GottaLuvSubaru

To all of you who responded with suggestions to this nightmare.. I thank you. After many many many weeks of my car being in the shop, they finally said that they thought it was the head gaskets and I would need to take the car somewhere else. Funny, that's what I told them the problem was when I took the car in to begin with. Anyway, I took the car back to the dealership where I purchased it and sure enough it was the head gaskets. I've learned my lesson and from now on I will only let the dealership work on my car. Now for a small bit of advertisement. The owner cut me a huge break on fixing this car, so much to the point that she, yes she, took a loss. If anyone here is ever in Central Pennsylvania and are looking to buy a used Subaru... go to Williamsport Auto Sales on Lycoming Creek Road. They have a website and I do believe if you type in the business name in the search engine.. you'll find the website. The owner is amazing. For starters, she is about as honest as the day is long and once you become a customer she hopes to keep you as customer for a very long time. I WOULD send my worst enemy to Williamsport Auto Sales to buy a car.

I am hoping that someone can help me with this. I have a 1995 Subaru Legacy Sedan that is overheating and right now no one knows why. Here's the situation. The beginning of November I was coming home from a road trip when the car overheated and stalled. I coasted to the side of the road. The car was towed back to a friends house where he added a sealer of some sort and said it would be fine to drive home. I did so with no heat and pulling over about once an hour when the temp gauge started to rise. Upon arriving home my father noticed that the plastic piece on the passenger side of the radiator, where the hose clamps on, was shredded. So the next day he replaced the radiator and the thermostat. I didnt use the car over the weekend and Monday it ran fine. Tuesday it started to overheat again and by Thursday it was in the shop. When it over heats and you shut the car off it is blowing the coolant out. The shop said it was the radiator cap. Bought a new one of those. Still overheated. Then they said the radiator wasnt getting hot all over and it was blocked. So a second radiator was put in. Still overheated. Next they said it was the water pump, but when they took that off and looked at it, the water pump is fine. So they reinstalled that and called the dealership. The dealership said it was the head gaskets. The shop said they ran their tests and went over the check list and the car is not doing anything that would indicate that it's the head gaskets. So after fours weeks in the shop I am getting my car back unfixed and taken it to someone else. Does anyone here have any suggestions or can add any light on this situation?

If the 2000 Legacy is anything like my 1995 Legacy removing the trim around the radio can be quite amusing. In my legacy, I had to pull out the cup holder above the radio and remove the screw on either side to remove the cup holder. Then, I had to lift the center arm rest cover and remove two screws from there. That releases the cover around the parking brake which then releases the cover around the shifter. Finally if you pull out and remove the ashtray there is one or two screws that need removed from there. After all of that, you should be able to remove the trim and get to the radio. Once replacing the radio, we had to cut away some of the trim to fit around the new radio. My trim literally sits against the trim around the face place, to the point that remove the face plate from the radio makes it difficult to replace it so I just leave my face plate on. I figure there is only one way that radio is coming out and if someone wants to go through all the hassle of removing the trim to get to the radio... they can darn thing. Also, not sure if you are replacing the radio to update or because the current one stopped working. If it is because the current one stopped working, which is why I replaced mine, be aware (as we found out after the fact) there is a fuse in the fuse box under the steering wheel AND there is a fuse for the radio in the fuse box under the hood. Had we known about the fuse under the hood in the beginning, I more than likely wouldnt have needed the new radio. Hope that helps.