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ilovemysubie, 02/15/2003
1999 Subaru Legacy Outback 4dr Wagon AWD
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
I love my car, but I have had many problems with the dealerships (more than one). The car itself looks great, is always fun to drive, holds up well and actually gets pretty good mileage considering the weight and AWD (always 25+ mpg). I've had a few minor problems...that seemed like major ones thanks to the "lack of service" departments. Everything takes weeks to do and more than once I have been billed for things that just weren't done. At the latest routine service, I was actually given the car back with the check engine light on!!! For these reasons, I probably won't ever buy a Subaru again, but that's ok because I hope to keep this one forever.
Snow bound in Siberia
Leadfoot, 12/01/2009
1999 Subaru Legacy Outback 4dr Wagon AWD
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
The car was purchased prior to transfer to Finland for its 4wd. It's handled great on the ice covered roads of northern Finland with some issues related to brakes wearing out early (Maybe too much salt on the roads). It does suck down the gas but has reliable starting history and only required some minor maintenance on the cooling system to date. It is an oil burner but not such that it needs any additional in the 3,000 mile change intervals that I am using. Found the Fully synt oil burns or runs out faster than the partially synt. Now looking at a new clutch set replacement after 120k. Not bad since it does take a bit of abuse.
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budakhjs, 01/20/2003
1999 Subaru Legacy L 4dr Wagon AWD
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
i bought this car, expecting a boring station wagon. what i got was a great little peppy all-wheel drive beast.
Not as reliable as I wanted
unhappycamper1231243, 06/20/2004
1999 Subaru Legacy Outback 4dr Wagon AWD
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
The Subaru did well for the first 5 years of ownership but at 86,000 it started to fall apart. We've put in new wheel bearings, clutch, and transmission in the last 6000 miles but still have major problems. I really expect a car in this price range to last longer. I'm told by my local mechanic that the AWD feature causes transmissions to fail sooner than in 2D and 4D vehicles.
They don't build em like they used to
Crud, 07/11/2010
1999 Subaru Legacy Outback Limited 30th Anniversary 4dr Wagon AWD
6 of 8 people found this review helpful
I have a 1992 legacy 2.2 with 245K miles, that still works flawlessly. However, I needed a lower mileage vehicle so how could I go wrong with another Suby so I bought a 1999 which now has 101K (I think because the speedometer/odometer is garbage). The 2.2 SOHC changed from a noninterference on my 92, to interference on the 2.2 SOHC 99 (won't get off with just a broken timing belt). No speedometer cable on the 99 only cheap three strand spaghetti wires (way too many). Subaru changed from reliable, to electrically ridden piles of crap, overpriced for the reliability. Love the wagon though. Ford Freestyles are a great AWD wagon alternative,good mpg too :). Sorry Subaru this will be my last one.