mickjo

Think bigger the space the more they have a run up!!! Anyway been given a name of a mechanic who's very well regarded, apparently the dogs danglers when it comes to subaru boxer engines, used to work for the local Subaru dealer and hes like doing homers/govies/weekend work cash in hand. So will be seeing him this weekend see what the crack is. Mick

Just spewing at buying a lemon. The engine sounds good not lumpy at all so heads aren't warped yet, thought of putting radiator additive in for now (seen that Blue devil in but not sure) until I've saved up for a new car or repair. Ive been warned its about £1700 for the repair. The other thing I just bought a tow-bar ready to fit, And some fecker ran a shopping trolley right the way along the wing to the door mirror huge gouge in the paint. Makes you wanna cry.

hi there, Well I changed my garage and the diagnosis is not good its Head Gasket failure. The mechanic recommends changing both. So I'm looking at a small fortune. So its time to decide to repair or part ex. Not Good Mick

Mr B, N Gambit, Ok appreciate that, will look into those points first. Obviously when I find out any diagnosis I will let you all know. Cheers. Mick

Hi there this persistent issue is starting to get to me. It seems to happen when the car has been run for a lets say oven an hour/100miles. The car is warm at 50% of temp gauge. Then you come to say road works, immediately the gauge goes through the roof to under the red line, you can hear the radiator fans going flat out. Once we are moving then the temp comes down and no longer an issue untill we are again pulling up to say road works again. This has never happened around town/shortish journeys. But on 2 long journeys I was aware that that I had actually lost coolant about 1litre each time. My garage chappie who is very well experienced (not with Subaru's though) has said that hes has come across it before on other cars when the water pump loses efficiency. I have got it booked in to replace this water pump. I want the car as my main driving car but feel its gonna have to go if I cant resolve this. It is a H6 3.0 spec B legacy 130K miles 2006. Mick

PMSL Hi there, gotta agree with the original post, this feature it drives me up the fecking wall. Its the most stupid idea ever. But even worse than that is this feature: I parked up to go into a shop, I locked the door with the key-fob, but then forgetting my wife was staying put in the car, I then unlocked the doors with the key-fob. By the time I got back to the car 2 mins later, I could hear the car alarm with a rather pee'd of red faced wife, shouting that she was just sitting in the car and after about 20 seconds, the car just locked itself and the alarm went off. How even more fecking stupid is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But good job I have a sense of humour. mick

Cheers Gambit thanks for the warm welcome. Its a weird one, never experienced anything like this before. I'm going to persevere with the airlock theory, I just don't want to ruin a good engine doing so. Cheers mick

Hi there I have read quite a few posts about my problem but there isnt quite one that fits mine so I apologise if its been covered before. Ive got a 2006 legacy estate spec B 3.0 auto 6 pot engine 245BHP. Great car pulls great no performance issue as far as I'm aware of. Ive had the car a couple of months covered 2k miles. its done 128k mostly subaru FSH last couple of services have been basic oil filter service. note:The temp gauge is always rock solid 50% of the scale, never higher than that. Anyway. About 1k miles ago I could see the expansion vessel was empty, so topped it up to the fill mark and could see bubbles coming up through the liquid. My immediate thought was head gasket failure!! "I've bought a lemon!!" But then checked the oil cap and no emulsion was evident. I decided to have the car coolant checked at a garage for contamination. No contamination was found. OK maybe its just an air lock. However whilst driving last week: The ambient temp was about 6 deg C, and I wasn't hammering the car as I had her indoors with me. I had just completed some 350 miles uneventfuIl miles pulled over to the side of the road to check the satnav, engine running, and the noticed the temp gauge had shot up almost immediately to just short of the red mark. the engine fans were running like the clappers. I immediately switched the interior fan onto full blast heat knob to full heat. . And within seconds the temperature gauge dropped back to normal 50%. Strange!!. I drove on desperate to get to the destination without incident. Then did exactly the same 10 miles further when we arrived at out destination. Only this time I lifted the bonnet and clocked the expansion vessel had filled almost to the top. The car was left overnight to cool, I lifted the bonnet and expansion vessel was back to normal lever. I drove home 350 miles and no incident. Checked everything I could when home and could see bubbles coming from the expansion vessel as I first stated at the beginning. Note: The cars internal heater control is not good in fact its poor. (Its a digital display) So say I set it at 23degC as its cold inside, the car inside does not warm up, if you steadily increase the temperature there's still no change in heat until you put it to say at 27DegC. But then its too hot inside. Now its when the temperature control is turned down to around 23degC the the engine temperature rose. could this be the cause? Could there be some blockage in the matrix, a problematic thermostat. Any ideas. I know its a long story and any feedback would be appreciated. Mick