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I've replaced the brake-pads (front & rear) on my 2017 Forester. And with no problems. But my Forester has the old-style hand-brake lever - no electronic brake gizmos.

I’ve done front and rear brakes on my ‘15, ‘17 and my sons ‘17 Legacy’s and I’ve never had any issues afterwards. Maybe an Outback thing. On these 3, I replaced pads and rotors.

Is this where some guy chimes in to break your stones about not having a reciprocating saw? Oh wait that’s FB Cool deal. I’m with you for having as opposed to finding out later you have not. You can trash it when the job is done I always say. Keep up the good work. This is very likely on my horizon.

Is yours still operated from the factory control box? If so here is a schematic diagram of what's inside. I think most people throw this away completely and run it off a DPDT toggle switch. Mine had a problem which required me to replace one of the relays inside and one of the electrolytic capacitors. I can't remember what the problem was exactly, it was a while ago, 2016 Need to be handy with the soldering iron for this option. The relay on the left of the image below. I ordered one from an online supplier like Mouser or RS components IIRC. It turned out to be too big but I made it work anyway. Still working to this day.

Oh herro, that's my thread that I had actually forgotten about... For the linkage - Disconnect the link altogether, manually push that lever on the side of the transmition to Park, and set the shifter inside up to Park (get a 2nd person) and lock it back up there if you suspect it may need adjustment. As for the shifting problem, for me it was my Governor Valve, HOWEVER, it wasn't the G.V. itself, it turned out to be the drive gear on the end of it. When I removed it the drive was 'applecored', so like a moron I thought "its got 230000kms on it, probably worn out, she'll be right" and swapped in another gear out of a 3AT FWD I had laying about, not knowing that they are actually different. Took it out for a fang and all seemed ok. Two days and about 230 kms later, same deal. Accelerating up a hill, then nothing. Limped home and inspected the new governor and its chewed out as well. So I decided to do some investigating into what surface the drive gear of the governor runs on. This has the governor valve drive gear that chewed out circled. And this one details the Reduction Gear which the Governor is driven from. Images taken from the parts manual uploaded by Willy Fisterbottom. And this last one is taken from Transmax Australia's catalogue. This is a really good picture that shows the Helix that the Governor is driven off. I still have not gotten around to pulling my gearbox out and tearing it down or else I would upload the photos of whats going on in there. At this stage I can only assume that there is some foreign material or a chipped tooth on that reduction gear. If I were you, id pull the G.V., check it out and clean it, see if the drive gear is applecored. If it is, id be starting to chase another 3AT. Good luck.