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Ride and handling are nice but too many repairs
Jude, Broomfield, CO, 04/05/2017
updated 11/15/2018
Subaru Legacy 2.5i 4dr Sedan AWD (2.5L 4cyl 5M)
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
I've owned this car since it was new and it's now got 104000 miles. I was looking to trade it in a year ago because I was looking at about $4000 of repairs: new timing belt, which is normal, but also a new head gasket and new rack and pinion steering, which is not. The fabric on the driver's seat wore through to the foam rubber after a couple of years and I've been making do with duct tape. I used to get rattling in the driver's side duct work, which I addressed by pulling the grill and jamming shop rags around the duct. This got fixed when the dealer pulled the dash to install new airbags per a recall. But I have other dash rattles showing up when the car's been sitting in the hot sun. I remedy it by blowing the defrost on cold for a while and it seems to make the rattle go away. The car ate up the power steering belt for some reason (bad rack and pinion?) but I haven't had any problems since I replaced the belt. I shopped around for other cars and wound up not liking much of anything I saw. I'm looking for a car with a manual transmission. That gave me about 5 cars in my price range, and none of them handled as well as the Subaru, very jewell-like precision and solid-feeling. And I like the size of the car, it's smaller than the current Legacy but bigger than the Impreza. So I went ahead and got the new timing belt and rack and pinion and plan on keeping the car another couple of years and go from there. The head gasket thing turned out to be something I'm not going to spend money on because some mechanics say it's an issue ("These Subarus have problems with the head gasket") and others tell me it's just fine. So it looks like one of those things some garages come up with to generate revenue. So I'll hang on to the car but I'm not sure I'd get another Subaru. I've never had a car for which I had to replace the steering, neither have I had a car with all the dashboard rattles. It's one thing for me to adapt to my current car but I don't know that I'd want to buy in to another round of these issues. Update 11/2018: Went to the mechanic for an oil change, to have a buzzing sound in the exhaust looked at and to figure out why the engine was smelling like burning oil. The buzzing was a heat shield, the smell was caused by leaking transmission seals. I found that I need a new front wheel bearing (this would be the second replacement wheel bearing), the power steering's leaking, it needs new bushings, and it looked like it might need a transmission rebuild. At the prospect of spending another couple thousand bucks on this car in the next year, and who knows how much after that, I sold it and got a Mazda 6.
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Fairly Impressed
Kip in Boise, 02/15/2008
Subaru Legacy 2.5i 4dr Sedan AWD (2.5L 4cyl 5M)
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
We've had our 06 legacy for 2 years and we're very happy with it, We have a few annoying rattles, and the interior scratches easy, otherwise it drives great and is very fun to drive!
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Best vehicle I have ever had!
Wade, 01/24/2006
Subaru Legacy 2.5i 4dr Sedan AWD (2.5L 4cyl 5M)
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
This is my first Subaru and not my last after this experience. I have had GM, Ford, Mercury, Chrysler, and Jeep in the past and this blows all of them away without a glimpse in the rear view mirror!