Rear wheel support with attachment

It seems that Subaru has some pretty serious quality control issues, as my ownership of the 2023 Ascent Touring has generally been a nightmare. I first went to the dealership to pick up the car, only to find that the factory had not installed a number of accessories that were on the order sheet, some I consider essential to my use and protecting my largest investment ever in a vehicle. . After a 5 month wait my dealer finally had all the missing accessories in stock and was able to install them (over 2 hours drive from my house each way and they had to have the vehicle over a day ). Then they tried to get me to take the vehicle in with exposed wires in the auto dimming mirror installation and said it was normal. Finally got them to fix and 5 months later I finally received the vehicle I ordered. I have never felt so good about leaving a dealer that I plan on never going back to after such a miserable experience working with them.

Well now that my wedding story is out of the way, the real reason for this post. I’m at 5 months of ownership and only 3k miles, and the glue on the rear wheel trim is already failing.

Just pathetic for a $50k car. This is my 4th Subaru, and my 2011 Outback has 180k miles on it and I’ve been generally happy with it over the past 12 years of ownership, but I’m really wondering how well it will hold up this Ascension for a long time. It looks like a lot of cut corners and cheap materials. A small but noticeable thing for me was the plastic interior panels in the cargo area/third row. Weak, frail and seems to scratch and scratch just by looking at it. Also finding the MPG to be really bad, averaging just 18 MPG over the first 3k miles, barely an improvement over the Tribeca it replaced. I bought this car to be the family/adventure platform for raising my two boys, really hoping it wouldn’t let me down. At this point it’s hard not to feel like I’ve made a huge mistake, despite loving the fit/features/ride of the vehicle.