Littleted

think he means he filled it up a week ago and added 1 LT, bit if it was as you said Urban it would have been in long before if it was mine.

Most have shafted after service and just drunk the oil.

rob84

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thats gotta be a typo, Otherwise that equates to 27.71 hr's. half a weeks work to strip it out

chopperman

Yeah, i thought that was very steep. When i was in the same boat i had to sign for £612 for the strip down.

DM1

Has anyone had failure on a WRX yet?

GordonC

Not on mine. 3 years & 35k miles under the belt with PPP. Continue to keep fingers crossed as I'd be stuffed of it did go pop!

DM1

Only 17k on mine since 09 with a JGM map on it. But that's what I a worried about if it goes pop.

Streetracersti

Date bought: october 2009
Mileage: 40k
Date of failure: march 2012
Outcome: Piston on cylinder 2 Cracked without damaging Bores, also Headgasket Failure on cylinder 1-3

PPP been fitted at 7k

No warranty on engine So Built my own Forged 2.5, with stronger big ends, mahle rods , and cosis headgaskeds

Been told on stronger pistons shouldn't expect any probs any more

Subaru should take some action with this new 2.5 - very rarely hear about 2.0 problems

Littleted

What would you class as hard driving. Thanks

Streetracersti

Don't worry about fuel gauge , foot down wherever reasonable possible , 4k+ on rev counter , track days ,rally days

I've try to use this car as been designed to use

Littleted

Always super unleaded or did you just throw anything in

Not too bad then 40k considering the work it did

Streetracersti

Always on V-Power

About mileage - 43k exactly Even guys in the garage said that engine have done really well

rb5 286

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another one gone

330S covered 35k miles

piston 2 / rings failed

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

FFS. Nice one Subaru.

Dave T-S

You can add another to the list:

My June 2010 330R (STi UK limited edition, with the Prodrive Pack), 33k miles, will be having its engine pulled out on Tuesday. A compression test was done on it this morning and no 4 cylinder is only half the compression of the other three

Car is completely standard and unmodified. Never been on track, not driven bouncing off the rev limiter, wasn't using any oil.

P1Fanatic

Damn thats not good. Dave T-S thats a blast from the past! I remember you from my earliest Scooby days when I was still living in Cambridge

Dave T-S

I remember you too

I still lurk occasionally

Littleted

its worrying isnt it, hope whatevers was done on the new saloon has fixed whatever it is

:/

P1Fanatic

It was one of the deciding factors in putting me off the STi and going for an RS in the end.

kev m

Any news yet?

goram

And me turning to Alfa. It was a case of head and heart, and head won and I went to Alfa, which is a strange one!!!

Still dip and in and out of scoobynet though, and part of me still wonders...

joz8968

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Out of the frying pan.............?

P1Fanatic

Mine was the opposite. WRX STi Hatch was the heart and RS the head. Ringland issues, high RFL, killer depreciation and limited 2nd hand supply of hatches made me choose with my head for once

mickp

iTrader: (1)

Sold mine after a good 4 years of use. Still makes my pulse rise every time I hear of another failure though.

Subaru have lost so many of there ex die hards, there loss I suppose

honeybadger

ye, they shot themselves nicely in the foot. here in SA, they blame the low octane(95RON) for the failure, but clearly they fail everywhere 'rund the world. Even where 98 and higher octanes are available. What's astonishing though is how arrogant Subaru are by not fixing the issue...

STI330S

People, add my 330s (39K) to the list. Yes 3 weeks or so ago the engine management light came on and the car sounded decidedly rough i.e. missing. Had the mechanic have a look and 50 psi on No 2 piston. Ended up rings and piston gone and a engine full of metal fillings. £4k to put right. Have now traded it in for a Focus RS. (after the rebuild). Wake up Subaru as you are loosing customers faster than you getting them!!!! But hey must be us owners according to Subaru cause theres nothing wrong with all these blown engines!!

honeybadger

does anyone know of any recent cars failing? i know of a few of the sedans (2011 onwards) that failed...but has any 2012 failed?

chet123

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This list continues to grow and grow. Its just shocking to read the engine failures with the 2.5 hatches.

P1Fanatic

Lol FORD seem to be doing well out of it though as you’re the 3rd in about the space of a month to get an RS. Admittedly I didn’t have an STi but I was very close to buying one but my head kicked in and overuled my heart.

honeybadger

what's this business of a MK2 engine in the 2012 models?

Littleted

we dont have any in the uk failed Honey, im presuming your referring to the american ones that blow. since the new saloon the UK has had none go as far as we are aware.

Ive been trolling that forum, and most are COBB access ports which seem to be failing, if you read further the yanks have just had an update to their ECU, which may have fixed whatever the American cars had, most probably poor fuel maps.

but i know nothing lol