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  1. most of the miles I had were highway driving in the 70 mph range. Didn't usually accelerate heavily. Last year or so there was less highway driving but not heavy stop and go traffic usually other than in pockets. Usually just nonhighway roads in the 30-40 range with the occasional downshift to keep the car from hitting the bottom of the hill at 60+. No telling if certain batches have issues or if they switched the factory fluid during those years or what. Just guessing. I'd certainly have them at least look at it during the "big" maintenance intervals.
  2. I wish I'd known to try the pressure sensors. But we were getting AT Temp lights and such so it probably wasn't just a pressure sensor. We ended up with the super expensive repair. Subaru and the dealer kicked in the 5k fix to cover the remaining loan on the original car, the bank and I covered the rest of it and the new car. Needless to say I will be having them check the fluids and such in this new sealed transmission. Given their willingness to at least work with us on this, if not flat out cover it, I suspect this is a known issue for them and they will likely be adjusting their servicing schedules to address it. It doesn't help me at this point, but if other people find these threads at least they can have their dealers pull the plug out and replace the fluid before they get whacked with a completely unnecessary repair bill in the thousands of dollars.
  3. Exactly. ALL of the maintenance on mine was performed at the Subaru dealer save one simple oil change. If there was something they asked me to do it got done no questions asked. If there was maintenance that should have been done that wasn't done because it wasn't listed somewhere this falls on Subaru not adding this to their maintenance schedules. Mine threw a solenoid code so most likely it's clogged with dirty fluid which probably was never checked, drained, replaced, whatever. It's listed as sealed and no service is required. Clearly this is not the case, although being sealed means you can't easily get at any filters or things like solenoids either.
  4. I'll assume you meant that IF I purchase another Subaru I should avoid any of the 1st gen CVT models. I completely agree. Other than the CD player failing and the volume controls on the steering wheel dying ( neither of which should have happened either since I don't even USE the CD player ) it's been pretty trouble free otherwise. If you were suggesting that the replacement car should have been something other than the 1st gen CVT model then I'm not sure how that could be expected since my choices were pretty much automatic if I needed to have anyone else I knew drive it. While I can somewhat agree that perhaps it's a series of bad luck. It's not as though I didn't wait a year on the first Gen CVT and check to see if there were obvious problems. The first car I just figured was a lemon and something about it was causing transmission problems. They took it back no problem. No harm, no foul, it happens. I had no reason to suspect that I'd be dealing with yet another transmission problem in a middle aged car. It's not even 4 years old, yeah there's mileage, but it's almost all highway mileage so it's not like it was constant stop and go abuse, I've never rocked the car out of a snowbank, and I've never towed anything and there's usually only 2 of us in the car so it's not like there's 800 pounds of people in the car either. Maybe I could have gone with a different make/model/transmission when they replaced it, but why would I assume I had anything other than a one off lemon? If I have to avoid entire model lines of cars based on what might have a 1st gen part in it that's not exactly a glowing endorsement of Subaru Quality. At that point, for all I know their new 2015 Impreza has some gen 1 part that fires the airbags every time I use the rear defroster and leave the turn signal on for 17 blinks. It's not a serious example, but something always has a gen 1 something in it and it's not reasonable for the customer to be forced to do that level of research. Either your product is reliable, or it isn't. For me the Subaru Legacy cars are not, or at least are not long lasting, and I don't see Subaru really standing behind their product here to show me otherwise. I'm currently firmly in the 5% of the Subaru cars sold in the last ten years that aren't still on the road. Twice.
  5. Not quite 110k on my 2011 Legacy 2i. Needs a brand new transmission. Solenoid issues. All recommended maintenance done at dealer the whole time. 7500$ repair. This was the second car from them. First car had some growling noise in the front end and they said it was a bad transmission which was replaced under warranty. It went away for a while then came back a week later. They then replaced the car. Now the new one's got shuddering and the AT Oil Temp light is on and is basically undriveable. NOT impressed with Subaru "quality" given I was expecting somewhere around 200k out of this. Not even 4 years old and it's currently worthless. I will probably never buy another Subaru after this. Two cars, and three transmissions???
  6. Too bad. I don't really want to spring for a full 2010 cupholder for a 2$ plastic ring and I don't really feel like dropping considerably more on the lighting kit when I know there's got to be part numbers out there. - S
  7. Has anyone found out the part number for the clear plastic ring? - S
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