Povprašal sem tudi na subaruforester forumu in hkrati našel link do enakih težav. Eden od njih je napisal najbolj jasno. Boldal sem njegov opis težave (tema je sicer precej dolga in kar nekaj Foresterjev ima podobno težavo). Rešitev je menda v preprogramiranju programske opreme. Kar je pravzaprav enako, kot je napisal Snetaskira.
Nekateri so omenjali, da pomaga tudi menjava MAFa in možne težave pri O2 senzorju. Skratka - ni kar ni. Bom res Maruclju pokazal svojega (mislim Forija).
I've met other Forester owners who have it - I've also driven Foresters of people who have not noticed it and showed it to them in about 5 minutes - also test drove one off the lot and found it. The sales people will tell you its "normal" - well if normal is feeling that you are ridking a bull at the rodeo - sure its normal - but who wants their car to do that?
In a nutshell, if you driving in a performance oriented manner, say on a hill mountain road, and ease of the gas to get some engine braking (but don't entirely remove your foot from the gas), the system gets to a point where it can't decide if it wants to brake or accelerate, so it does both! - nice little feedback loop - and before you know it - you are lurching, sometimes quite violently.
I complained to my dealer, they played vague - finally spoke to the master mechanic - he said he'd check with head office, came back and said, thru the service manager that there was no service note related to this - I then asked again if they acknowledged that it was an issue - they sheeplishly admitted that it was a known issue with no fix.
In Canada we have a complaints arbitration board - and if you complain before the end of the first year, and the manufacturer doesn't fix it, the aribitrator can/may force them to refund your money. So I wrote Subaru a letter and said fix it now or take it back - wrote to the president of the dealership and the president of Subaru Canada. (email me at
subaru@interity.com if you require a copy of the letter).
That was April 2007. I received immediate reply that they would fix it.
2 weeks later I heard that Fuji Industries had sent some engineers from Japan to the US to chase it down.
In September 2007 they installed a newly programmed computer and the problem was gone. They said they were going to advise other owners and re-flash their computers.
I don't know what the fix was - what I see though is that when you take your foot off the gas, the rev's stay high - so I guess they programmed the computer to make the decision to keep providing gas and keep the revs up a bit longer It work fine, but at the cost of some of the fun of driving (ie I can't rely on engine braking in tight corners like
I used to).
Utlimately I can't imagine how Subaru has managed to keep this quiet for so long given the number of people I've met and cars I've driven that manifest it. I can't understand how it is that none of the independent testers have commented on this either. Perhaps its normal for a Subaru, but certainly not desirable in a car - and I can say for sure that if anyone test drove one and experience this normal feature, they would not buy the car. Clearly that's why the dealers around here play games with which cars you can drive and what route you can take it on.