Amazingly, the BLS started working, so I drove home without much drama - down some quiet roads. So I depressed the brake pedal and then reached under, found the switch and gave it a few flicks. Well you can't keep driving as the CVT locked me in Park. Lifting the tailgate so I could see the brake light, confirmed this. And yes, after checking the fuses, I decided my brake light switch had failed. So I pulled over and did a quick browse on line. And in Sydney traffic that can be disasterous. Firstly, it's pretty serious because when those three warning come on, your brake light switch has failed and may fail completely like mine did. Hoping it is not something more serious.Hey guys, it's been a while - life moves on - but I thought I'd write about my experience about this.
2008 SUBARU IMPREZZA DASHLIGHTS COMING ON SOFTWARE
This may have just been a one-time software glitch. My cell phone will be on my person the whole time. She's headed out-of-town Saturday to lunch with an old friend. I also told her that if the same lights come back on, find a safe placed to pull over, shut down, and wait 5 minutes before attempting a restart. I have instructed my wife to wait at least 5 seconds after she starts the engine before moving the gearshift out of Park. In the next two hours, my wife went on several short errands with the car. Everything was normal - no unusual warning lights. The "Check Engine" light and all the other lights came back on immediately.
She returned about 5 minutes later with the person who had spoken with us earlier. I stayed with the car while my wife went inside to find someone. Pulled to just outside the service area and turned it off. No strange noises, no loss of power, no loss of functionality on the short drive back. Restarted fine, but the "Check Engine" light and all the other lights came back on immediately. Having read these boards, we switched places and I waited 3-4 minutes before attempting restart. Fortunately, there was a nearly empty parking lot close by, so I told my wife to pull in, park and shut down. No strange noises, or apparent loss of power or other functionality. I had been driving the Ascent exclusively for the past 2 weeks without any problems (my wife was out-of-town visiting relatives).Ībout 30 seconds out, the dash lit up like a Christmas tree - "Check Engine" and all the assorted lights for things that shut down when "Check Engine" activates. My wife took the wheel, started up and we exited the dealership. As an incentive, we got a $25 Sunoco gift card. Essentially intended to give dealer feedback on our experiences the first month of ownership. Went to our dealer for a courtesy 30-day followup. High probability Subaru knows what range of vin#’s are likely to have which issues once they know a part is faulty/ incorrectly made etc. That is also why parts tracking with vin#’s have become really important. The parts suppliers tweaked the make up of the part to boost profits except the design was using a more costly material for a reason etc. This really shows when you get batches of vehicles that were built with slightly different parts and then suffer failures that the same exact vehicle built months earlier has zero issues.
This has been a growing trend with subaru for the last 8 or so years. The designers might have specced a specific type of material to be used in a part but the part supplier might have found they can boost profits by subbing in a lower cost material etc. When it comes down to vehicle design the end game is the quality of the parts your building them with. Their investor day meeting the top brass even discussed that they had added costs being forecasted due to the need to up the quality of various parts in their vehicles. Subaru seems to be struggling with parts quality issues.
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