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For that matter, is amatuerish white the only daytime color available for the dash?
Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?
I find the red much, much easier on the eyes at night. And white seems perfectly suitable to daylight. Why would Subaru screw around with something that works just fine?
1. There are now 2 distinct rattles in the dash. The first is on the passenger side by the dash speaker. It sounds like a screw came loose and is rattling around in it's holder. This rattle comes and goes depending on the smoothness of the road.
2. The second rattle sounds like it is somewhere in the center of the dash. This also comes and goes depending on road conditions.
3. Durability of the seat material looks to be very poor in both front and rear seats.
I mentioned the rattles at the 3500 mile service but the dealer could not duplicate my concerns.
Anyone have a similar experience?
Interior rattles are a way of life for Subaru. Fortunately, the dealer should be able to take care of the initial ones, but others will eventually (as in a few months after the 3/36 warranty) replace them. It is the one thing I really haven't liked about any of the four Subaru vehicles I have owned. :mad:
it's a tick-tick-tick sound that comes at certain temperatures which suggest that something is expanding and contracting which allows things to have more or less play. initially, i heard it only when the car was cool (in CA that means 65 oF in my garage). after the car was in the sun, it would go away. now, it's not there when the car is cool, but is some intermediate temperature.
i can make the sound go away if i apply pressure between the dash assembly and the instrumentation cluster. i *think* the sound is coming from within the instrumentation cluster. my theory is that when that dash panel moves under the right temperature conditions, the dash cluster moves at some clip or another point and it squeaks/ticks. i thought i could deaden the behavior by sticking a piece of cardboard between the two pieces but that doesn't seem to help. i think my hand stops it because it is able to hold everything rigid. i think in the end, the rattle is "way up" into the instrument cluster so not easily fixable. i'd love to have the dealer fix it, but i am guessing that will only have a small chance of occurring if the problem becomes more persistent and regular so i can duplicate it consistently and have it occur when i bring the car in and have it remain while they test drive it. sigh...
my other rattles (which i'm getting more used to) include something on the passenger side near the seat belt. i'm now guessing its actually the roof rail outside. this is only there when the car is "cool," but goes away pretty quickly and doesn't seem to come back even as the evening hours hit and if my car was parked outside. but i think i'm also getting better at ignoring it.
i had some noises in the A pillars which i have pretty much cured by better bracing the A pillars from the windows (stuffed a piece of cardstock on one side, and a felt circle on the other) and also putting foam tape to remove play in a small piece of panel outside of the car at the base of the windshield.
i'd be so ecstatic if i could get rid of the first rattle as i think that's the only one that continues to annoy me. i can handle the other occasional ones...
I found that simply pushing down on the speaker cover solved the rattle briefly. But I expect it to recur when road conditions provoke it.
YMMV, but it's likely you rattles are similar to mine and can be fixed. (the tweeter is held down by two screws (can't recall if they were phillips or flat) that for me are plenty tight (i replaced my tweeters)....those speaker panels can also be carefully pride up from the front edge so you can see what i'm talking about regarding how the A-pillar and that trim piece fit together.
I will try some felt to see if that helps. I have a 2002 GMC sierra that has a dash rattle that only
occurs when the temp is below freezing( I live in Wisconsin). Once the cab is warmed up the rattle is gone.
While the car is under warranty I won't do anything too drastic but I would like to solve these
annoying issues. I do most of the normal maintenance on my vehicles so I won't be going back to the dealer unless I really need to.
Do the speaker covers just pop off? I would like to get them off without breaking them.
Thanks for all the posts.
P.S. the subie replaced my wife's mini as you may have already guessed.
take a flat screwdriver (thin one) and tuck it on the front face, maybe 1 inch in from the "inwards corner" and pry up so you can get your fingers under it and gently tug upward. that front edge will pop up and then you can pull the whole cover forward and out. to put it back in: reverse: push it inwards (towards the windshield) so that the "teeth/male ends go into the holes/female end on the dash and then push down.
probably too much detail that isn't super clear, but hopefully somewhat helpful...
