Please tell me where in the manual is this break-in procedure? I’m looking at mine now and can’t find anything under brakes or braking. Also, these noises started within the 1st weeks, so long before 1000 miles.
On the new rotors and pads which were put on last week, it was the same day I picked up the car from the dealership the noise started.
I don’t ride my brakes, I don’t slam on my brakes, the ABS have never engaged at any stop and I had 1 unavoidable panic stop (some jamoke just about took off my front end doing a lane change). I don’t double foot drive (right for gas, left for brake). The car has never had to stop itself to avoid a collision. I do far more highway driving than city driving so I’m not on and off my brakes. So, since the “master technician” implied in the video they sent that I was the cause for either riding my brakes or slamming on my brakes (I shudder to think of the driving habits I’d have to have to trash 4 rotors and 2 pads in under 5,000 miles) please tell me what I’m doing wrong.
So because I didn’t know about or do this 1,000 mile break-in procedure, I have to have the pads and rotors constantly replaced? If that’s the case, I’ll get rid of it now and get another car. I can’t afford to be traipsing back and forth with the dealerships every couple of thousand miles.
I’m not sure what to do. Do I go to another Subaru dealer and have more Subaru people tell me what I’m doing wrong without asking me anything about the type of driving I do, implying I’m causing the damage because of how I’m driving without ever clapping eyes on me? Do I write this one off as a piece of junk and trade it in for a new make and model? Do I say to Subaru…screw you and go to the only mechanic who has looked me in the face and said “Something’s not right. Don’t worry, we’ll get it fixed and you’ll be loving your car again.” This mechanic looked at the car and immediately saw all the problems with the front rotors the first technician at Bertera didn’t see. It was obvious enough for him to point them out to me and for me to see what he was pointing to in a parking lot in the sunlight.
The brakes on my car were never what I expected for a vehicle of that size, towing capacity, torque and horsepower. At this juncture, I should turn off the front collision as I doubt it would be able to function correctly, I will not plan on towing as if it has the problems with downhill stopping with this set of pads and rotors I don’t dare put a load behind it.
This is my 4th Subaru and if I didn’t need to pass along my 2012 Outback I’d still be driving that car…happily. And I was happy to have this car. I loved driving this car. This was the Subaru I wanted to put a minimum of 250,000 miles on as I had to pass on my 2012 just shy of 100,000 miles.
