[First285]

Maybe a Subaru thing... I’m used to the oil filter being located on the bottom of the engine. The Ascent’s is on top, near the coolant resevoir.

Does Subaru always have the oil filter on top?

 

[Jimmy D]

Maybe a Subaru thing... I’m used to the oil filter being located on the bottom of the engine. The Ascent’s is on top, near the coolant resevoir.

Does Subaru always have the oil filter on top?

My last two Foresters had it on top, I think they started about 2015 or 16. Super nice.

 

[norway]

They started earlier than that, 2010 or earlier I think.

 

[scooby]

This is the first car I've had with the filter up top but I've read that it makes oil changes super easy. Going to the be pretty nervous the first time not knowing where the oil flows.

 

[wireedm]

This is one more reason to love Subaru vehicles.

 

[Burutoo]

This is the first car I've had with the filter up top but I've read that it makes oil changes super easy. Going to the be pretty nervous the first time not knowing where the oil flows.

Makes changing oil a breeze. So long as you’ve drained from below fully there is hardly any mess up top at the filter. A quick wipe down of the tray it sits in and twist on new one and away you go!

 

[PhantomTypist]

If you want to make the draining easy too grab a Fumoto drain plug valve. I'm not sure which one will fit the Ascent of the top of my head though.

Fumoto® USA | Quick and Easy Engine Oil Drain Valves

 

[scooby]

Makes changing oil a breeze. So long as you’ve drained from below fully there is hardly any mess up top at the filter. A quick wipe down of the tray it sits in and twist on new one and away you go!

Beautiful! Paired with the fumoto valve and oil changes will be so fast

 

[SyAscent]

FA engine has the oil filter on top (i.e FA20DIT in 2015+ WRX's, 2014+ Forester XT's) and now the new FA24DIT engine in 2019 Ascent's

 

[Trey T]

The oil filter location is quite nice. There's a popularity with using oil extractor, evacuating oil thru dipstick hole, which makes oil changing a breeze on Subarus.

 

[meyeracer06]

FA engine has the oil filter on top (i.e FA20DIT in 2015+ WRX's, 2014+ Forester XT's) and now the new FA24DIT engine in 2019 Ascent's

The FB20/FB25 engines also have the oil filter on top (2012+ Impreza, 2011+ Forester, 2013+ Legacy / Outback, 2013+ Crosstrek). All BRZ's also have the top mounted oil filter on its FA20 engine.

 

[Jason]

First Subaru to put it up top was the 2011 Forester.

 

[Sparkland]

My 2018 Subaru Outback 3.6 has the filter underneath - what a normal car.

 

[Jason]

My 2018 Subaru Outback 3.6 has the filter underneath - what a normal car.

Ha ha, I always wondered why they never moved the 3.6 up top.

 

[Trey T]

My 2018 Subaru Outback 3.6 has the filter underneath - what a normal car.

So normal that Porsche changed their engine design in 2009 to feature similar to your engine. :grin::tango_face_wink:

 

[meyeracer06]

Ha ha, I always wondered why they never moved the 3.6 up top.

Same reason the EJ257 in the STI still has it's oil filter underneath, they are OLD engines lol. Too bad there probably won't be a new iteration of the H6

 

[Jason]

Same reason the EJ257 in the STI still has it's oil filter underneath, they are OLD engines lol. Too bad there probably won't be a new iteration of the H6

Yeah, Subaru has done everything short of putting our a press release saying that this new 2.4 is going to replace the 3.6 in the Legacy and Outback.

 

[crowdc]

I doubt the H6 will ever come back. I am surprised the new STI's are running such an old engine while the WRX is on the FA20F. You would think they would move to DI already. Who knows, maybe the FA24 (or FA25? lol) will go into the 2020 WRX STI

 

[SubieDriver]

I think they've kept the old 2.5 in the STI because they get raced. The durability and weak points of that engine are known. I'm sure they wanted to get a few years of people tuning the FA and FB motors to see how they hold up and see what breaks. Once they've been in the field for a few years they have better data on reliability.

 

[Robert.Mauro]

They started earlier than that, 2010 or earlier I think.

I wish. My 2010 Outback was bottom. lain: