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Vehicle on highway and street, the head gasket is leaking heavily and causing the oil to leak onto the engine. The pistons will seize. The rods will break and a blown engine will occur.
Vehicle spontaneously caught on fire causing while accelerating at approximately 45 mph. Fire caused extensive damage to cv shaft boot, wire harness and transmission. Cause of fire is unknown.
1. takata -tried to see if my car is part of class action autoairbagsettlement.com wouldn't take my VIN; glitch. 2. head gaskets - it was know that their head gaskets are an issue causing (me & many) to have to have them replaced costing $2000+; it seems this should be reimbursable and a recalled item. Respectfully request you consider this.
The contact owns a 2007 Subaru Legacy. While driving various speeds, a burnt rubber and plastic odor emitted the vehicle. The vehicle overheated without warning. In addition, the dashboard became extremely hot and caused the fuses to fail. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that the air pump failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16V738000 (electrical system). The failure mileage was 44,000.
Subaru knows they have any issue with their head gaskets and they have never recalled them. I had to put head gaskets in at 100,000 now the head gaskets need to be done 20,000 miles later. Why were they never forced to recall their cars with this issue?
- Oakland, NJ, USA
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The contact owns a 2007 Subaru Legacy. The contact stated that while the vehicle being serviced, the technician advised that the head gasket was leaking and needed to be replaced. The manufactured was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure and current mileage was 90,000.
The contact owns a 2007 Subaru Legacy. The contact stated that the vehicle did not respond properly to acceleration attempts. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was confirmed that the valve cover gasket was fractured and needed to be replaced. The failure recurred approximately one year later and was again taken to the dealer where it was found that the head gasket had failed. The vehicle was repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and offered to assist with the repair costs. The failure mileage was approximately 58,503. The current mileage was approximately 63,000.
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- Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA