Subaru Boxer Diesel?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Are they are bad as reputed?

 

Broken cranks, multitudes of other engine problems?

 

Shame, real shame...

[GardenKit]

Not too many problems discussed on the Subaru owners forum John, so may be not much of a problem since the 2007-2009 batch.

 

Anyway, why not go petrol? The boxer petrols are just so well proven.

I just bought a Forester XT, well impressed, but don't expect it to be frugal on fuel.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Not too many problems discussed on the Subaru owners forum John, so may be not much of a problem since the 2007-2009 batch.

 

Anyway, why not go petrol? The boxer petrols are just so well proven.

I just bought a Forester XT, well impressed, but don't expect it to be frugal on fuel.

 

It needs to be as good as possible on juice, plus I simply have to be moved by compression-ignition.

[TIMON]

It needs to be as good as possible on juice, plus I simply have to be moved by compression-ignition.

 

 

Don't discount the petrol ones. We've got a 51 plate Forrester. It's been faultless. We've always tried to go the diesel route but after much disappointment (never quite as cheap as they are meant to be) we thought we'd give a reputable Japanese petrol a try and haven't looked back. Some of the 2.0l petrols do 500k plus.

 

 

Timon

 

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose"