My opinion of Subaru’s
My opinion of Subaru’s biggest weaknesses is different; these three are why I, regrettably, won’t be buying a new Subaru:
1) Weak and easily cracked windshields ! The replacement ordeal is made far worse, (in time to repair and in tripling the $$ costs) by the necessity to recalibrate the (to me very undesirable) EYESIGHT) cameras. EYESIGHT OUT TO BE DELETEABLE.
2) CVT TRANNY is in the SUBARUs only to increase gas mileage. By design the CVT IS WEAK compared to traditional auto-trans and probably will need replacing , a MAJOR expense, before 160k miles, among its other well known shortcomings.
Aisen can supply an 8 speed AutoTrans, that competes in fuel efficiency with CVT,- similar to that used in Toyota RAV4.
3) HERE I list LAST what I believe should be
FIRST: IT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE: Subaru should install the necessary means to PREVENT CARBON BUILDUP ON INTAKE VALVES
IN ALL THEIR GDI ENGINES, rather than keep up their current practice of adding a valve flushing
operation every oil change or so to get off the hard
carbonized debris ( an approx additional $300. to every other, or so, oil change!!). The “dual injection” technology is well known and is used
successfully at Toyota, Audi, Ford so that their engines have a much easier chance at running at their peaks . And I believe Honda, on its 1.5L turbo at least, employs a less complex method to directly clean intake valves ; evidently the “direct injectors” have been moved somewhat so that each sprays the bottom of its intake valve when it is open !! I believe SUBARU HAS KNOWN of this issue for years but has decided to keep taking the
considerable $$ from the unaware customers so the engines will keep running… rather than clean up the GDI self destructive design that cheats the customers.
This should be weakness #1 to FIX.(all IMHO). And,yes, it disappoints me more than a little cause
I’d rather drive a Subaru.