Hey, i think theres about 5-6 of us on this board within 20 minutes of each other. I figured I'd start a roll call thread just to see how many of us there are.
Name, Age
Location
Car info
I'll start it off:
Jason, 17
I'm located near the intersection of wilmington pike and whipp. You'll usually see me driving on 48.
04 WRB WRX, a few mods right now. Hopefully Cobb Stage 2 by next year.
Yeah... People like me whined until they got it out into production. Trying to make the customer happy ended up making the customer without a car. They have been very up front in what is going on, and what the status of things are. Big plus! My worry now is a bunch of people taking their car to the subi dealership with a busted ECU. This is not going to make Subaru happy. I foresee a bunch of fraud warrantee claims...... Not good for us. Especially when you make a ligament claim. They are going to be a lot more suspicious....
In development, there are three major points: 1. price, 2. reliability, 3. schedule. Cobb has done a really good job for us WRX guys, and was trying to apply the same knowledge to the XT and STi. They crunched price and schedule, but seem to have gotten bitten by the reliability (not enough testing so they could get it out quickly). Hey, it happens, even to multi-million dollar defense programs.
I know that doesn't help the folks with a Forrester-shaped paper weight in their garage.
My thoughts are this - XT owners will most likely need new ECUs. I'm guessing that only the 1st gen XT ECU's are at fault here, cause several XT owners have had no problems at all.
I know that many ECU's are already in Cobb's hands being worked upon, but the downtime that they are all experiencing now can't be good for their legal team. I'm sure we will get some lawsuits out of this if Subaru clamps their hand down on warranties and ECU returns when this becomes a big issue.
XT owners need to chill out and let Cobb fix them up. It's not a Subaru issue, and certainly Cobb's fix will be much less expensive.
On the dealer aspect, what can they actually do to fix things? Can they actually reflash the ECU with the stock programming? Seems to me it'd be too tricky especially with at least 2 gens of STI and XT ECUs. Doesn't sound to me like anyone but Cobb will have a doable fix for this one. Having your XT towed to the dealer is a bad idea as well, since they can't do anything either. Your car just now sits in THEIR lot as another paperweight. One that reminds them of how many owners actually mod their cars out and void their warranties.
This isn't good for the Subaru modding market for sure.
PS - My Suicide Prevention Training was here in the Hospital.
Good points. I read a few people taking them to the dealership.
It's my understanding that most dealerships don't have the capibility to reflash. Maybe there was an update, but last I saw only 1 XT owner got his to init.
My wife would kill me if that happened to her XT
Yet again... as the saying goes. You play you pay.
David,
>
> Very odd. Let me just go ahead and work on getting
> you a new AccessPORT. It will likely ship tomorrow
> and I'll next day air it to you so you have it by
> Friday. I'll also include a return UPS sticker you
> can use to send back the defective AccessPORT.
>
> I'm fearful that we may have some faulty memory
> banks in there that somehow passed the sanity checks
> during our in-house initialization but isn't
> functioning properly. This will also be a bit
> faster considering John's current work load dealing
> with some other issues.
>
> Let me know the address most convenient for you to
> have the AccessPORT shipped to and we'll get you
> taken care of ASAP.
>
> Sorry for the troubles,
> Trey Cobb.
He just posted on the last page or so that when he steps on it in 5th, the boost creeps up, and he's been hitting the fuel cut-off. Hopefully Cobb will release a revision to Stage 1 soon.
I'll be at KilKare if it's not raining. I'll probably be in my new pimp '91 Accord. I'm thinkin' about getting some of those sweet hubcap spinnaz for it.
I'll donate more of my hamstring ligament for the cause!! They took out like 4 inches (10 CM) already, so I'm not sure how much more I can give. I asked my surgeon what they do for ACL's when people bust them again, and he said they'd get cadaver ligaments....
Anyone up for this? BoostedSUBARU wants to meet up at 9:00 pm near the Dayton Mall. I know some of you are running to Kilcare tonight, so I told him he might as well show up Saturday at noon when we meet at Far Hills Church.
oh and heres a short list of mods to my car if anybody wondered...
gruppe-s v2 header, helix uppipe, VF-22 turbo, 3" full exhaust, energy suspension full bushing kit, Leda fully adjustable coilovers, 18" Speedline GT-1 gunmetal wheels,
Bridgestone Potenza S-03 pole position tires, STI V6 Ra gearset, Exedy stage 4 Clutch and lightweight flywheel, Kartboy short throw shifter, FMIC, TurboXS RFL BOV, TurboXS UTEC, HKS EVC-IV boost controller, Kenwood MP3 player, infiniti 6002i reference speakers(4), STI front & rear strut tower bars,STi motor and tranny mounts, cusco lower chassis brace, ZEX 75-shot nitrous, APR C.F. canards, Scoobysport rear spoiler..
I guess he has installed the fmic since the last meet a few weeks ago. At that point he was still running the stock top mount. That's a good amount of mods if tuned correctly, but my money is still on Ackbar's turbo mustang if he gets it running right.
p.s. I'll be in Huber on Saturday getting my windows tinted, so I can't meet up at noon.
I had some fellow forum folk estimate his WHP with the nitrous shot and all those mods, they were saying 360-385 WHP with nitrous and running low 12's or 11.8-11.9's at the 1/4 mile.
I had some fellow forum folk estimate his WHP with the nitrous shot and all those mods, they were saying 360-385 WHP with nitrous and running low 12's or 11.8-11.9's at the 1/4 mile.