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I am totally comfortable with my decision to purchase this car. The PO stated many times over that we was glad I showed up. They were stationing to a northeastern air force base , were leaving in two weeks, just had a baby and can’t take two cars on base. I told him that I felt like I stole it and he repeatedly told me how much I was helping them too.

I'm thinking that after the pandemic there are a lot of people in rough shape, families that have lost people and some opportunities like this as well as predatory buyers. Let's hope most people know how to get top dollar for their cars.

Yeah those cars have BAD transmission issues. Valve bodies, torque converters, wiring harnesses, and often times the whole transmission. About $8500 for transmission replacement. I tell customers to avoid those models like the plague - the 6 speed manual is the way to go for those years. But they also frequently have head gasket failures resulting in overheating - they used the 770 gaskets from the factory but something about the installation of them didn't work out I guess. Kindof odd actually - it's just the 10-12 Legacy models with the weird final years of the SOHC belt engine that have that problem. Then you stack the CVT failures on top of it and they are absolute piles of trash. Incidentally Subaru is now ranked like 20th for reliability - even below Mercedes an Volkswagen. 😂 https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2022-us-vehicle-dependability-study