We bought our wonderful Outback last July and have LOVED it up until a few months ago. It has a little over 100K miles. We got it from a dealership and it only had one owner. No service records, but knew it needed the 90k service.
I found a local non-dealer mechanic who was referred by another subaru owner. We had the service done. A bit after picking it up I started to notice a whine. I thought it was the belt needing tightening. I took it back, he checked the belts... they were fine. I had him drive it. His conclusion was that the breaks needed replacing... apparently there is a break sensor that was rubbing the wheel's rotor. Hubby and I think that maybe when they checked the breaks that something got knocked loose. Regardless, we had all 4 pads replaced and he smoothed out the rotor.
A noise returned... as the days/weeks went on it continued to get louder. Finally I took it back. He drove it, etc. and said it was the bearings (still the driver's side). So he goes into replace those. Once in he says the hub is loose and it needs to be replaced (an EXPENSIVE part). So we got the driver's side hub and bearings replaced. That was a week ago.
Last night the driver's side started making noise again, but only when turning the steering wheel to the right.
We are very frustrated and have spent a lot of money. Any ideas as to what is wrong?
