DawgiehTom

Hello everyone, In an interesting situation right now and would love as much advice as I can get. So I am drove up this Thanksgiving on a 6-hour/393 mile trip for Thanksgiving with the in-laws in my 2006 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Limited Sedan. Originally purchased at 161,150 miles for $4.7k, head gaskets just got replaced so it seemed like a good deal at the time. Now at 171,300 miles as of typing this message. At 373 miles into this 393 mile trip, my car decided to throw a check-engine light and stall out. I attempted to accelerate, but it wouldn't go past 4000 rpms and I started to slow down. Thankfully we were able to slow down and get onto the side of the road. My wife noticed a smell in the car like a burning of some type. I pop the trunk and notice that either the Alternator is smelling, or it is coming from the little puddle of dark liquid below the alternator. Either way, I don't check the dipstick because I thought it was an entirely different issue. We leave the car on the highway and get the in-laws to get us to safety. On Thanksgiving day we take a peek at it before Thanksgiving dinner, I forgot my BlueDriver in the car and decide to see what codes it threw. We manage to turn it on after it struggles to start and it makes this gnarly knocking sound. It manages to stay around 1000 rpm, but it is obviously knocking very loudly. After approximately 5 minutes, it decides to shut off on its own. All local repair places are closed so we decide to leave it another day . (See link for a video of what it sounds/looks like). The code it read initially were P0607 P0028 P0026 P0304 P0303 Apparently that's a bad mistake since the State police decided to tow it regardless. We got it from the towing company and they tell us that they investigate why cars are on the side of the road. This is when they tell us they checked the dipstick when they popped the trunk and said there was no oil on the dipstick. I purchased the car with an oil change from the used car dealership and did one at 165,500 by myself according to guides online and the manual with high mileage synthetic oil. Somehow in the 5,000-6,000 miles that I drove, it managed to burn all the oil I put into the car. We got it towed to a dealership for an initial inspection since everything was still closed since it is the Friday after Thanksgiving. We gave them the keys and they told us they would call us earlier to take a look at it. We got a call from them later on in the day and they told us the whole entire engine was seized and a new short block was needed. (Obviously costing much more than the car is worth). They are willing to keep the car in the lot for as long as I need to make a decision of trading it in or attempting to repair it somewhere else. Today we decided to take all my personal belongings from the car. My father-in-law was curious to see if adding oil will make it stay on for longer. After adding the oil and struggling a little bit, it manages to crank and start after pumping the gas a multitude of times. It makes the same horrendous knocking sound that it made before, but it wasn't turning off on its own quite yet. We decided to run codes first and it only returned one P0607 We decided to put it in drive and move it to see if it would limp home, it managed to move a little bit, but died when we tried to press the gas any further. We put it back in neutral and moved it back. Now we're here. We're obviously looking for something else in the meantime, but is this car fixable at all? Or did I just manage to buy a lemon from a used car dealership. I'm hoping we can repair this car for a reasonable amount, but I'm not sure if the dealerships "seized" engine claim is even correct at this point. I'm open to any and all advice at this point. Thanks for the read.

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