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

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

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. 

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

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 ?