I have a very good friend who owns a 2011 4 th Gen. Outback with the EJ NA.
She has 105K miles on it and its coming time to do the TB. My advice to her will be to replace everything if she plans on keeping the vehicle say another 50K miles. If she plans on maybe another year (25K miles for her) max. I will tell her to replace the TB and possibly the tensioner. As such I will get a price on (1). TB only (2) TB + idler and (3) Idlers, WP, Tensioner, etc. I realize that there is some risk in going 25K miles with TB + Idler.
Also I have pulled an oil sample and sent it in.
Also my understanding is that the 2011 HG's are unlikely to fail unless you allow them to run out of coolant. So it would be worthwhile checking them and if they are leaking coolant then its trade-in time. She has the bucks..and she wants a Prius .
I have posted the question on subaruoutback.org. Any better information out there? I trust the knowledge on this forum a lot.
Any thoughts on these issues?
Thanks,
Al
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She has 105K miles on it and its coming time to do the TB. My advice to her will be to replace everything if she plans on keeping the vehicle say another 50K miles. If she plans on maybe another year (25K miles for her) max. I will tell her to replace the TB and possibly the tensioner. As such I will get a price on (1). TB only (2) TB + idler and (3) Idlers, WP, Tensioner, etc. I realize that there is some risk in going 25K miles with TB + Idler.
Also I have pulled an oil sample and sent it in.
Also my understanding is that the 2011 HG's are unlikely to fail unless you allow them to run out of coolant. So it would be worthwhile checking them and if they are leaking coolant then its trade-in time. She has the bucks..and she wants a Prius .
I have posted the question on subaruoutback.org. Any better information out there? I trust the knowledge on this forum a lot.
Any thoughts on these issues?
Thanks,
Al
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