Well i have finally been able to let my STI loose and guess what!!! It's a detonator alright! When i heard other people talking about their cars pinging i just sorta ignored it praying that mine wouldn't be one of those. Well now that i have a pinging STI i am serisously pissed off!! This is just unexcusable! A brand new halo car of this calibur should not have the most dreaded problem an engine can have from the factory. I know that there is an ECU remap but from what i have read it is becoming widely believed that it causes power loses. That is unacceptable too! If thats true then all the new STI's being sold with remapped ECU's shouldn't be rated at 300hp and 300 ft/lbs anymore. Another problem is that i decided to run an experiment the last 1 1/2 weeks that i have known my car detonates. I put it up for sale. I immediately had 6 people want to buy it. 4 of them however, lost all interest when they drove it and heard the detonation. The other 2 said they might buy it after i get it's ECU remapped. They both called back within 2 days after doing some internet research and said they were no longer interested in buying an STI. The reason..... apparent hp loses from the remapped ecu's. So we can assume that all of us with pinging STI's are screwed when we decide to sell our cars. The resell value is going be lower too. Even if I remap the ECU and then try to sell the car, my service records will show that it was a detonator that has been remapped. I have 2 friends whose STI's were due in less than a month and both of them have cancelled their orders and gotten other cars instead. ARGGHHH!! I am sorry to rant on like this but i believe that Subaru has a massive cluster f**k on their hands and they haven't addressed it anywhere near the degree it deserves. I passed on one of my favorite alltime cars(the evo) to buy a subaru that i thought was gonna be superior. I don't think i will buy a Subaru again after this mess. What do all of you think of this mess and how do you think subaru should react to it other than issuing a "hush hush" ECU remap?
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I have been in contact with subaru and have informed them that i want them to purchase my car back from me for the sticker price + tax, title, license and destination charge. Heck mazda is doing it with the RX-8 over a little difference in horsepower. Subaru should be doing it too, over an engine blowing up inside itself for christ's sake! I am supposed to get a call back tomorrow about it. If they do it then i am just gonna go all out and buy myself an R34 skyline.
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I have been in contact with subaru and have informed them that i want them to purchase my car back from me for the sticker price + tax, title, license and destination charge. Heck mazda is doing it with the RX-8 over a little difference in horsepower. Subaru should be doing it too, over an engine blowing up inside itself for christ's sake! I am supposed to get a call back tomorrow about it. If they do it then i am just gonna go all out and buy myself an R34 skyline.