Long story short I bought the car from the dealership (Cardinale GMC) in January of this year. Literally less than 3 weeks later the turbo blew, the headgasket blew, and the car spun a rod bearing. Lucky for me I was able to return the car back to the dealership and get my money back.

Well now the car is back and I highly doubt the car was professionally fixed. These guys were shady enough as it is. The car was nothing but problems for me and I want to warn everyone to stay away from this car!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/ctd/2498177313.html

Also, here's a video of the car before it was returned

 

Well they should have replaced the turbo and motor. And if they did so everything should be ok. I find out post that you are telling people to stay away just because you "highly doubt" it was fixed properly. I think what you should recommend is for potential buyers to inspect the throughly and look for new motor/turbo etc. so you spun a rod? Did you check your oil level often? Any mods?

 

Check the oil level often? He had it for 3 weeks

 

I'ts part of my pre-flight checklist.

 

is the white smoke because of a spun rod?

 

white smoke is because the head gasket was blown. I checked it out a few mins ago and the salesman was playing, I dont know anything about this car, why dont you tell me about it. Acted like a dick too saying his camaro smoked me on the highway and he yelled it lol.

 

Every time you hop in the car?

 

so did they remove the sti badge/wing?

 

How often do you guys check your oil? I check every time I get gas which is about every 2 days. With how much oil Subarus consume I HIGHLY recommend checking your oil as often as possible (Not directed at anyone in this thread, just general info for the newbs reading this thread).


In all my 3 subies, all of them have consumed a crazy amount of oil.

 

Every gas-up is normal, every time you hop in the car seems a bit absurd to me though.

 

I'll go trade in my 2.5i to see if it still has problems

 

Bkblitzed just checked it out and said it has absolutely no coolant in it so he couldn't test drive it.

It came with the WRX wing already and I kept the front STi badge for myself I did check the oil every fill up and inspected everything before I took a trip to Oakland to visit my girlfriends family. On the way back I noticed the car making weird noises and was not going into boost at all. I stopped off at Gilroy to gas up and when I took off there was clouds of smoke coming from the back of the car. So I found the closest parking lot and called my insurance to tow the car back to the house. There was oil in the coolant and when I turned on the car oil/coolant came out of the exhaust in a big messy goop.

 

Every 2 days

 

the only time I check my oil is when I get out of the car and I do not smell burning oil.

140k+ EJ22

 

i rarely check my oil... ive been fine. only time i do is when i feel like theres something wrong and my dipstick proved me wrong instead.