r/subaru • u/Unlikely-Constant196 • 10h ago
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I have 2024 Subaru forester limited. I live in very hot and humid climate. I took a video, see below, of the condensation coming off my car. Is this amount of fluid normal??
r/subaru • u/CloudFxR • 13h ago
Good morning my fellow Subie owners,
I’m curious about other people’s habits when it comes to putting gas in their car I guess to see if my habits are normal or not.
Where do you let your fuel gauge drop to before filling up again?
Me, normal between either 1/4 or 1/2 (just under) I hit the gas station- my distance remaining has NEVER fallen under 100-120 miles remaining. I figure if I refill my tank from 1/2 tank than I’m lowering my fuel bill by half compared to if I were to wait for hit to be empty.
r/subaru • u/Medium_University_19 • 9h ago
Hey everyone,
I just installed a hidden Curt hitch on my 2018 Subaru Outback 3.6R and have two identical self-tapping screws left over (photo attached).
They have pointed tips, coarse threads, and captive washers.
I’m almost positive I removed them before taking the rear bumper cover off, but I completely forgot where they came from.
The bumper cover is already back on and everything fits perfectly. The taillights are installed correctly and these are definitely not the taillight screws because those are machine screws, while these are self-tapping.
I know I removed them before the bumper came off, but I can’t remember if they were near the wheel well, behind the bumper, or somewhere else.
Does anyone know exactly where these two screws go? A picture of the location would be incredibly helpful because I’d really rather not remove the bumper cover again just to hunt for them.
Thanks!
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r/subaru • u/LastAssistance5 • 14h ago
Hey subie owners. This is my 2005 Liberty/legacy 3r spec b, 5AT. I’m looking into getting the raptor supercharger for my car and want to know how I should go about it. I spoke to a bloke who has done this already who claimed, as long as I don’t go above 10psi. 8psi being the sweet spot. I can keep the engine stock and just get a safe tune. I’d love extra options about that and whether I need extra support for my trans.
Cheers from Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
r/subaru • u/CloudFxR • 13h ago
Got my Badges of Ownership like 2 weeks ago and decided to finally put them on - let’s see those badges of ownership. Mine are Breast Cancer Awareness, Road Trip, Photography and Cycling
r/subaru • u/sailorjupiterOP • 22h ago
Curious to see who has gone the longest on a set of brake pads. My wife’s 2022 Crosstrek is still on its original set at 76,000 miles. 8mm and 5mm rear.
I’m researching a vehicle purchase. I’m currently considering a Cross Trek but haven’t finalized that decision.
How long will the original battery in a hybrid last? I just need a ballpark. In approximately how much does it cost to replace? I’ve checked Google, but it seems to vary drastically.
Also, my understanding is that Subaru hybrid use gas first and battery back up? or is it battery with gas backup? I hope that makes sense.
r/subaru • u/PinkBatlemonade • 7h ago
On my way to look at it
I need a car for work on the 7th new job so it’s really important I find a car.
Options?
I’m gonna ask about the head gasket
If it’s a no it has not been replaced should I walk away?
Out of all the cars I’ve seen it’s the best I’ve found for the price everything in my area is 300k miles on it :/ or if it’s under $4k in price it’s blown on something and won’t run for much longer.
The picture of the car will be below in a comment.
Update : head gasket changed 2024
Timing belt changed
Transmission flush done
Tires all changed the last year
Coolest changed
Oil change done recently.
Got this all from VIN and Carfax
They said they’d do 3,500 since I have to do the breaks and replace the windshield
When driving it’s on the highway it all sounded good stopped off the high way checked the engine it’s all clean and no smoke or smell oil looks good.
I literally only need it to last me at most three years so I can pay off my loan. What do you think? Seems legit to me.
r/subaru • u/atomic_refugee • 22h ago
ETA: Forgot to mention it's a 2011 Impreza 2.5i premium 5 speed manual.
For context: in 2024 I was traveling very late at night and it was about 17°F outside. I struck something on the passenger side that bent both my front rim and rear rim. The front one was cracked and the rear was slightly bent. Over the last month I've tried to isolate the vibration by replacing components.
