Posted by Anonymous
There are FOUR Subaru vehicles in our household. Yes four! Two of them we own outright and another two are headed vehicles. We are very happy with our 2019 Forester Sport, as well as with the two Impreza hatchbacks that are sons are driving. Our 2012 Legacy Premium is another story. The build quality of that vehicle is below the standard set by virtually all other Japanese auto manufacturers. It is a noisy, unexceptional vehicle -?and one that as we approach 100,000 miles that was misrepresented by the salesman at Liberty Subaru of Emerson, NJ as never needing to have its timing belt (an expensive job) replaced because my wife and I were assured that unlike similar sedans made by Honda, Nissan, Toyota etc. that Subaru Legacy's have a steel timing belt rather than a rubber one that needs replacing. Perhaps our sales rep was misinformed, but now that my wife and I are retired and on fixed incomes, we are now learning that we need to either pay a large fee to maintain the engine timing belt (made of rubber) or dump the car. We are not happy, and while our other Subarus are working fine, out next car is not likely going to be a Subaru.