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02-13-2019, 09:06 PM | #29 | |
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Ok so this same thing just happened with my car. Did the recall a couple weeks ago. Engine started rattling and losing power before shutting off completely in the middle of the road. Had it towed to the same dealer that did the recall.
They apparently spent the morning taking apart the "top" part of the engine which they say is where the recall work took place. They are now asking for my permission to take apart the bottom part. Here's the kicker: if they do this and it turns out the fault wasn't recall related, I will be on the hook for 8h of labor ($1072) CAD. Thoughts on next steps? |
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See if they can get a factory rep to authorize the additional work?
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The timing of the event clearly suggests it is from the recall work. I hope they do not pin it on you.
I would call the Corp Office and tell them that just the suggestion by the dealer that this is not from the recall work is an insult to you. (Maybe if Corp knows you are not going to take this lying down the Corp Office will work things out with the dealer in your favor) |
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http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...30#post3188530 please leave an entry here if you have time and had engine failure shortly after the recall work was performed.
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I've always hated boxer 4 cylinders. Overly complex for what they are. It just didn't make sense to me the design. Like the FA20: Two heads, the block is two pieces, 8 injectors, 4 camshafts. All those mechanical parts for a measly 200fwhp that a k20 did 10+ years earlier. The longer I owned the car and finding about all the short comings of the FA20, the more I hated the engine. I love EVERYTHING about the car except the engine. If I were to buy another frs, I only want the shell. The FA20 just isn't great. So glad I got rid of my frs now knowing out this recall.
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To be fair subaru is already in the midst of loosing 2 class action law suits for motor related problems right now. Nearly every single car they have made for the last 7-8 years has recalls out on it. Saying it's voluntary is a little misleading, especially since they knew about the problem 6 years ago. My resale value now alone and the 3500 bucks that it will probably take off the car in the end shows subaru is doing us no favors. In my opinion It was a very low move how this recall was done and if you think subaru is just an unfortunate bystander I have to chuckle. In terms of people blowing the issue out of proportion, there is a reason subaru is spending literally 500 million dollars to do this. They have no other choice. This failed recall issue is completely legit. In the past the forum has been oh 5 guys engines for a range of years fail, and issues get blown out whack, and everybody knows about it. This is 100% not the same situation as when there are 40 people with failures right away all coming to the forum and posting. You have to think how many people aren't on the forums and who have no idea about it. Especially if you expand that issue to all subarus. How many other model valve recall motors have failed? I think the reality is subaru figured out by the time you hit 6 digits of mileage and a few more years the failure rate was going to be extreme. Otherwise they would have handled it case by case you'd think. Anyways when you have 4 years worth of posts and a handful of failures over that time, thats how things get skewed and issues seem bigger. When you have a crapload of people posting in a very short amount of time and you have new ones each day that says A LOT. |
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The 4 years worth of posts have nothing to do with the spring recall. They were for oil starvation and if you read more of what I have said you would see I have called that issue for 3 years. At no point did I say the issue with the recall failures was not legit. You have jumped on a post with both feet before reading on for the updates and other posts. Don't take one post out of context.
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Probably waited to see what sort of failure rate the springs had in the field before acting. There was likely a threshold that they crossed where they felt it was no longer acceptable.
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