Having had as many as five Subarus in the family at once we are now down to my beater, a '98 Legacy sedan with a little over 250,000 miles and a new 2013 Legacy Outback.
I have been down the road with the leaking head gasket issues, mostly on the 2001 Outback that we sold before buying the new car and I was always able to work around that without replacing the gaskets, but now I am wondering about the track record for the four cam chain driven four cylinder cars.
Should I expect gasket problems with this engine? I had misgivings when we bought the car, but was evenutally reassured by someone telling me that the current generation of twin cam motors was completely different from the late '90s ones, and that, with the long production run of the six cylinder engines, the "bugs" had been worked out.
BTW: Having driven and ridden in many Hondas I have to say that the lower end ones feel very light and fragile to me. My youngest son has a high end Honda and likes it, but I am just plain sold on Subaru cars, especially for use here in the eastern snow country mountains.
I have been down the road with the leaking head gasket issues, mostly on the 2001 Outback that we sold before buying the new car and I was always able to work around that without replacing the gaskets, but now I am wondering about the track record for the four cam chain driven four cylinder cars.
Should I expect gasket problems with this engine? I had misgivings when we bought the car, but was evenutally reassured by someone telling me that the current generation of twin cam motors was completely different from the late '90s ones, and that, with the long production run of the six cylinder engines, the "bugs" had been worked out.
BTW: Having driven and ridden in many Hondas I have to say that the lower end ones feel very light and fragile to me. My youngest son has a high end Honda and likes it, but I am just plain sold on Subaru cars, especially for use here in the eastern snow country mountains.