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Originally Posted by mabrywes
I have a 2004 4Runner with a HG issue. I have 260k on the car now, 165k that I have put on the car. Car is now running hot and I have survived the shakes of a bad head gasket as well. I have put one bottle of blue devil in and it has helped me get another 30k on my car. I am to the point of letting it go and buying a low mileage Subaru from a friend of mine, I dont want to get stranded on the side of the road and Ill probably cry. This is my baby and my first car I ever drove. To fix or use as my around town car...
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Have you ever owned a Subaru? I have owned two of them and will never own another one. I have had several friends who owned Subarus. Every single one had a blown head gasket. It has been a problem for them for many years, across multiple generations of cars. The one on our Outback blew at 100k miles. I called Subaru and they said I had a high mileage car. I said they don't even call for a tune-up until 100k. They simply said they had a large base of loyal customers.
The last Subaru I had for 100k miles, besides the head gasket, had 6 CV axles go bad, never had a set of tires last over 20k miles (despite 5k rotations), an AC unit that they said had no issues but it never was consistently cold. The fabric on the seats permanently stained when water was spilled on them.
We sold ours right after getting the head gasket fixed. That was the last straw. We bought a Venza and have been happy with that.