2005 Subaru Outback ll Bean from North America - Comments

Gasoline consumption is shamefully enormous and Subaru/Dealer refuses to fix it 8.5 mpg cold in city 14 on road.

Seat heaters twice repaired have never worked.

Windshield broken when tire changed Subaru/dealer refuses to repair it.

Transmission shifts hard and makes grinding noise.

Skylight leaks severly and rear deck leaks. Car has

mold growing inside. water intrusion is outrageous.

Large plastic piece on rear deck detached on I94 in wisconsin and blew away. Dealer/Subaru refuses to repair it.

Doors fit so badly that road noise is intolerable in this $30,000 rolling junk heep.

The all wheel drive grinds and binds when you make right turns and is so noisy as to make lengthy drives intolerable.

The handling is poor and tire wear is outrageous tires wear unevenly and must be replaced frequently.

Oil leaks in the engine and we cannot leave it in the garage because it leaks fluids on the floor.

This car cannot be insured. no company will insure it because of the broken glass (due to flexing of the body and the extremely poor quality glass used by Subaru)

I purchased this car new and I expected the warranty to be honored. Subaru will not answer letters nor do they care if someone is unhappy with the cars they produce.

The car I purchased, Top of the line LL Bean, is not a commercially acceptable vehicle and is unsafe to drive and is un-insurable at the present time. No Company Will Insure MY Car!!!

The dealer and Subaru have refused to honor the warranty. They are extremely skilled at avoiding situations that will expose them to legal recourse. they will not answer letters nor will the dealer generate paper work. They have,through inaction, to repair or honor the warranty. The subaru warranty is as big a sham as the quality claims of the advertising.

The subaru car I purchased is a shameful and disgraceful piece of junk. no sane person seeing this car could possibly find any exceuse for Subaru of America's conduct regarding this sham of a car.

I regret ever having purchased a new Subaru L L Bean

outback.

Reading the above review, I am so suspicious that it was written by some employee of the competition, rather than an actual owner of a Subaru. I have to ask: if the car is so terrible, then why did you continue to keep it, at 30,000 miles? If you search the internet, you'll see the VAST majority of Subaru owners are happy with their purchase. My experience with a 2008 Outback has been positive: it has been an absolutely wonderful car: very comfortable, respectable mileage (23.7 average), handles great, is smooth and quiet (no strange noises), and is built solid... nothing "tinny" or cheap about it. The 2.5 engine, although no "hotrod", is entirely adequate, giving better acceleration than our 2002 Chevy S10, also a 4cyl. No regrets.

If this individual had this many problems, which is possible, then this is way outside the norm. This person needs to get a lawyer.

After reading this comments about a Subaru Outback and based on personal experience of owning 5 Subaru. Three of them Outbacks, I have to say that I do not believe a single word of if. That no insurance company will insure it? Come on!

Wow, I am not sure about the first comment. I owned a 2000 outback limited for three years and loved it, although the head gaskets went on it which is unbelievably common in subarus and something subaru needs to fix in a big way. Other than that I loved the car. It is the perfect car for a small family man who doesn't want to buy an ugly gas guzzling van or truck, but still wants higher clearance and all wheel drive. In my canadian winters it's a must. I now own a 2005 outback limited and it is far superior to the 2000. Especially the interior styling. The first guy in here just got an incredibly unlucky anomaly and needs to get a lawyer.

This review is bogus. No car is that bad. Not even a Ford from the 1970's (but they did come close). I drive a 2005 Outback XT and love it. Zero problems. The car is solid, well built and excellent quality materials.

Think about it, if someone had a car that bad, they would easily qualify under the lemon law and get full refund.

This review doesn't appear to be credible. I've put more than 40k miles on my 2005 Outback and haven't had any service problems. It's a solid built car and my Subaru dealership has been very friendly to me when I take it in for regularly scheduled service.

My 2006 Outback 3000cc is great, but service costs are high and my only complaint is wind noise above 48mph which is very annoying.

I just traded off our 05 Outback. Gas mileage was 21-27, mostly right at the 24 of mixed driving in the 4 seasons of Dakota. Only once was it 30 with tail wind, no air conditioner running. Had 38k miles on when traded. Always felt at ease while driving on ice or snow slush. Seats were to firm for long trips and rode a bit stiff, but heh! it's AWD. Head room for getting in and out is a little low for someone that is tall or not flexable. Had warranty work done. Rear wheel bearing, was not out, but howling, had a rear constant velocity drive axle changed, mechanics claimed that was rare.I'd buy another subaru. My daughter and I love the Baja she owns. Traded for an AWD Mercury Montego.We'll see how that goes.

There is no way this person got 8mpg, that's even worse than like a Hummer?! I have a Baja and I get 29 hwy in it surprisingly, for it has well over 100k miles.

Interesting review!

Very surprising if it is at all credible. I think he should have sold the car if it was getting such terrible gas mileage.

We have 2 roo's - a 2000 Outback with 125,000 miles - other than head gaskets which SOA has replaced twice (even at 8 years old & over 100K miles - well out of warranty - Subaru looked after the issue!). Love the car. It has the h4 engine and get well over 25mg mix driving.

Also have a 2006 Outback 3.0 h6 engine, now at 66K miles. No issues with the car yet, really enjoy the extra power from the engine... and still get over 22mpg mix driving. And oh yes - no problems with breaking windows???

We live in NewEngland, and have a very rough driveway to negotiate which most cars can't drive on even in the summer, never mind the winter when we have 2 feet of snow! No problem with body flex... never a broken window (Even after the 2000 has hit side on by a deer!)... and no problem getting Insurance either.