That has to be a defect. I have close to 75,000 miles on my '02 and haven't had any problems. And I thought for sure at least the clutch would have gone out, especially since this is the car I learned how to drive a stick with, so a lot of bad shifts, and other things. Not to mention my dalily abuse.

I hope your warrenty covers that. Cause that shouldn't happen.

 

I found i-club and other sites 9 months before I got my wrx, and they served to educate me about everything I could expect from owning a subie, both pros and cons. I guess the pros won. My car is the best thing I own.

 

I'm on my second Subaru, and I will probably eventually own another when I finally kill this WRX.


The transmision is really the only "weak link" in the WRX, and its only weak if you insist on abusing it with power-mods and drop-starts. (Aside from the 1st gear syncro that we all hate...)

On the other hand, the rest of the car is a BEAST. I spent a week recently pounding around on rocky, rutted umpaved backroads. By my own admission, I savagely abused that car; we bottomed out and bounced off the cieling dozens of times; my undercarrage looks like I spend a day hitting it with a sledgehammer. Any other car (assuming it was still even running) would have been sporting sixteen new rattles and vibrations.
After I replaced the two wheels I bent, and got an allignment done, the WRX drives like it always has, and feels as solid as if I had never bounced it over four mountain ranges.

These things are more than just fast.
Mike

 

They better fix that problem! Where are you taking it?


It's not just his car, I seen it a few times now on I-Club.


Thats awesome to hear that even after you abused it, it keeps on going!

 

I'm going to take it to my dealership in town to get it fixed, I think my mom and I have decided if they decide to deny the warrenty it might be bye bye subaru : ( I guess we'll find out on tuesday.

 

i have had TWO subies in the past and now I am in a 'transition' stage with a 98 protege. And I am considering a 05 subie right now or an used 01 subie. I've seen this forum before I purchased my two previous subies.

 

Honestly, serious problems are VERY rare unless serious abuse is done. If you dont abuse the tranny you wont have any problems, even with some modifications. My father has a subaru with almost 60k miles and he LOVES it, never had a problem with it. He actually prefers an old 98 wagon over a 02 highlander, he says the AWD in the subie owns the highlanders 4wd.

 

Yes, I would. I need a larger car for the family, but I want more power. Can we say Legacy GT wagon?

As far as station wagons go, there really aren't any reliable choices out there except subaru.

 

Considering all the cars on the market for around the same price or less...yeah I still would have purchased my04 STi over all the rest. If I could afford it I'd get a WRX or Legacy wagon too.

 

Not to be a pita but that's where you're wrong, I have not abused my car, I've autocrossed my car twice, no clutch drops, have really never missed a gear, but on one night I missed 4th by accident, and now it grinds, I can understand 1st and 2nd, but no, this is not abuse, this is a defect. I thought about it's all abuse that breaks the tranny's, after looking more into this topic, it's plain and simple a weak tranny that can't even take one little grind. I live in a city of about 260,000 not many subaru WRX's here, and I have 3 people who have tranny problems including me, that's not good, plus all the other problems besides my city, one person had problems at 500 miles and made the dealership buy the car back. I think it's time Subaru steps up and does something, no I admit it at first I was it's never going to happen to me, but it did. I think there are some defective tranny's out there and also some very good trannys. After finding out about this I'm going to be selling my scooby : ( . Now Subaru isn't the only car with tranny problems, Honda is there too. I've read that the RSX has had some grinding issues, but Honda came out stood up and release a TSB and replaced many parts on their transmisions which included gearsets. This is what Subaru needs to look into. I love Subaru's cars but they really need to look into the issue and stop blaming all the problems on abuse, there are just too many transmission problems out there.

 

You're right it's not an epidemic yet, but I think it's pretty bad in that maybe about 3 that I know of for sure maybe more out of about 20 wrx's in town that have something wrong with their tranny, that's a 15% failure rate 3 out of 20. That's a bad ratio. Now if you take that ballpark figure out of all the WRX's out there, that's alot of problems, yes there are still more good ones out there, but about a 15% rate is pretty darn bad to me. I know this is just my city, but that's just too much for me, so basically the rate where I live is probably in a range from 10% to 20% who knows but even 10% is bad. Maybe it's just where I live, who knows, just too many problems that I said before, Subaru should be attacking this issue more agressively, and not giving a good bunch of people a hard time, we'll find out how they treat me today.