MickW

Does tend to happen more with half a tank or less. Also doesnt seem to happen when AirCo / Climate control is turned off. Found some stuff in forums here in Australia, we they are saying that it may be caused by poor earthing, and suggest adding some earth straps various parts around the engine bay. (Strut towers, Heads). Apparently Subaru Aust have announced a Product Recall for a very similar problem in WRX's 03-05.

It is not standard practise for Subaru to replace then tensioner when they replace the Timing Belt. The timing belt in my MY99 was replaced at scheduled interval (105,000 Klm). When I received the car back, it began to flash the Check Engine light on randomly. When light was on, car lost almost all power, no fault codes were ever recorded (So Subaru Australia continually advised me). (After Six months of persistence with Subaru Australia, they finally concluded that the tensioner needed to be replaced, which was not usually replaced unless required when timing belt is replaced) A quick phone around Dealers accross Australia kinda confirmed this. There were no Tensioners for my model in Australia, one had to be brought in from Japan to fix my car.

I have a 06 Impreza 2.0R Manual Sedan, purchased New 3 months ago (My third new Subaru, We currently have an 06 ForresterX as well). It currently has 10,000 Klm. Since 5,000 Klm, (when I started to drive the car harder), it is either flooding or starving for fuel when exiting corners with heavy throttle. Mainly happens on right hand corners. When heavy throttle is applied exiting corner, the revs drop from 5000 RPM to 3500 RPM, with the car decelerating. Once you straighten the car up, the motor will begin to accelerate, (although with less performance than normal, and continues to run poor for the next couple of Klm's) Subaru Australia, so far have been unable to "Find" the fault, and continually blame my driving ability . (Funny my 2000 Liberty 2.5RX did not have the same problem, and my 06 Forrester X does not exhibit the same problem) Can anybody help?