I'm hard pressed to disagree - be it for Subaru
or any other brand/make.
But at the same time, since what
Snowgirl looking at now is a different issue altogether from what plagued her first attempt at the Ascent, it is also at the same time very hard for me as a car-lover to suggest that this is as easy a decision as that.
Factor in
Snowgirl's love for the vehicle, something which she'd repeatedly voiced both in this thread as well as others - which is something that I can relate to - and I really think that things become much harder.
What are the odds, right?
I’ve tried to look at other cars but I keep coming to the Ascent! When it’s gone I still wake up hoping they will call just like when I ordered the first one. It’s been an almost year nightmare I’m ready to have over. I’m already assigned a different senior manager so I’m hoping that’s a start! I just truly want this car but don’t want to be naive after 2 bad ones. Maybe I will get this one back in a couple weeks and never have another issue. Just hard to say.
Right?
At least that's what we ALL hope - that you'll get the vehicle back with the head-unit, sourced from a completely different supplier - and that you'll never have another day's worth of issues with this vehicle.
But then again, as a realist, it's also not impossible that this issue could continue to drag on, or even, alternatively, that a new and again unrelated issue could do the same. Or that if you did choose to Lemon your second, that a third (bless you for your persistence and optimism, if nothing else! :lol: ) won't also be an uphill battle - or at the very least not the problem-free experience that you're looking for (and, for crying out loud, DESERVE!).
In the end, no matter how exactingly our vehicles are built to-specs and even if everything fits nominally within tolerances, each and every of our unique Ascents are just that...and nothing is average.
Of our 9 new Subarus since 2005 - and when we include my in-laws, that number goes to 13 - only my wife's '09 Forester XT had a significant mechanical issue: a new longblock, courtesy of the '09 turbo-engine "Stop Sale" fallout. One of the 4 Legacys in my in-laws' list eventually ended up with a new head-unit (and as with many others' testimonies in various online Subaru communities, this was a months-long fix that tested my FIL's patience), and this was the only significant non-mechanical fix that any of our Subarus required.
Aside from the EyeSight of my wife's new '19 WRX CVT - I think - needing to be checked out and a passenger-side airbag unit replacement being required on my '13 Tribeca needing to be swapped out, our Subarus have been absolutely reliable and dependable for each of the 3-year (and my '05 Legacy 2.5GT, which was among the first to be ECUTeK'ed and spent most of her 7 years with me at typical "Stage II+"), 12K miles lease cycles as true daily-drivers.
It does make the decision much harder, when you truly love the vehicle.........