Engine failure

[eureco]

New to the club , I have a diesel Forrester , bough new in 09 , 2 weeks ago the engine packed up , when examined by the Subaru dealership where I bought the car they said the crankshaft bearings had failed , the car has 138000 km on the clock , that's less than 100k miles , full service record , not all at a Subaru garage as there is none local to me

I have been told I need a new short block + labour total cost €8,500 is this reasonable behaviour and has anyone had similar problems with the Subaru diesel

[Jay762]

Welcome - sorry to hear about that

 

The bearing failure (allegedly because of slight miss alignment during assembly) is an issue that can arise with the Subaru range - that does seem a steep price to replace though

[Gambit]

Welcome to S.O.C 

And again sorry to hear the bad news. And I'm with Jay that seems hell of a lot. Is that a main dealers quote ?

If it is I was see if there is any subaru specialist local to you or have a ring around some garages. I'm sure you can get that done cheaper. 

[Miggs]

welcome to the S.O.C. pal, good to have you here, not so good though are the circumstances you find yourself with, i too think that's a bit of a high price, seems a typical dealer response though, charge the earth for not a lot of money in parts, it's probably all labour costs as the entire engine needs to be stripped down to fix it, a normal inline 4 pot can have the bearings done from below by just removing the sump, as long as theres a garage with experience of taking a subaru engine apart the quote should come back a hellova lot cheaper than main stealer prices

[Ash007ks]

Damn that's expensive :/ did you not get any warranty or  was it bought privately ? surely you could buy a new engine and have it fitted for less ?