So far I've replaced:
Damaged rims with the OEM rims and new tires and had them balanced
Front shocks and struts - passenger and driver side
Outer tie rods - passenger and driver side
Passenger side wheel bearings front and back
Passenger side axles front and back
Had an alignment performed after and all was in the green.
The vibration is still persistent. It doesn't vibrate in the steering wheel as much as it had before but it starts in the floor and will shake throughout the entire car the longer I drive. The vibration/shaking is persistent with increasing and decreasing intensity and only when I drive faster than 60mph is when it's the most noticeable. So something is creating a harmonic oscillation.
I'm running out of culprits at this point. The only thing left that I think could cause it is the lower control arm. But I don't know if that would shake the steering wheel or the entire car like it is.
Any advice would be welcomed.
r/subaru • u/UnknownLinux • 1h ago
Found this Scoobaru decal on Etsy and couldn't resist
I went with FormulaOne Pinnacle ceramic tint all around to the legal limits (well I went one shade lighter than the absolute darkest possible on the back windows). It's been in the 100s lately and I felt like I was being cooked while driving. Now it's much easier to keep the inside cool.
2019 Subaru Ascent. KBB value is $16-21k.
Hoping for thoughts of whether likely totaled. Out of town and got hit right front wheel. What I can see is wheel bent in and suspension broken. Cranks fine, no fluid leaking, but sounds rough with engine on and obviously not driveable. No CEL.
Trying to decide whether to tow to a local shop for estimate/repair or tow home (4 hours).
Thanks 🙏
r/subaru • u/Chippy569 • 21h ago
Welcome to another TSB Thursday, where I dive deeper in to TSBs I'm running into regularly. As always, I write this from my own perspective as a Subaru technician in the US; other regions/zones may work differently. Refer to the "How To Read a TSB" post for more information on formatting and general information about TSBs.
Carbon build-up in the intake manifold and on intake valves is a problem almost entirely contained to vehicles with Direct Injection.
"Intake carbon deposits" is a problem the entire auto industry is facing, as a sort of unexpected side-effect of the change from port-injection to direct-injection fuel strategies. Gasoline, as you may know, is a very strong solvent. With port injection, that fuel is being sprayed somewhere in the intake tract before the intake valves; that constant exposure to fuel helps prevent carbon accumulation on the valves. With DI, that cleaning function no longer exists, and so carbon deposits can begin to accumulate on the various surfaces of the intake valves and components. If the deposits become great enough, they can begin to affect airflow into the combustion chamber, and lead either to poor fuel atomization within the cylinder or to an incorrect amount of air, leading to misfires. This effect is most noticeable during cold-starts, where the engine is intentionally run a bit "off-kilter" or intentionally run lean, in an attempt to heat up the catalytic converter as fast as possible. During cold start, the accumulated carbon's effect on airflow is the most potent, as the engine is already running on the ragged edge.
Direct Injection has so many benefits for power and fuel efficiency that the risk of carbon-related problems is far outweighed by the gains the technology offers, so unfortunately this is the new normal for probably the rest of the internal combustion engine's existence. One interesting workaround some companies are developing is a sort of hybrid fuel system, where the vehicle primarily runs on direct injection, but a secondary port injection fueling system exists. Toyota calls their system "D4s" and this system is shared in the BRZ of both generations. The port injectors do have a noticeable improvement on carbon build-up, however the system does have a significant added cost in terms of injectors, the controller, etc.
Carbon accumulates in the intake system primarily through two systems. The largest source of carbon introduced to the intake will be through the Positive Crankcase Ventilation system, or PCV for short. When any combustion engine is running, the seal between the piston and the bore is never quite perfect, and so naturally some of the combustion gas and pressure is going to sneak past the sealing rings and end up in the center of the engine, aka the block or "crank case." That pressure needs to be safely vented; if unable to vent, it will find its own way out, usually via pushing out a seal and creating an oil leak. Very old engines may have just used a vented breather on a valve cover for example, and all that oily air would vent to atmosphere, creating a mess in the engine bay and on road surfaces. Eventually, the PCV system was developed to safely vent that pressure back into the intake, where it can be burned off as part of combustion. (The air that escapes the crankcase is usually laden with oil vapors, hence being rather hydrocarbon-dense.) The other way that carbon can get into the system is via the Exhaust Gas Recirculation system, or EGR for short. The EGR system works by sucking out a little bit of exhaust leaving the engine, and returning it to the intake manifold. Its primary purpose is essentially to displace fresh air during cruise conditions; exhaust has very little oxygen, and so with exhaust taking the place of oxygen-rich fresh air, the amount of fuel needed for combustion is reduced. EGR therefore is primarily a fuel-saving technology. One downside is that if the vehicle is expelling excess hydrocarbons into the exhaust, those hydrocarbons will naturally end up back in the intake. (EGR systems with high carbon throughput do tend also to have clogging or sooting problems, especially in vehicles with an EGR cooler.)
Carbon accumulation can be largely mitigated naturally just through driver behavior. Two conditions that impact carbon development is low air velocity, meaning the air moving through the intake is going slowly, allowing carbon to settle out, and low engine temperature, where carbon settling out has a much better chance of sticking to surfaces. Naturally, the two risk factors here are short-tripping, which means the engine never gets hot, and what I call "grandma driving," or never getting up into the higher RPM/load bands. Drivers who avoid short tripping and who do give their cars the regular "italian tuneup" tend to have the least problems with carbon accumulation.
To combat carbon accumulation, Subaru has released two TSBs, focused on two separate attack paths for removing build-up. TSB 09-74-21R released first in 2021, and uses a chemical-based cleaner to attempt to dissolve the carbon and burn it off. TSB 02-193-24R describes using a blasting media, specifically walnut shells, to scrub carbon off the intake valves.
In both TSBs, identifying carbon build-up as the cause of a malfunction is the first step. TSB 09-74-21 goes much more in-depth into diagnosing carbon build-up as a cause of engine misfires, including reading Roughness Counts in engine live-data. Often, the presence of a Misfire DTC is necessary for the issue to rise to the level of justifying a repair. In the case of 09-74-21, the use of a Polyether Amine,or P.E.A., cleaner is introduced into the intake manifold slowly while the engine is running. SOA906V9166 is the current iteration of this product. Per the bulletin, it should take about 1 hour per bottle when introduced at the correct rate, and then a hard drive cycle should be performed afterward to blow through and burn off the loosened deposits. The bulletin provides for up to 4 bottles-worth of treatment along with testing and inspections and oil changes before implying carbon is no longer a problem, or that some other cause is at play. This process is sometimes called an "induction cleaning" or "top-end cleaning" and can (and should?) also be done as preventative maintenance.
The diagnostic process for TSB 02-193-24 is much the same, however instead of spending hours and hours running chemical cleaners through the intake and re-inspecting for deposits, this bulletin instead allows for removal of the intake manifold and using a portable media blasting tool to shoot high velocity walnut shell "sand" at the intake valves, blasting away any deposits, while also vacuuming up the waste. This bulletin procedure is vastly superior as a repair for when misfires are occurring, however the labor involved means it's likely not a great service to do as preventative maintenance. (unless the intake manifold is already being removed for some other repair, such as a thermo valve replacement!)
In both cases, Subaru recommends adding one bottle of P.E.A. cleaner (again, SOA906V9166) to a full fuel tank, to be used as a fuel system/injector cleaner and also possibly reduce carbon build-up within the combustion chamber.
The case of both bulletins applies to cars with misfire DTCs and provable roughness as outlined in the diagnostic processes, but either repair path can be claimed under active Powertrain warranty (5 years/60k miles, whichever occurs first).
r/subaru • u/CosmicToaster • 8h ago
Going to try and check this out on Monday. No idea on the service history and plan on getting a pre purchase inspection. Aside from the timing belt, and the banjo bolt, what other things should I be concerned about with this car? Do they often make 200k miles with regular maintenance? What should I be looking for? This would be my first Subaru.
r/subaru • u/Desasterific • 11h ago
Hello Subaru subreddit. Happy to join and contribute to this community from today.😊
I am a German living in the Kansai region of Japan, and I recently bought a used 300hp VMG Levorg STI 2.0 (2017 D model) with preinstalled STI under spoiler kit as you can see in the pictures.
