2000 Subaru Outback Limited 2.5 ej25 from North America
Summary:
Junk
Faults:
HEAD GASKETS needed replacing only after 10k miles of driving.
Transmission is failing.
Body style is plastic and cheap.
Plus a million other little things.
General Comments:
NOT WORTH IT!!! I have spent enough on this car to have bought a brand new one, and the list keeps growing. Both owners before me babied this car as have I.
These cars are flawed from the get go. 96-99 have internal HG leaks and 00-04 have external HG leaks. The percentage of Soobs that leak are EXTREMELY high. I'm staring at a 2000$ bill for mine right now! This car is a big gamble with high risk. I should have heeded warnings from other people, but I decided to get it anyway. Now I'm really regretting it.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
Review Date: 23rd October, 2008
17th Jul 2013, 16:59
$3,000 bucks? Hell, you can buy a Outback Grand Wagon Lancaster. Here in Japan you can pick up a 10-year-old with well under 100,000km on the clock for no more than $2,000. Drive it out of the auction yard all paid.
With a Subaru, after 100,000km you're on borrowed time, but you can push timing belt replacement a bit. In fact it's best to scrap at 100,000km and replace, as here in Japan it's often cheaper as in the countryside scrapping's free. On the 2.5-litre, the head gasket will blow at around 160,000km. Essentially a last owner vehicle.
Bottom line, you're paying too much and expecting too much.