2.1

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
75,000 miles

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problem #1

Sep 012016

Outback 4-cyl

  • 75,000 miles
Brought it to Honda dealership I purchased it used. 18 months later, I'm having the current issue. Thought it was as simple as using white lithium grease to deal with the squeak in the clutch. They said it was a rubber gasket that is part of the foot pedal assembly and that the foot pedal assembly would need replacing, the Subaru dealer ship also claims the noise transfers through the clutch master cylinder from the clutch assembly. The noise occurs when pushing and releasing the clutch and is driving me mad. Muscatell Subaru informed me it will make this noise and eventually break and my clutch will then be difficult if not impossible to push. I don't want to wait for this to occur and its an extremely expensive repair for something thats just annoying at the moment. But apparently they'll have to lift the whole transmission to have access to the area where the repair would occur. I've seen earlier years of this model have issues like this and supposedly 2009 models have the issue fixed, but it seems that my 2009 is having this issue...

- Fargo, ND, USA