If it is, I’ll be trading it in for something better. I wonder if this is going to be an every 75,000 mile thing. That’s more than I - on a fixed income - bring home in a month. ![]() Recommend to reseal both sides with MOTOR OUT.” Quoted cost: $2838.12. Found oil leaking profusely from the left side cam carrier. The issue? “Verified oil leak is present. I said, “Since I’m already here, please check it out.” They did. When I went in last week for a LOF, they said I had an oil leak and were going to send me home. I regularly maintain my vehicle and have the dealership do the work and have had regular inspections at the required intervals. It handles well on snow and ice and is comfortable enough, but at 75,000 miles it is already costing me. So I expected great things when I bought my new 2018 Subaru Outback. I drove it everywhere and when I sold it there were over 300,000 miles on it. Regularly maintained, the only real issue I ever had with it was replacing rotors. Also, the car's tire pressure monitoring system now displays readouts for each individual tire, which increases convenience and safety.I previously owned a 2001 Subaru Outback which I bought used with 70,000 miles on it. Owners of pre-2018 Outbacks can rejoice in a basic but cool update-the addition of automatic locking/unlocking doors with a few customizable settings. If you stick with the Outback's integrated TomTom-based system, redundant directions can appear at the top of your instrument cluster screen (in addition to displaying on the 8.0-inch screen itself), and a pinch/pull zoom feature works just like it does on your phone. ![]() With those systems, as long as your compatible phone has service, you can voice-command text messages, easily get directions to places for which you only know the name and city, and make calls quickly. Subaru makes an easy-to-use 8.0-inch screen standard on every trim except the base model, which gets a 6.5-inch screen, yet even that trim gets Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. We wish the front seats had more aggressive bolstering, and maybe a next-gen Outback will shift the central infotainment screen higher on the center stack for better visibility. ![]() The materials are good, the faux matte wood looks decent, and the armrests between driver and front passenger as well as the ones on the doors are among the most comfortable you'll feel in any car at any price. ![]() Move to the front seats, and you'll find the 2018 Outback is a pleasant space to spend a commute. Because the Outback doesn't have an auto-hold braking feature like other cars with electronic parking brakes, I engaged the adaptive cruise control, rested my feet, and flicked the resume button any time the car ahead inched forward. Even so, the feature proved useful when I spent nearly half an hour trying to enter a Disneyland parking structure. The Outback's adaptive cruise control system works well and could be used on a regular basis, but I found it too aggressive when pulling away from a stop in traffic. Like front collision auto-brake systems, the reverse system (available on Limited, standard on Touring) can be helpful when you're backing out of a driveway or mall parking space with limited visibility, taking things one step further than the rear cross-traffic alert systems offered on lower-trim Subarus and from other automakers. The lane keeping assist system worked well in the real world, and we appreciate that Subaru offers a reverse automatic braking system. One of EyeSight's features can automatically apply the brakes to avoid or lessen the impact of a collision the system senses, and another feature can keep the vehicle from veering out of its lane. EyeSight is available on the Premium and Limited trims and standard on the top Touring trim.
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