I wonder how many Subarus are
I wonder how many Subarus are affected. Getting information out of Subaru service is like pulling teeth. In the beginning they said my oil usage was withing their acceptable parameters, and made out like my problem was a rare one. They had only had a couple of other cases where they had to replace part of the engine (a short block, being the main part of the engine ) in an attempt to resolve the problem. But as the months / years passed, there were more and more stories of other owners with exactly the same problems / complaints as mine. Hard to imagine given today's manufacturing tolerances, that possibly this problem is widespread, and may in fact affect all the affected Subaru Models. Keeping a lid on the extent of the problem could be the combined result of a few factors, the deaf ear being given by dealers, telling the owners that this is acceptable, and the owners not being informed well enough, or assertive enough to take the dealers / Subaru on over the oil use issue with their car. Also many owners could be unaware of the problem, simply because thinking they bought a new car, they may not be checking their oil levels between services, or some owners may only be doing local driving, short trips or low kilometres. My biggest disappointment is with the way Subaru are treating this problem I have been a loyal customer for many years, this being my 2nd new Forester, and I have owned 6 other Subarus before that which I bought 2nd hand. My Dad over 30 years has purchased 5 new Subarus, and two late model 2nd hand from the same Subaru dealer, and this is the way Subaru treats a loyal customer. I put all this to the dealer during the time I was lobbying them to fix my problem. Anyway, they pulled my engine completely apart to put in new piston rings last week. This is their current fix for the problem apparently. I was told that these are different to the original rings, so one can imagine that Subaru is well aware of the problem and this is a solution that they have come up with. In saying all of this I must report that my car is back at the Subaru Service this week. Since the work they did last week, engine is running normally except that at every cold start up, I now have a moderately loud knock in the engine which lasts for a few seconds and was not there before their repair. I dropped it back off yesterday and I am waiting to hear back from them.