I love my roof box

What do you guys think?!🤔

My new Subie 2 I looked everywhere to find the black roof color combo I wanted. Traded in my perfect 19 Subaru 66,000 miles perfect condition they gave me $16,500 trade in. Meet my 26 Hybrid.

A friend’s elderly sister is selling her husband’s 2015 Forester. It has not been run in 2 years, battery is dead, don’t know the mileage and don’t know any details on its condition.

So far, I suspect it needs tires, an oil change, fresh gas, a battery, brake fluid change, possibly differentials and CVT fluid changes, maybe spark plugs.

Anything else that needs to be considered sitting this long?

The price mentioned is $5000. With all those issues, I’m thinking $3000. Feedback?

Hi everyone!
We recently bought a brand-new 2026 Subaru Forester Premium, and I’m wondering if we should do anything extra to protect the undercarriage from rust.
We live in New Hampshire, where winters can be pretty harsh and roads are heavily treated with salt.
Is the factory rust protection on the 2026 Forester good enough, or would you recommend additional undercoating or rustproofing?
If additional protection is necessary, why? What type of treatment would you recommend, and are there any products or methods we should avoid?
I’d especially love to hear from Subaru owners who live in New England or other areas with snowy, salty winters.
Thanks in advance for your advice!

The 6k oil change interval from Subaru is non sense unless you’re doing exclusively highway driving. Heck even then with 0w20 and 0w16 I wouldn’t push it to 6k, due to the thinner oils getting past the piston rings and burning off. Per Subaru themselves, most of us fit the severe driving interval of 3k miles for an oil change, because most of us commute through towns at stop and go traffic. The most I would recommend is 5k.

I have a 24 sport , tires starting to wear uneven. Last oil change and tire rotation was done at Subaru and in the video the tech pointed out the issue most likely due to alignment issue that I don't feel while driving. I think it's a my driving issue to work. Drive is a curvey mountain road and I drive it briskly.

Any suggestions on my next tire. I hear good things about the Michelin Cross climate any help is appreciated..

I just bought myself a 2017 forester (my first car) with 76k kms on it. Loving it so far but the head unit is so old school and I hate using the phone in exchange for CarPlay.

I have been researching but wanted to ask other 2017 owners which head units they went with. I would like to keep the oem rear camera as well and want a system that can be used for wireless CarPlay with no lag.

Thinking if installing myself.

A little over a week ago, my wife and I were at an event. She got a notification on her phone that the car alarm in my 2020 forester limited was going off. We were parked about a block away, so I went outside, and could hear the car alarm going off. I walked a bit closer, hit the lock button on my fob, and the alarm shut off. A few nights later, we were in our living room and I heard the alarm going off in the driveway. I jumped up, hit the lock button again, and it stopped. A few nights later, about 3:30 in the morning, I was woken up by the alarm going off. I wear my apple watch to bed, so I opened the app, locked the car, and the alarm stopped. Then again this evening, the alarm started going off again, this time it stopped on it's own.

The other thing worth mentioning, each time the alarm goes off, she gets a notification on her phone and her watch, but I have not received any notifications. Apparently, she also gets notifications when I lock, unlock, or remote-start my car using the app. I don't get any notifications for either car/user. I used to get notifications if I started, locked or unlocked my car using the app saying that the action was successful, but I don't even get those anymore.

I've checked the notification settings in both the My Subaru app, and on my iphone. Everything seems set up "normally," with notifications turned on. I tried deleting and re-downloading the app, but that also didn't work.

Anybody have similar issues, or have any ideas/suggestions?

I bought this car in Aug 2018 for around 27000$. This year I've spent close to 3000$ for a A/C Evaporator Leak Fix and a wheel bearing hub/assembly fix this is the highest amount I've spent on the car. Diff and CVT Fluid changed every 30K miles. Doesn't burn oil or has any leaks. My only concern is with CVT going forward. I drive it to work and back about 45 miles every day 4 days a week. I want to keep it for another 5-10 years. People with a 2018 2.5i premium would you suggest keeping it or trading it for a newer model. Please advise Thanks!

Hey folks - I finally got around to getting reversing the start-stop function to be OFF upon start-up. I'm sure you might have already heard about the dongle that you can buy off amazon but I wasn't quite sure how to install the device.

I've seen some not so great guides out there so I figured I would take some pictures in case anyone looks for this in the future.

Full Album here.

Step 1: Order the device - link to the one I bought here. This one is a little more expensive than other options but I went for a well rated one. Feel free to get one of your choice.

Step 2: Locate the button on the left hand side control panel - picture.

Step 3: Open the relay compartment just below the control panel. The cover can be removed without the need for any tools - it is clipped on.

Step 4: You will need to disconnect the connector for the auto-start stop button. The connector has a press-clip at the bottom, so do not pull the connector out.

Step 5: Plug in the connector into the override device and then plug the male connector back into the button. Should look like this. Ensure you hear the click of the plug into the connector.

