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Old 05-27-2012, 04:11 PM
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This happen on the n/a 2.5L?
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Yeah but only the black ones ..... Haha...... Why am I even laughing... My suby is gonna be dwn for a bit... ;(
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Old 05-27-2012, 06:03 PM
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Dude that sucks, sorry to hear that.

I was telling the wife that Im ordering the killer B to install and she said if the oil light does come on it would be an excuse to rebuild and upgrade, then transfer my parts to her WRX. I knew there was a reason I married her.
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Old 05-27-2012, 09:09 PM
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Yeah I just wish I could do something legal about it..
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Old 05-27-2012, 09:26 PM
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Juuuuuust hit 80k.... Hella pissed at this... Seriously Subaru just cost me my motor..
Join the club. My 1st motor died under warranty because of the oil pump. Claim denied of course.
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Originally Posted by Javirex23
Now is this an STI thing? Or are wrx's prone to this aswell?
I've seen it on both WRX's and STI's. I've seen it more on cars that are driven hard which would make sense.

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Old 05-27-2012, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by kmurphy
I go through lots of these-



These are the pickups we keep in stock

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Old 05-27-2012, 09:44 PM
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how much would labor cost to do this? i would like the added security.
Labor is roughly $300 but the car has to stay overnight for the sealant to dry.

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Originally Posted by slugrx
This happen on the n/a 2.5L?
I've never seen one personally.

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Old 05-27-2012, 10:04 PM
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You serious.... Is this not common enough?!?!
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Originally Posted by CaliSuby
You serious.... Is this not common enough?!?!
What do you mean? I wouldn't say it's really common considering all bay area shops have probably seen less than 20 failures over the past ~10 years. It is common enough, however for us to recommend an upgraded pickup on every built engine we send out.

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If it was common you would have changed the oil pick-up long ago.
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I was just never aware of this...my car is hardly ever driven. Ive put like 8k since my tune. Its frustrating that because of Subaru's bad pick up tube's ..it is going to cost me a new motor..i check my oil on every time i fill up my gas. I just changed my oil two weeks ago....there is just no way for me to have found out before...It seems common enough that Killer B an KMurphy made GOOD pick up tubes..im actually thinking of just parting out my parts and getting rid of the car..get something else that wont give me **** like this has...Its just bad rep for subaru to deny that its their fault..
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with the money you would not spend on a rebuild + the money from parts + the money you could get for selling the car, you could pick up something real nice.
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Old 05-28-2012, 02:59 PM
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with the money you would not spend on a rebuild + the money from parts + the money you could get for selling the car, you could pick up something real nice.
That's what my folks are telling me... they basically said.... sell my car for what I can get out of it. Take the $7k I'd spend on a new built motor and buy something for that total... only problem is that I LOVE my car and there's only one car out there I'd trade it for and they're WAAAAY more than $11-12k. LOL.
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