Bob
The '09 Forester had only two bad rattles: One in each front door. The car was perfectly silent the first 500 miles I owned it, but by the time I made it home at 2,200 miles, both front doors were singing to their own tunes. Again, the dealer took care of those (apparently common and well-documented issues on the '09 and '10 Foresters) on the first visit.
During the 3/36 warranty, I listen for rattles as much as possible. Now that I'm out of 3/36, I wish I could turn that part of my hearing off. Thankfully, the only thing that rattles consistently now is something in the moonroof assembly, but it is just above my head, so it can get pretty annoying.
Yeah, I don't like to visit the dealer either. In the case of rattles, I figure if it costs Subaru enough money to fix those sorts of preventable issues, they might tweak their manufacturing techniques to avoid the problems in the first place. On the contrary, if I spend my time finding and fixing them myself, they have no incentive at all to make the issues better for future buyers.
i think if i could get rid of the one in my dash, i can live with any other intermittent rattle. it's the rattles that are in close proximity that have a way of really getting on my nerves.
3 times I've had a humming noise from the rear of the car. All three times the car is parked, and keys out of the ignition. Engine hasn't been running for hours. The hum is from the rear underside. My best guess is fuel pump. But why would it start running when the car is off??? Put the key in the ignition and turn to ACC and back off and the noise stops.
http://www.cars101.com/subaru/impreza/impreza2013.html#whats_new
>>Glad you love your car! Where did you see info on the '13s? We are waiting to >>get one and dealer can't order until the end of the month. Patience, patience.....
Another goofball "feature" of Subaru vehicles is that the window lock button on the driver door locks out not only the passenger windows, but also locks out the driver from being able to operate those windows unless the lock is removed.
The driver buttons should always work... the lock should be for the others only.
Heck, my family had a 1985 Camry that did the lockout correct!
I had a 2011 Fiesta at home last night on an "overnight test drive," and was pleasantly surprised to find that it, too, allowed the driver to control the windows while locking out the other occupants. I have owned Subaru vehicles for so long that I had almost passed off the more useful approach as mere legend.
This feature might not sound all that useful, but when you have annoying children who refuse to listen to voice commands, it is a true blessing. :P
I would not have a dealer do the install unless they do it for next to nothing. Our local dealer quoted $225 to my wife. My buddy did it for $40.
for the second time, my passenger front window failed to work today. the last time it occurred, shutting off the car and "restarting" got rid of the problem. all other three windows work, and the window is inoperable from either the passenger control or the driver's control.
based on the prior intermittency, i thought it might be some weird freak occurrence, but now that it has happened again, and i can't get it working, i guess it points to a bigger problem. guess i need to make an appointment with the dealer, but i thought i'd check in with you guys first to see if anyone has had this issue, too.
This is probably acceptable unless your drive in "harsh" conditions. Unfortunately, Subaru's definition of "harsh" is pretty conservative, so driving in dusty conditions, or driving near the ocean where the humidity and salt levels are high, or driving in extreme heat or cold, and so on, are considered harsh.
Basically, Subaru (and other manufacturers, I'm sure) define "harsh" very loosely as a way of possibly denying warranty coverage. So an owner thinks he's following the manufacturer's recommended service interval, only to have the manufacturer tell him that he didn't because he should have been following the "harsh" schedule. Excuse me for being cynical, but I am, not because Subaru has tried to screw me, but rather because VW did on my last car.
Anyway, I plan to use a 5k oil change interval because I prefer to err on the side of caution, and because I don't want Subaru to accuse me of not doing my part to take care of the car.
7500 miles is probably fine, but I'll be doing mine more frequently. I do oil changes myself as a way of saving money, so I don't mind this task.
So far, the car (and oil) is very happy with this schedule. I average about a half-quart of make-up oil over that interval. Considering that I spend about $80 a year on oil change costs (including the analysis), I don't necessarily save money over a 7,500-mile schedule. But, I do save time (at least half!) and I know much more about what's going on inside my engine than were I to just do oil changes more often and skip the analysis.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with other methodologies, mind you, just tossing in other options for new owners.
More often would be a waste of time and resources.