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  1. Has anyone noticed a, (i'll call it a thump) noise coming from the drivers side of the car. I have a 2020 Premiere. It sounds like a water bottle rolling across the car and hitting the door panel. I have heard it every time I start driving, within the first few minutes. I originally thought it happened when I was turning left, hence the water bottle analogy, but it soon didn't follow that pattern and did it even when driving in a straight line. I wouldn't have brought this up into the forum, but my work car is the same model year Outback and it does the same thing. I just had the gas tank recall done on the Outback and it did it 3 times in about 6-7 minutes on the way home. Any thoughts?
  2. I think the thing you will take away from the trade to a newer model will be the transmission. I have have the luck of being employed with a company that uses Subarus as fleet vehicles so I have driven Foresters, Outbacks and Legacys from 1996 to 2020, and next month a 2022 and experienced the evolution of the CVT. As it evolved, it went from something that felt like a bad slipping clutch in a manual transmission to ones that will snap your neck back from a stop. I personally had 2010 Legacy and went to a 2020 Legacy Premium. I was expecting an even better, responsive CVT but unfortunately I was wrong. It's definitely a more sluggish CVT. I like to refer to my gas peddle as a volume control for the transmission because the more you push it the louder it gets and goes no where quick compared to the generation before. I test drove the XT and was not especially impressed with the performance of the turbo, but highly impressed with the better tuned CVT. It's more responsive and I thought shifted much better. I maybe in the minority here with my opinion, but it comes from decades of driving yearly upgrades of new Subarus.
  3. Recently had new software update added with the stop/start on the home screen. How simple would it have been to make the heated seat icon on the home screen the active app instead of going another menu deep to use. That still bugs me.
  4. Update to my new replacement head unit. I just pick it up and haven't had a chance to check on if any bugs have been worked out but the one thing I noticed instantly...it's twice as loud. At one point I had thought about getting the Fosgate amp, but now there is no need. I haven't adjusted the EQ, so not sure about the fidelity but it is so much louder than before.
  5. After driving late last night I felt I had to chime in on the headlights. I feel that they are extremely dangerous. I had to drive on a curvy mountain road and where the headlights shine is either on or off, there is no dithering or feathering off their coverage area. There is a definitive line between the bright and dark area and going around curves you cannot see areas around the oncoming road beyond where the lights immediately shine, they make you look directly in front of you and not see beyond what's not directly in front or beside you. There is no light for your peripheral vision to anticipate anything beyond the boxed area created by the lights. I hope I have been able to explain this well enough and I hope folks will see for themselves how potentially dangerous they can be.
  6. Update to my 504 upgrade...dealership replacing head unit under warranty. When I was there talked to the service writer about the updates and he had the 704 update listed as an Outback update and not the Legacy.
  7. Since my dealer installed the 504 update, the steering wheel voice command is jacked up. It does not understand my voice commands, then interrupts me when trying to do a command, then it cannot finish its request to me to repeat my command by interrupting itself several times over, then it just shuts down telling me it did not understand and to try later. The dealership tells me another update came out last Friday...anyone hear about that, because at home, OTA, shows no new updates.
  8. Long highway trips only and only when feeling lazy, anything less is an annoyance
  9. I have odd noises from the rear when going through curves that sounds like I have a few AA batteries rattling around in the spare tire well.
  10. My Legacy has the 504 update and the audio still vanished. Add to that when you shut down the car, you can't simply turn it off/on to reset the unit, you have to open and close the drivers door as well. Guess I should be happy that Subaru doesn't make you stand on your head and squawk like a chicken as well.
  11. I have an Outback base model with the 2 screens and it has blanked out both screens twice, leaving me with no functions. The dealership is replacing the unit (not the screens) under warranty. Just took a 5 hour trip in my Legacy with the 11", and it blanked out for 30 seconds at about 4 hours into the drive. The dealership is now prepared to replace it as well. Doesn't look good for these units.
  12. Driving around this evening listening to my iPod and I noticed they gave up on the music mountain icon and it now shows the song/artist artwork. Same for satellite radio.
  13. I had been in the dealership before about the infotainment center having issues and the did the update as a warranty to fix bugs.
  14. Had mine updated today...only slightly more responsive, but who wouldn't notice an upgrade from something that felt like Windows 95
  15. Has anyone else experienced what I would considering odd shifting of the CVT. I have an interstate onramp I use frequently that it happens almost every time (although it does happen elsewhere) where the transmission will shift up way too soon and way too many gears which will leave me with almost no responsivness to merge on the interstate. I will give it more gas but in typical CVT fashion there is not much response. So I will just do it myself and use the shift paddles and here where it gets worse. Its like the computer and transmission are not communicating. The car will be in 2nd, then when it should be going into 3rd it will instead shift up to 4th or 5th, then shifting down with the paddles the computer thinking its in 3rd will shift down to 2nd which makes the car brake instead of accelerate. In places other than the ramp I have let the car shift as it should, move the shifter into manual, see what gear its in, put it back in D, then paddle shift it down and almost without exception it will downshift two gears instead of one. I also drive 2020 Outbacks at work and they do the same thing.
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