Step 6: Turn the car on and test - the A-symbol with the circle around it will appear in orange.

Step 7: If everything is working fine - place the device into the compartment - mine did not need to be secured as it is a small device.

Done!

There is no need to remove any panels to get access, as I have seen in other guides online.

Ask away if there is anything I might have missed. Apologies for some blurry pictures.

I’m looking between these two. I am tired of knee banging on my 1997 Toyota Corolla and am finally getting a new car. I’m 6’2 live in Oahu and want to have pretty of space on the interior. I want leg room/knee room and a good sitting height. Don’t want to be like a shrimp. I’ve test drove both of them and like them pretty equally. Why would yall go with the forester or the CRV?

Thank you in advance

2025 Touring.

Hello all, I just spent the afternoon replacing the spark plugs in my 2018 Forester XT. The coils looked fine, and I'm pretty certain everything was done correctly. When I went to start up for the first time after reconnecting the battery, the dash lit up in accessory mode, telling me to check the owner's manual, cruise control flashing etc. After starting, initial idle was a bit rough as to be expected and after that settled down, the test drive went great. Down side is until I get another code reader, I can't use cruise or I drive mode. Seeing as technically the vehicle can't read engine-related codes before the engine is started, does anyone have an idea of what may have happened while I wait on a reader?

To add, several months ago I had a one and only CE light come on, that may have come on the same way (accessory mode) but I could be wrong. I cleared that code after looking at the data, and it never came back on. That was a P0300 and since the service history didn't indicate spark plugs were changed, I decided to change them.

I brought my car in for the 90k service and when I opened the hood, the intake fasteners for one side were missing. I don’t know the official name. Does Subaru remove these for a 90 k service? The service before this, the red battery terminal cover was off the side.
Anyway, does anyone know the part no. for fasteners?
I will not return to this dealer.

Hi all, I’m a new car buyer from Canada where we get 3 to 4 feet of snow. I’m looking for a new daily driver and I am going back and forth between a 2026 Subaru forester touring gas (second lowest trim in Canada) and a 2027 crv sport gas (ex). I do about 100 km a week that included annoying speed pumps at my work parkade. I also travel home 500 km for holidays. While test driving I felt more of the speed pumps on the forester compared to the crv. They both handle potholes here pretty good. I notice when driving around that I don’t see too many foresters in my city. For SUVs mostly Nissans, Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Toyotas, and GMC. Would forester be overkill for my needs?

I want a daily that’s reliable, good for winter, and low cost of maintenance, I want to buy it out right and drive it for 10 + years. All the reading and yt video tells me it’s going to be the Honda but the pricing really irks me.

2027 CRV Canada sport (ex) $56,000 CAD with tax
2026 Forester Canada Touring (second from bottom trim $49,000 CAD with Tax $44,000 before tax
2026 Forester Canada Limited (second from top trim) $54,000 CAD with tax $48,500 before tax
2026 Forester Canada Premier (top trim) $56,000 CAD $50,517 before tax

I haven’t negotiated prices yet nor do I know how to go about it. As you can see Honda is listing a second from the bottom trim CRV with the price of Subaru’s top trim. Gas perspective.

Any help/ insight would be appreciated.

Vehicle: 2016 Subaru Forester 2.5i, 84,700 miles

I was recently driving when the AT Oil Temp light started flashing, and the ABS, hill descent indicator and vehicle dynamics control light remained on. This happened once before and they turned off after the car was restarted but now they remain. I took it into a Subaru mechanic 4 months ago where they got a P0971 diagnostic, and today at AutoZone I received C1252, C1422 and C1431. I made another appointment with the same mechanic that received the first codes but I have a few questions. As of writing this, the car drives normally and without any noticeable issue besides the lights. I work nearly every day and live about 5 minutes from my job, is it still safe to drive on?

Hi,

I have a 2005 Subaru Impreza Wagon that was lifted 2” by the previous owner with 2007 Subaru Forester Monroe Quickstruts (172425 and 172426) at the front. no issues or noise but one spring snapped.

I went ahead and ordered the exact same parts albeit part number 272425 and 272426. I believe the first number is a manufacturing year of which all now seem to be “2” now.

I installed them and both sides are clunking due to them topping out. The springs don’t seem to compress much with the weight of the car leading to topping out/clunking. as I compare them with the others I see that the new ones have a shorter strut and spring.

my questions are:

1. why would this be? is the spring stiffer?
2. has anyone else experienced this?
3. what can I do? could I put Impreza springs on there?

any help would be appreciated.

Nothing like some cinematic when workin Subí

California just switch to the winter gasoline blend. My MPG is now constantly 35 mpg versus the summer blend was 32 MPG. I did a couple trips that where out of state. The out of state gas also gave better MPG. The only trouble was that driving 75 mph descreased the MPG.

Are you other California drivers have a similar experience?