Scotty,
Love watching your YouTube channel. 20 years in GM Service departments and currently a service manager. Your dead on with modern ones not being as good with lifters and so forth (my techs have removed the active fuel management and tuned them as such. My question is my girlfriend likes subaru and my friends who's a Subaru service manager said they're great and manufacturer stands behind them. What do you think in general, he said being awd they seem to have hub bearing issues. Let me know. Thanks
Aaron - in Florida
he said being awd they seem to have hub bearing issues.
Subarus do seem to have weak rear wheel bearings. A friend with a 2017 Outback needed a rear bearing replaced at about 70K miles. That's not a severe problem like engine failure but is annoying. (I'm used to wheel bearings lasting hundreds of thousands of miles.)
Another issue is the front drive axles because the inner joints are very near the exhaust system and the grease in the CV joints gets cooked over time.
CVTs are a weak point of course but the new ones aren't too bad and changing fluid regularly instead of following the "lifetime fluid" nonsense should extend their life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMssN-nDiY
If a person needs a vehicle and needs AWD they still make some of the best AWD vehicles in the industry, fairly dependable system and overall a decent vehicle for up to 200,000 miles. Their CVT has historically been their weak link although newer ones are improved. Unfortunately, warranty can be voided if transmission fluid is changed before 100,000 miles, and here on this forum we recommend every 30,000 miles to change it.
What do you think in general, he said being awd they seem to have hub bearing issues.
I’m wondering if this may be a hub manufacturer defect. I’ve heard some RAV4 of the previous generation have similar symptoms. And I know that Subaru and Toyota share some suppliers.
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