Yesterday, while driving my '13 Outback 2.5, moments after setting the cruise control, the cc suddenly disengaged, and my IP lit up. The Check Engine light came on steady, the Brake light started flashing, and the Cruise Control light started flashing. I pulled off the road, and turned the ignition off for a short while, and the restarted the car. The same lights came back on. The car still drove normally, so I drove home. On the way, I attempted to engage the cruise control, and it would not engage.
When I got home I ran diagnostics on it and got a plethora of error codes. There were so many that I didn't get them recorded, but some were from the ECM, there was a brake system error, a transmission error, and a steering angle sensor error. Since the codes were all over the place, and I didn't know if they were all new and related to this incident, or which, if any, were old, I decided to clear all the codes, drive the car some more, and see which, if any errors came back. Clearing the codes also cleared the trouble lights on the IP, and allowed the cc to function again. All back to normal.
I drove the car this morning, repeatedly engaging the cc, increasing and decreasing the set point, and disengaging and re-engaging the c/c. Everything functioned normally. I got home and ran another diagnostic. No codes. No trouble lights.
My plan is to continue to drive it as normal, and run diagnostic on it often, to see if any codes come back. But I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this same condition on a Gen 4 Outback or Legacy. Or any other Subaru of similar age. If yes, what was your experience? Did codes come back? Did you have to repair anything? Or is it just a weird fluke, never to happen again?
This is real weird for my car. With 155k miles on the odometer, it has been rock solid. The only repair I've had to do is replace burned out puddle lights. (No surprise there. Bad design.) So I don't know what to make of this.
When I got home I ran diagnostics on it and got a plethora of error codes. There were so many that I didn't get them recorded, but some were from the ECM, there was a brake system error, a transmission error, and a steering angle sensor error. Since the codes were all over the place, and I didn't know if they were all new and related to this incident, or which, if any, were old, I decided to clear all the codes, drive the car some more, and see which, if any errors came back. Clearing the codes also cleared the trouble lights on the IP, and allowed the cc to function again. All back to normal.
I drove the car this morning, repeatedly engaging the cc, increasing and decreasing the set point, and disengaging and re-engaging the c/c. Everything functioned normally. I got home and ran another diagnostic. No codes. No trouble lights.
My plan is to continue to drive it as normal, and run diagnostic on it often, to see if any codes come back. But I wanted to see if anyone else has experienced this same condition on a Gen 4 Outback or Legacy. Or any other Subaru of similar age. If yes, what was your experience? Did codes come back? Did you have to repair anything? Or is it just a weird fluke, never to happen again?
This is real weird for my car. With 155k miles on the odometer, it has been rock solid. The only repair I've had to do is replace burned out puddle lights. (No surprise there. Bad design.) So I don't know what to make of this.