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I have 2024 Outback Wilderness. I find the throttle response lacking when starting from a stop. After reviewing the Forum I decided to go through the calibration process. Everything seemed to go as planned. After completing the procedure and waiting over 30 minutes I go back in the car. When I tried to start the car it would not start. All kinds of errors like RAB disabled, Eyesight disabled, Lane assist disable. I disconnected the battery and waited 20 minutes. No improvement. Called the dealer and was told that there is no "Throttle Calibration" procedure and "What did I do" I had to have the car towed to the dealer. Now I am worried I am going to get a huge bill to fix. Any thoughts/help appreciated.

I hope you chime back in once you pick the up. Sorry, does your car have a 2.4 turbo charged engine ? I could be wrong, but I felt this was for XT engines (?)

 

[dcdelcarlo]

Yes it is a turbo

 

[Max Capacity]

I have 2024 Outback Wilderness. I find the throttle response lacking when starting from a stop. After reviewing the Forum I decided to go through the calibration process. Everything seemed to go as planned. After completing the procedure and waiting over 30 minutes I go back in the car. When I tried to start the car it would not start. All kinds of errors like RAB disabled, Eyesight disabled, Lane assist disable. I disconnected the battery and waited 20 minutes. No improvement. Called the dealer and was told that there is no "Throttle Calibration" procedure and "What did I do" I had to have the car towed to the dealer. Now I am worried I am going to get a huge bill to fix. Any thoughts/help appreciated.

You say, the engine would not start. Would the engine spin over ?

I didn't wait much more than the 5 minutes. You waited 30 minutes. I wonder if the experts have any thoughts on that long of a time ?

It sounds like you tried the "procedure" again after the battery was disconnected ?

Inquiring minds want to know what went wrong... ?

 

[wtumrd0]

I have 2024 Outback Wilderness. I find the throttle response lacking when starting from a stop. After reviewing the Forum I decided to go through the calibration process. Everything seemed to go as planned. After completing the procedure and waiting over 30 minutes I go back in the car. When I tried to start the car it would not start. All kinds of errors like RAB disabled, Eyesight disabled, Lane assist disable. I disconnected the battery and waited 20 minutes. No improvement. Called the dealer and was told that there is no "Throttle Calibration" procedure and "What did I do" I had to have the car towed to the dealer. Now I am worried I am going to get a huge bill to fix. Any thoughts/help appreciated.

IMO, there is no way the throttle calibration caused any of this. It sounds more like a dying battery is the cause.

 

[wolf9753]

So I'd felt some odd jerkiness in acceleration and remembered seeing someone on these forums had mentioned and posted a link to a PDF with easy steps on how to calibrate the throttle to one's foot action and how evenly your foot moves the throttle (pedal).

Anyway, a week ago I finally got around to hunting down that thread that had the link to the calibration PDF and downloaded it. A week later (massive procrastinator), I went out and followed the steps to the letter.

Wow! What an immediately noticeable difference! The throttle reacts so much more nicely, acceleration feels more linear and more to the point, that jerkiness was gone and utterly so. I really wish that this was the final thing the dealer went over with all customers. I wish I'd done this the day I got it home, or really, before I left the dealer lot.

So, the REAL reason for this post... PLEASE sticky that gloriously helpful PDF somewhere in the Gen 6 forum and maybe also if there's some "New Outback, what should I do first?" thread. I understand that since how we all press the pedal is different, this calibration may not have as noted an effect as it did for me, but it's still something all OB owners should do early on.

I don't recall where exactly that post was, but I'll toss it up here again for ease.

yep. my dealer is a world class piece of poop. Everything requires a SOA intervention to get done.When I got my 22 OBW in late 21, the rest car was nice. The one I bought , when I picked it up jerked like heck and did all weird things when I drove home. Naturally anybody I could talk to about it was gone for the weekend. I was seriously freaking out, I've had many cars, and some good years of wrenching, and never seen anything like it. it eventually smoothed out on it's own. Wish they had calibrated it prior to delivery, set the TPMS, redid the trailer hitch, etc, etc.

