silverlady

I just checked my repair slip; I had the right and left side valve cover gaskets replaced. Whatever those are that is what was written on my repair slip.

When I bought my car brand new, it came with a booklet that listed at what mileage and age certain servicing should be done. I have followed that with my local repair man. I took my car to the dealer for the it's very first oil change and the over filled the oil! So I took it back to them and they over filled it again, not once, not twice, but three times before they finally got it right! Thus I do not trust the dealer where I bought the car to work on the car for anything but warranty work. Now the it is out of warranty I do not go near the place. So if you are familiar with the service book, that is what I have been going by for maintenance service. That said, I had my 60,000 service done early due to my mostly in town driving. In that service, the radiator was flushed etc. No one ever mentioned at any time about a conditioner needing to be added. Oh and I do think it was the head gaskets as he talked about doing both sides (yah typical female I know, I don't remember the terms he used). I have had my car in the Subaru dealer ship for warranty issues when I had a warranty on it, and they never said anything about a conditioner being needed for my radiator. So this is total news to me. Do you have some sort of Subaru official document I can download from the internet which I can print out and show my 'guy'. I could then ask him if he put it in or not and ask him why he didn't know about it. Oh and by they way, my 60,000 mile service was done about 2 months ago! Please give me more info. THANKS A HEEP!:eek::eek:

Thanks for all of the input. The work is being done by my car repair guy. I will be the first to admit, I know nothing about cars, thus I am at his mercy, but there isn't much else I can do. Typical female there unfortuneately. I need to have my car, so it being down for even one day is a hardship. I have taken very good care of my car since I bought it brand new. Have had all required service done on time or sometimes ahead of time as I do tend to do a lot of around town driving (to and from work 3 miles away mostly). This is my first Subaru, and until now, I have really loved it, but now I have some doubts about it being a car I can keep for a long time. I have had Chevys in the past that were 6 cylinders and had gobs more mileage on them and I haven't had to do this kind of service to them. But I never bought them brand new either. All the used cars I bought in the past have had 60,000 plus milages on them when I bought them! Anyway, this is my first new car, so I do not know what to expect from it as far as things wearing out and when. Once again, thanks for your input and I hope my 'guy' isn't sticking it to me this time. Oh, do any of you know of other things I should be forewarned about concerning stuff that may wear out soon on my Subaru?:-\:-\

My 2004 Subaru Legacy has only 56,000 miles on it and I have to replace the valve gaskets on both sides! I was surprised by this by my car repair guy said this is common because the engine (4 cyl) runs so hot then get so cold here in NH. Does anyone out there have any input into this? I had no idea the Subarus had this kind of problem.