My FXT is supposed to use the special orange fluid, but even Subaru dealers get really confused about what to use and I'm pretty sure I got the wrong stuff at my 60kmile servicing. I started throwing transmission codes around 80kmiles and the mechanic made an offhand comment to me over the phone about it having the proper green fluid from 60k while they were fixing the CVT. I realized after I got the car back that he mentioned the wrong color, called back in and was told by an advisor after a long time on hold that everything was OK.
About half an hour later, the mechanic called me directly again and said he was sorry, but I had to bring the car back to him. They were giving me a loaner, so it wasn't a huge deal. I'm sure they finally figured out they were using the wrong fluid, I'll bet any FXT or WRX with a CVT was getting the wrong fluid from that dealer for a long time.
Guess I will figure out how to do the change and buy the right fluid myself, assuming I still have the car in a couple of years.
BTW, the '14 and some '15 FXTs have a problematic CVT design and an updated tranny with a filter added was introduced as a flying change during the production of the '15s. The filter cannot be retrofitted, guess this is my punishment for being an "early adopter"...my CVT warranty was extended to 100kmiles, hopefully any other problems that are planning to show up will occur in the next ~15kmiles or it's going to be on my dime.
Don't believe the 2.5l Foresters with CVTs have this issue, BTW...so strange to me that they were making the NA cars with a manual but it wasn't an option for the turbos.
