March 10, 200620 yr well this in reference to my moms 2002 Baja, the car has a persitant clack, clack, clack, clack. I mean its not horribly loud but I hear it when cold and hot. at low rpm and when acelerating it gets faster but tend to tone out at higher rpm. She has taken it to a private garage and they said is normal for subarus to do and sound like that:confused: . I am always working on cars at my fathers garage and have been around subarus to but not in one that new untill my mom got her Baja and never herd this. Should it be something to worry about I told her to take it back to the dealer and have them look at since its under warrenty. Sorry for the long post.
March 10, 200620 yr well this in reference to my moms 2002 Baja, the car has a persitant clack, clack, clack, clack. I mean its not horribly loud but I hear it when cold and hot. at low rpm and when acelerating it gets faster but tend to tone out at higher rpm. She has taken it to a private garage and they said is normal for subarus to do and sound like that:confused: . I am always working on cars at my fathers garage and have been around subarus to but not in one that new untill my mom got her Baja and never herd this. Should it be something to worry about I told her to take it back to the dealer and have them look at since its under warrenty. Sorry for the long post. Its called piston slap. Do a search on it. Take it back to the dealer and listen to another sooby on the lot with the same engine and year and compare. If it sounds the same its normal (since i cant hear it on the net). If it sounds louder make a HUGE stink and they will replace two pistons. nipper
March 10, 200620 yr Author well it gets louder as you go but then dies out, thanks though for the info.
March 10, 200620 yr well it gets louder as you go but then dies out, thanks though for the info. In your original post you said it made the noise hot and cold. If it makes sort of a "tock"-"tock" noise cold that diminishes as the engine warms up, that's classic Subaru piston slap. The dealer will feed you the "normal" B.S. line. Replacement pistons will get you out of the warranty period, but they will eventually slap as well. There is always the risk of an untrained monkey opening up the innards of your engine, too. Most of us just live with our original, slapping pistons. My '02 Outback slaps the least on cheap-azzed Walmart 5w30 oil.
March 10, 200620 yr I'm with Scoobaroo; learn to live with it and be perpetually disgusted by it, just like the rest of us. **** ******!
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