jlee
Lifer
- Sep 12, 2001
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The problem is that the catalyst has a finite life... granted, there are three on my H6, and I think two on the 2.5i that my wife has...
I just had the dealer tell me they needed to change the transmission fluid... (Which I had changed 20k miles ago.) So I asked them, how did you arrive at that conclusion? Does is look dark? Does it smell burnt? I changed it 20,000 miles ago, and the recommended interval is about 35K per change... so how did you arrive at this conclusion? (-crickets-)
"We assumed it was time to change it.."
I'm starting to have a love / hate relationship with Subaru. With other vehicles there are CLEARLY defined maintenance intervals, and with everything, except the oil, Subaru just tells the dealer to wing it.
So now I'm sending everything out to a lab. I change the transmission fluid, a sample goes to the lab. I change the break fluid, sample to the lab... I change the engine oil, sample to the lab...
I'm going to treat this car like a tractor-trailer and effectively get blood work on it.
I'm gonna go with "not likely" on that one.
http://www.cars101.com/subaru/maintenance-2013.html
Your user's manual doesn't list maintenance intervals?