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stay away from turbos
dougiej, 02/19/2014
2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT Limited AWD 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl Turbo 5A)
4 of 12 people found this review helpful
ought at 45,000, now have 77,000. have replaced turbo, gas tank, power steering pump, transaxle, rack and pinion on right side, head gasket leak, #3 cylinder coil and spark plug, and now the timing chain kit needs replacing ?
Goes Like Stink
Nick-O, 02/12/2010
2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Limited AWD 4dr Wagon (2.5L 4cyl 4A)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
This is a nice car, safe, big and heavy, but it's fast. The 2.5 turbo is probably one of the top 10 engines out there. If you step on it hard, it takes a second then hold on! Passes anything on the highway and goes anywhere you want it to. It's a subaru so it is reliable. The only issue is now it makes a loud humming noise past 35 mph. Maybe a wheel bearing. The mileage is not good...maybe 15 around town :(But hey, it's a big heavy AWD car with 250 hp.
2005 Subaru Legacy for sale near you
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- 2.5i SedanMSRP: $7,995286 mi away
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2005 Legacy GT Limited sedan
jim1969, 07/04/2004
2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT Limited AWD 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl Turbo 5A)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Great car. Very fast acceleration even for an automatic. Put together very well. I waited a year and a half for it and it was worth it. Light years above the outgoing model.
Oil Eater
Oilwoes, 08/08/2006
2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5i AWD 4dr Sedan (2.5L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Brand new car from the beginning burns oil - 1600-2400 miles/quart on average. According to the dealer, Subaru specs allow oil consumption of 1000 miles/quart before they want to fix the problem. No drips - just occasional stench of oil belching for my driving pleasure. My 1997 Outback with 80,000 miles never ate oil. Will never purchase a Subaru again.
Lemon
D&C, 10/11/2010
2005 Subaru Legacy 2.5 GT AWD 4dr Wagon (2.5L 4cyl Turbo 5A)
1 of 6 people found this review helpful
We look around for a new car fro almost 4 months before we both the gt. We have know 158,000 km on the car and have replaced 4 turbo's and are on our 3 engine. At 120,000 we had a the last turbo replace and then moved again. 18,000 km later the engine had a broken piston and needed to be rebuild once again. Phoned Subaru Canada they told us that they could see that we had a lot of bad luck with the car as all records are kept on there computers. But because we moved and lost our maintenance records and only could show them the records for the service work that we did after the new turbo was put in they did not help us. We have had rebuild but are not trusting the car any more and traded in.