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There has been a lot of previous discussion on this forum in several threads about possible missing turbo bolts. I believe Robert mentioned this as possibly involving the inter cooler piping sometime back in August. Well here’s my story.
We picked up our new pre ordered Black Touring model at the dealer on 6/28/2018. Drove it home...approximately 50 miles. That evening in the garage upon examining the engine compartment and closing the hood a bolt apparently fell out on our carpeted garage floor. The bolt was not discovered immediately, but a half hour or so later by a visiting neighbor on the carpet under the front passenger wheel well. I immediately examined all front areas underneath and around engine compartment that I could see with flashlight. Nothing missing. Wrote SOA a message with pictures, received reply stating that I should have car inspected by a dealer. We were very short on time...leaving for 2 1/2 months...and could not have it checked until today.
Today, with 257 miles on the car the results are in.....
Had this bolt not fallen out on my garage floor....I would have never known that I had a problem.
Sadly, and based on others input to this forum, no proactive action that I know of has been taken by Subaru to alert customers of a potential problem.....there are three bolts that hold the inter cooler piping in place.
However, I am very pleased with my dealers response and hopefully others may benefit by having this checked. Access to the inter cooler piping is not user friendly! Our vehicle was produced very early June 2018.
We picked up our new pre ordered Black Touring model at the dealer on 6/28/2018. Drove it home...approximately 50 miles. That evening in the garage upon examining the engine compartment and closing the hood a bolt apparently fell out on our carpeted garage floor. The bolt was not discovered immediately, but a half hour or so later by a visiting neighbor on the carpet under the front passenger wheel well. I immediately examined all front areas underneath and around engine compartment that I could see with flashlight. Nothing missing. Wrote SOA a message with pictures, received reply stating that I should have car inspected by a dealer. We were very short on time...leaving for 2 1/2 months...and could not have it checked until today.
Today, with 257 miles on the car the results are in.....
Had this bolt not fallen out on my garage floor....I would have never known that I had a problem.
Sadly, and based on others input to this forum, no proactive action that I know of has been taken by Subaru to alert customers of a potential problem.....there are three bolts that hold the inter cooler piping in place.
However, I am very pleased with my dealers response and hopefully others may benefit by having this checked. Access to the inter cooler piping is not user friendly! Our vehicle was produced very early June 2018.
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