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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
July 2002
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Subaru Auto Gearbox Help
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Mon, 03 October 2005 07:05
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Hi,
the missus has a 2000 Liberty auto, which we've had for 2 years or so.
For a while, when you first put it in drive, you'd need to prod the accelerator just a touch and then it would sort-of jump into forward motion. You'd hit the accel, there would be nothing - the engine free-revved a bit, then drive would engage. Once going though, it was fine, shifting smoothly etc.
Anyhow - on the weekend - it had a REALLY hard time getting going after being started for the first time. It would start moving in reverse OK, but didn't want to go forwards at all - either in park, 1, 2, 3 or drive. We did the usual - turn off, restart, jiggle the gear lever in case it was a bad sensor etc - and it finally got going - time to get it sorted.
We rang a local (ex-subaru dealer) service place and they said to take it to Subaru Service and to ask for a "good-will" price on the gearbox replacement as it was a known fault. When we got the car to Subaru - they did not aknowledge the "known fault" but put in a good-will form anyway. We're pretty sure we mentioned the issue to Subaru when we last sent it there for a service (back when we still had a warranty) - but they didn't have it on record.
Now - to the point.
Anyone know of a user group/forum where I may find info as to whether the gearbox is known fault or not? This is in case they knock back the good-will price. We're up for a full gearbox replacement and it's nearly $4K.
Google (well the string I used) hasn't turned up a site that has what I want - Can anyone help?
Frankie
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