rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about hundreds of thousands of cars that
Subaru has recalled, yes over the years Subarus have had problems with head
gaskets because of that boxer design, automatic transmission failures lots
of things, but these are actual recalls that they have to recall the cars to get
them fixed, Subaru has to recall 400,000 of their vehicles because they put bad
valve springs in the engine heads, so on these four hundred thousand vehicles
Subaru has to replace all the valve Springs, well you got to tear the whole
engine apart there, and that is like a 12-hour labor job, according to Subarus
own statistics, this is going to cost Subaru 434 million dollars in profit
that they're gonna have to throw back to fix these things, but there's even a
catch on that, I have seen people have these subaru engines taken in put all
new valve springs in, 12 hour job taking the engine apart and putting it together
and then within a few months the engines blow up while they're going down the
road and of course the subaru dealers try to say, oh there's something else
wrong with it come on now they took the engine apart put it back together for 12
hours, they obviously didn't do a very good job
and here's a reason that this will often happen these days, because here's how
warranty work works at a dealership, I'm showing you all parts are replacing the
car, in this case it says one point six hours is standard for doing this
particular job, but look at this manufacturers warranty 1.2
hours, they pay less to the mechanics who are doing warranty work, this information
comes from all data its information system that everyone uses to decide how
much to charge for a job, so let's face it, this is the last thing you want done
when someone is rebuilding your engine, it's a very intricate process things
have to be done perfectly to within a thousandth of an inch or even less, you
don't want a guy who's like, I'm getting paid less than I normally get paid so
I'm going to rush through this job as fast as I can
of course they're gonna screw up when they do some of these jobs, and then
engines are gonna blow up, you know it's just stupid
to pay people less to do engine work, okay if their doing something simple like
changing the fan belts, or you know putting brake pads on, but not rebuilding
an engine and unfortunately this recall also includes those Toyota 86s, because
as I've talked about before the Toyota 86 s have subaru engines in them
Toyota doesn't make them, I think it's a mistake when one company uses another
company's engines, then it makes them look bad because their cars have to be
recalled because the people they're buying the engine from didn't make them
right in the first place, and it's not like Subaru hasn't had engine problems
in the past, everybody knows they have a tendency to blow head gasket, why toyota
decided to use subaru engines, that's one behind me but I guess it's
some deal they got going back in Japan, and this recall also includes some of
the Scion fr-s, of course Scion they don't exist anymore it was just Toyota
trying a different name, but then again they were putting these Subaru engines
in there, if you ask me big mistake Toyota
now we're talking Subaru and recalls, well a bunch of the Subarus are under
that Takata airbag recall now you can't really blame Subaru on that but they're
not getting very good luck because as of January 2018 only twenty-nine point five
percent of these airbag recalls had actually been performed by Subaru, the Legacy
and Outback 49 thousand of them were recalled because of an improperly
machined steering column that could result in loss of steering control, that
is really serious stuff and that same year 592 thousand outbacks and legacies
are recalled because the plastic cap that covers the windshield wiper might
melt and you lose your wipers, be great you're going down the road it's raining
like made and you got your wipers on, then it
melts and they stop, I mean these guys have quality control problems there's no
arguing that, back in 2014 they recalled over 600,000 vehicles because their
brake lines were improperly built, and if they get contact with saltwater or salt
water vapor that can go bad, you know we're talking about a company that has a
history of problems, now historically this wasn't always the case with Subaru,
I've got a customer who's moving away from Houston now, but 30-something years
ago he was nuts about his Subaru, he had moved
to Texas from up north and he loved the four-wheel drive aspect, and he had an
early one that was a four-cylinder it was a standard transmission all-wheel
drive, and he loved the vehicle, then he moved away again out of Houston and I didn't
see the guy for like 20 years and he came back here cuz he said, hey I've got
a house inMaine and I'm gonna be living up there for a while, check out my toyota
for the trip, and I said hey I thought you were a Subaru man, he said yeah the last
Subaru I had was really great but he said after that they started to make junk
and I went to Toyota haha it's just a private individual happened to be more
or less a scientist and he really analyzed stuff all the time, and he gave
up with Subaru long time ago, he really loved that early Subaru that he had but
hey, he realized Toyota's were a ton better, cuz really Subarus started as
kind of a fringe company, they made a certain amount of cars not all that many,
people like them that lived in the mountains and went skiing cuz they were
all wheel drive, but then when they started to ramp up production and sell
more cars, hey they made a lot of mistakes, and as I said hey I feel Toyota
made a mistake using these Subaru engines and some of their cars, the
company with a history of problems why would you want to deal with that when
your Toyota and you make great cars that don't have engine problems, why would you
put engines from another manufacturer with a
history of engine problems in your cars, it's gonna water down your brand, cuz at
least for me if I bought a car and the engine had problems had to bring it
under warranty then take it all apart put it back together again, I would never
buy another one of those period, Subaru is recalling 1.3 million yes million
cars in the United States, because your perfume may affect your car adversely
I'm not making this up, it turns out that perfume certain fabric softeners and
other aromas contain a silicone that can wreck the brake light switch on these
cars, somehow the silicone that's in these
aromas can attract to the contact switch on your brake switch on your pedal, cause
it to corrode and then the brake lights don't work
and of course that's dangerous as can be at highway speeds, if your brake lights
don't come on when you're stepping the brakes, some guy behind you going 75 might slam right
into you so they
had to recall 1.3 million car for this and the weirdest thing is, the silicone
gases only affect some models and not others,
Subaru doesn't comment on it but that makes it even weirder, I mean let's face
it if the perfume someone's wearing affects the electronics on the car, that
kind of make you wonder about who's making these things, and valve-spring
problems in an engine, when I was a young mechanic yeah engines would wear out and have
valve spring problems because the metallurgy wasn't as good, but today the
metallurgy is excellent they have much better metals, they know how to make
valve springs better, having a failure on something like that, that's
inexcusable as far as I'm concerned, so now you know the truth about a bunch of
Subaru recalls, and why I'd say stay away from Subaru, because it's a competitive
world out there, there's plenty of good products out there, why buy a bad one
when you have a choice of much better ones, so if you never want to miss
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