 

[ST42]

Does this change the way the car responds in stop & go traffic when using the adaptive cruise control? I would hate to screw that up, its fantastic in those zero to 70mph & anything in between situations that go on for 10 miles.

That's my concern as well. Any heavy CC users here who have done the cal?

 

[john from md]

I have done the throttle cal procedure a few times until I got the response that I wanted. The only change you can do is to vary the speed at which you push the pedal but it does make a difference.

I have also played with adaptive cruise control in varying types of stop and go traffic. I noticed no difference related to calibrating the throttle. However, there is a difference when using different acceleration rates. I have found, depending on what kind of stop and go traffic I am in, (whether on highway or local streets) it is sometimes better to increase the acceleration rate to keep up with the traffic.

 

[584876]

I'm done with the subaru throttle calibration game. Ordered an Ultimate9 on sale for 140 bucks.

 

[teamdrop]

I'm done with the subaru throttle calibration game. Ordered an Ultimate9 on sale for 140 bucks.

Yes I followed as well and its a game-changer

 

[Sean Kaizen]

Did this on my lunch break....shall test this evening.

 

[MackDaddy1962]

I did this a few days after I bought mine at the end of February. Throttle is still where I like it, now with ~ 2400 miles on the clock. Just say'n..

 

[Sean Kaizen]

Yes I followed as well and its a game-changer

Tell me more lads. Looking at their site now. Seems like a better use of $$$ than the AS hack.

 

[teamdrop]

Tell me more lads. Looking at their site now. Seems like a better use of $$$ than the AS hack.

If you buy it on amazon like I did at least you have the return policy but I'd rather have gotten the 25% off via the loyalty code. I've zero regrets and feel even more satisfied having heard a bunch of talk about other products like pedal commander and then coming across this,

 

[Sean Kaizen]

If you buy it on amazon like I did at least you have the return policy but I'd rather have gotten the 25% off via the loyalty code. I've zero regrets and feel even more satisfied having heard a bunch of talk about other products like pedal commander and then coming across this,

Where did you source the loyalty code?

 

[teamdrop]

Where did you source the loyalty code?

 

[Sean Kaizen]

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Thanks, ordered mine yesterday. That throttle plug is a MFer to get a picture of for a tall person!

 

[normancjr]

well, i kinda/sorta flip-flopped on the legitimacy of this procedure... it's still the single dumbest way to fix something that shouldn't have gone wrong in the first place that i have ever seen... subaru & denso, maybe others, need a nice fat class action suit brought for this surefire april fool's joke! but it works. dramatically. the first time. i still think that washwinserepeat thirty times is unheard of overkill, but i remember being wrong lately. sincere thank you to the wayback OP and believers over the world!

normanc sbn 2015 (aug'24) obw prem 2.5 "aspro" ice silver 128k one more idiosyncrasy resolved well! love the car, except for the thing that lives in the dashboard...

 

[wtumrd0]

subaru & denso, maybe others, need a nice fat class action suit brought for this surefire april fool's joke!

Please let us know as you make progress with your suit.

 

[rrew]

Cool, I recommend taking a note pad and pen to keep track of the 30 sets of pedal press/pedal release you'll do. I tried without the 1st time and had to scrap that try half way thru when I lost count. Also a cold beverage doesn't hurt.

Hope you see a pleasant improvement.

A cold beverage could explain why you lost count!

 

[Beukema]

OMG. What a difference.

'24 Wilderness w/ about 24K miles. I had noticed the turbo had come to leap out of a standing start with only mild encouragement from the pedal. I guessing that we trained the accelerator over time by some lead-footed tendencies of a family member I won't name -- though I've been known to call on the turbo myself from time to time. Anyway, I'd remembered what this exercise did for my '20 and decided it was time to give it go.

Came here just to confirm that the careful instructions of OP's PDF really can make a difference. I'm finding a much smoother gradation of acceleration from full stop to full out. And I suspect that this smoothing out may also help the life of CVT.

Cheers!