Been hovering this site for awhile and now have an reason to set up an account and have my first official post...
I purchased my '14 STi brand new in November 2013, fast forward to June 2015 and I noticed my engine making some fairly awful sounds. The car only has 8,XXX miles. Called up the dealership and plan to take it in on Monday.
I bought my car knowing full well that there were noted engine issues with STi's in general but felt that it was largely the vocal minority making a big stink about isolated issues. This has definitely opened my eyes a bit as I take very good care of my car and fully intended to drive it until the wheels fell off (200,000+ miles).
https://youtu.be/_BlnJG50RIc
Here are some details:
Oil - Changed every 3K miles by Subaru
Gas - Costco 93
No Modifications
Break in per drivers manual instructions
Knocking starts at 2K RPM
UPDATE 1:
I dropped the car off at Subaru today. They say it will take them 10 hours to get it torn apart, assess, and relay details to SOA. At that point they will determine if it is eligible for warranty replacement.
Seeing as how the car is and has always been 100% stock and has not been driven hard I don't foresee any issues.
I am still somewhat surprised that the engine had a failure after 8,000 miles. I bought the car because I wanted a semi reliable stock car that was a higher performing, fun daily driver. When I say reliable, I mean something that shouldn't have any significant issues like this until over 100,000 miles...
UPDATE 2:
Seems like this will have been a relatively quick opened/closed issue. They tore the motor apart and found it spun a bearing and are replacing the short block. Did not offer much more explanation other than "we see this all the time." Should have it back by Monday which is only a week after dropping it off.
Hopefully it holds together better this time around. I have another 3.5 years/42,000 miles to test it out.
At least I got a free oil change...it was due.
UPDATE 3:
The failure was in cylinder #2
UPDATE 4:
Car is back from the dealer. Fully covered under warranty. Purrs like a kitten...for now!
I purchased my '14 STi brand new in November 2013, fast forward to June 2015 and I noticed my engine making some fairly awful sounds. The car only has 8,XXX miles. Called up the dealership and plan to take it in on Monday.
I bought my car knowing full well that there were noted engine issues with STi's in general but felt that it was largely the vocal minority making a big stink about isolated issues. This has definitely opened my eyes a bit as I take very good care of my car and fully intended to drive it until the wheels fell off (200,000+ miles).
https://youtu.be/_BlnJG50RIc
Here are some details:
Oil - Changed every 3K miles by Subaru
Gas - Costco 93
No Modifications
Break in per drivers manual instructions
Knocking starts at 2K RPM
UPDATE 1:
I dropped the car off at Subaru today. They say it will take them 10 hours to get it torn apart, assess, and relay details to SOA. At that point they will determine if it is eligible for warranty replacement.
Seeing as how the car is and has always been 100% stock and has not been driven hard I don't foresee any issues.
I am still somewhat surprised that the engine had a failure after 8,000 miles. I bought the car because I wanted a semi reliable stock car that was a higher performing, fun daily driver. When I say reliable, I mean something that shouldn't have any significant issues like this until over 100,000 miles...
UPDATE 2:
Seems like this will have been a relatively quick opened/closed issue. They tore the motor apart and found it spun a bearing and are replacing the short block. Did not offer much more explanation other than "we see this all the time." Should have it back by Monday which is only a week after dropping it off.
Hopefully it holds together better this time around. I have another 3.5 years/42,000 miles to test it out.
At least I got a free oil change...it was due.
UPDATE 3:
The failure was in cylinder #2
UPDATE 4:
Car is back from the dealer. Fully covered under warranty. Purrs like a kitten...for now!