First of all thank you
I may have been under estimating but not by too much
I drive to the train and back M-F, 2 miles each way for about 20 miles and maybe to a store or a friends house on weekend still may average 35 miles a week tops. i will also drive it from NJ to Staten Island once a month to visit my parents and thats 1 hour each way.
I did plan on using the car more often which is why I put the new timing belt on but this new problem with the bad MPT has got me worried about driving it to much or too far from home. He stated that it is a chip and not the tranny issue but the only problem now is a tiny shake when I make a turn caused by the 4 wheel drive and I would like to get it fixed as I had this car checked by good mechanic and he told me that it was in great shape , not any problems for a 96 car with 133,000 miles but that these 4 cylinder subarus ran for over 200,000 easily and it was worth alot more than the $2800 i paid . I did a search online and they got for about $5000 - $6000 for similar car with similar miles. saw one , same year , same milage that sold for $7000.
I want to get 3 good years out of it but do I really need to worry about this MPT chip thing and what does he mean by burning everything?