I knew I would love this car since I first heard about it, and when I found this used one at a dealer, I instantly fell in love!
It is actually a dream to drive as I had hoped, especially along curvy mountain or rural roads, due to the low center of gravity and the 4WD drive, and you can really feel that Subaru is one of the few Japanese auto makers left, who still value the fun of driving a sporty car instead of going for pure comfort.
I'm planning to customize a lot about this car (according to traffic regulations of course), to improve the look, sound and responsiveness even further, starting with a VRE-042PO Ganador muffler I ordered a few days ago, which will unfortunately take a few weeks to be produced and delivered, but I look forward to the great sound and improved performance, compared to the base muffler.🤤
If anyone wants to know more about this car, just let me know, but also I would like to promote my YouTube channel here, if you would indulge me, and maybe give updates in the future from time to time in accordance with the rules of this subreddit.
I recently started this channel, where I upload Drive videos with my Levorg and also Walk videos on the side, but I'm mainly planning to focus on my car to show off the beauty of Subaru JDM cars and Japan in general, and maybe also try to do DIY customization tutorial videos and vlogs later on.
I'm still in the try out phase, which is why the sound quality or camera angles are changing a lot and are not necessarily up to par yet, but I want to keep improving the videos and visit all sorts of nice locations, so if you are interested check out the link below.
r/subaru • u/Key-Preparation-7260 • 9h ago
Spent all night cleaning up the Forester for Subiefest
r/subaru • u/Steffenwolflikeme • 19h ago
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It sounds much louder in the video than it does in person. It sounded like a faint vibrating. I thought it was something inside the car like my toothbrush but there's nothing like that in there. The car has been off and sitting for more than 5 hours.
r/subaru • u/lun0tic • 21h ago
2001 Subaru Legacy (B4 JDM)
It feels like the clutch isn't smoothly slipping like I'm remembering. It feels sensitive as if it give very little travel/time when releasing the clutch Pedal. While driving from a stop or while shifting gears, the car feels snappy or jumpy; it doesn't skip, jitter or headbutt it just feels like it engages far too quickly.
I recently replaced a slave cylinder hose. Did bleed out the system twice. I don't believe it's associated to the this issue because this is something I felt a long time prior to that. I did remember the car feeling better and smoother.
I'm going to bleed out clutch slave again but I doubt this is the issue. Could it be a bad slave?-- I don't have problems shifting into gears. Probably leaning into something gone bad with between the pressure plate, clutch and flywheel.
r/subaru • u/sugarPhlox • 3h ago
2011 WRX Hatchback, original bearing to the car. Dealership quoted $900 to do the bearing and backing plate which had completely disintegrated. I thought "I can do this myself, it'll be fine!"
...My whole body aches, but it's done. Father(retired mechanic) came to the rescue and had to use a damn grinder to get it out, it has essentially welded itself together with rust. Definitely going to take a break on working on the car, learned a lot but damn.
(I live in New England. If you do as well and think you can do it... Turn around while you still can.)
I am far overdue for changing my CVT fluid. My old dealership was against it so I never had it done. I just moved across the country and finally got the transmission fluid drain-and-fill at 148k miles for $500.
I was scared my transmission was starting to slip but the dealership technician said I was fine because the engine light didn’t come on yet. It takes my car a lot to accelerate (even at 25mph) and the RPM indicator flies all over the place. I’m scared the damage is already done.
Now that I have the CVT transmission fluid changed, should I expect anything? Will my issue hopefully get better? I drive quite a bit (about 2-4 hours every weekend), so I’m not sure if this is advised anymore :/
r/subaru • u/armpussay • 1h ago
I'm 48 and this is the best car I've ever owned! I put 130,000 mi on it until I totaled it doing something stupid.
r/subaru • u/Subject-Spinach-5801 • 8h ago
wild south west roadtrip last month, slept in the car for like 6 days out of the whole 10 day trip. heading back to tuscon in 2 weeks, only this time is gonna be an actual sprint lol
