... so? Evidently, I'm not the Lone Ranger? Subaru North America knowing and deliberately pawned off defective electronics, on American consumers? And, yet once again, my local Subaru dealership's been lying, straight through their teeth, regarding so wanton, so blatant, and so painfully obvious a product defect?
"Oh, it's because women push buttons too hard! It's on account of your wife, pushing the buttons too hard!"
The Subaru people can't be bothered to QA their electronics? Much less can they be bothered for so simple a fix, to our radios and HVAC interface? Even the most obtuse of Subaru aficionado has no choice but begrudgingly concede, the Subaru North America people have been caught, red-handed, their heads firmly buried in the sand, in abject denial, ducking inexcusable quality oversight issues on their U.S. based Legacy/Outback platform, over a decade.
They even have dealership service people, covering up for them!
Exactly same issue on my '07 Green Bean, what appears to be a classical, short circuit issue with the HVAC and stereo indicative of Russian and Yugoslavian automobiles of the 20th century. 21 century manufacturing, this is inexcusable.
I'm going to have to tear into this, myself? I'll be giving this a try first thing tomorrow morning:
Subaru should be standing behind their engineering, not hiding behind mommy's apron. Were Subaru were running NASA? America's space program would never have made it, as far as the launch pad.
- Samuel, '07 Green Bean
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