it was discovered that the head gasket had blown from overheating. I replaced the engine.
There is no reason to get a 2014. Just think of the sales tax that you will never recover in addition to the massive hit from depreciation. Thousands wasted. I would try to coerce SOA into giving a 100k warranty at a reduced price.

[Annahra]

Thank you all so much! Lots to think on today before the sales guy calls me back! I guess my biggest concern is will the engine be the same, and will I be in worse shape with depreciation in the future with the engine work since the dealership now isn't considering that and a dealership in the future will. Right now I can walk away from the car without a loss (other than of course the last 18 mo. of payments, lol). I'm glad to hear the majority opinion is that it's not the car's fault (also will make note I need a new body shop on the future).

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[SirBrass]

Originally Posted by ZionsWrath

Op what do you do? Id probably not run this car if i was puttting 1000 miles a week

Why not? It's a perfectly comfortable car when driven normally. It's a bit rough when driving hard and fast, but so is any performance car. For a sports car, this one has very polite road manners.

[Annahra]

I read Zion's post to mean my exact car and not the model, but maybe I misunderstood. I am a retail store manager and I have about a 25 mi. commute, plus quarterly road trips to visit family (normal weekly mileage about 300). The car is actually really nice for my commute, especially compared to the Genesis 2.0t coupe I traded in.

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[Scenic Driver]

Originally Posted by Annahra

Are there other high mileage cars with no issues?

I bought mine at the end of Feb 2013, I have 34k miles including 6 track days and have had 0 issues. I drive it 120 miles a day.

As far as the engine goes, there's no reason to think it won't be the same after a rebuild unless the people doing the work are incompetent. Also I would not assume this will happen again, if it were a common thing there would be tons of threads on here about it.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Annahra

I had some front end work done about this time last year (my only accident ever--bad visibility on a snowy night), but it was 100% cosmetic, no mechanical work.

Just a word of warning, simply because it's a "minor, cosmetic" accident doesn't mean there aren't any damages.

The AC condenser and radiator on this car sits below/in front of the normal area for the core support for most other cars, and there's really not much room to move around once it's been hit. Looking at the top hose, even the radiator cap was mounted in a location that is an engineering compromise.

What I'm saying is this: a very minor accident on this car in the front can easily result in a lot of damage that is both visible and hidden. It's very much in hindsight but looking at this car vs. a Toyota Camry (for example), it's no wonder why so many cars have huge damage from accidents.

-alex

Also: some guy in SoCal has over 55-60K on his 2013.

[Annahra]

Well, I decided trading it in was the right decision for me. Dealer is giving me $21K on my trade (I owe $20.8) and the 2014 at about $100 over invoice as near as I can figure, plus the Subaru rep I've been talking to is giving me the 6 yr./80K mi. extended warranty for free ($100 deductible version). My payment will actually go down because of lower int rates now but of course I basically leased the current one for 18 mo. At least I'm finally getting the color I originally wanted! Thanks again everyone for the input.

[chas3wba0]

Congrats, always good to get a new car all over again!

[JS + BRZ]

Originally Posted by Annahra

Well, I decided trading it in was the right decision for me. Dealer is giving me $21K on my trade (I owe $20.8) and the 2014 at about $100 over invoice as near as I can figure, plus the Subaru rep I've been talking to is giving me the 6 yr./80K mi. extended warranty for free ($100 deductible version). My payment will actually go down because of lower int rates now but of course I basically leased the current one for 18 mo. At least I'm finally getting the color I originally wanted! Thanks again everyone for the input.

Congrats man.

[Annahra]

Originally Posted by chas3wba0

Congrats, always good to get a new car all over again!

Originally Posted by JS + BRZ

Congrats woman.

Thanks I'm really excited about picking it up tomorrow. Might shed some tears over the old one though, especially if it's in pieces when I go to clean it out. Poor car.

[JS + BRZ]

Damn. Congrats woman! haha Post some of the pics later

[Annahra]

Ommgggg I had the Forester for two weeks and I forgot how much fun this car is to drive! Also haven't had my summer tires since November, lol. I had to take it on a 30 min curvy road detour on the way home. My poor old car was sitting on the lot with an empty engine bay, part ETA isn't until sometime next week.

[Turkish]

WRB ftw!

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[samisons]

Originally Posted by Turkish

The dealers know less about these cars than we do, so it is unlikely that the dealer is hiding anything from you. Most likely that will be shipping the affected parts to their engineers in Japan to reverse engineer what happened to your engine and it will either come back as changes in the production line or as a service bulletin or both. That is at least what my dealer told me regarding past issues I have had. I found that at least believable.

So true man at my dealer I'm the first Fr-s to have any issues