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Originally Posted by cody
I've heard stories of cat material and even the EGT probe itself getting sucked right into the turbo. :eek
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I think you jinxed me sir. Well here it is. I got to Subaru and found a lot of things out about my car after they looked at it. Apparently I had a Cat failure which broke up the honeycomb in the cat and sheared off the tip of the EGT probe which caused the first CEL that went away and shoved that into the turbo along with broken Cat parts. Once getting through the turbo and destroying the compressor wheel, etc., it all backed up in the cat in the DP which was adding to my already fucked idle and boost/driving problems also. It also killed the Cat in the DP and some o2 sensors along the way in its travels I guess. I also have some bad gaskets in the exhaust which they claim was by this I guess. I have only had the car for 5000 miles and roughly 6 months. I was told by the local Porsche/Volvo dealer where I bought it that there was one other owner and he was 58 years old. They also told me that the guy lived here and traveled to California often so most of the miles were freeway miles. Turns out that the car I bought is on Subaru of America as an Abused car according to the service manager at Lithia Subaru. It was in and out of the service department A LOT in it's life, and the UP and turbo have been replaced already at roughly 19,000 miles. The car now has 46,000 miles. Apparently it was driven by a younger kid who beat the shit out of it and mostly drove it on the street from what he said. So the service manager was hoping that since that was replaced by the dealership and it maintains a warranty and since the work and parts came from Subaru and same cat in the UP caused the problem that it renewed the warranty on the Cat for 7 years/70,000 miles when it was installed. Since it is the stem of the problem of this $3000 bill just for parts (No Labor) I got at Subaru today, They are going to tear down my car and try to prove the cat was the culprit for sure but for a price of $450 in labor. Even though there is no for sure thing that Subaru will help me out and take care of this and it seemed like a gamble, it seemed like a decent chance they might cover it still and help buy and install all of the broken parts. So I will give that a try and see what happens. Worst case I took it like a big boy to try and save some money and I'll have to install everything from the header back with new/used parts after this trial without a shop with friends. I already have a stock UP and DP and various things accounted for from my friend that has an 07 WRX that he said I could have for free sitting in his garage collecting dust. So basically I need a back up plan if Subaru falls through for your used parts because it is my daily driver and in order to fix it I have to make it to work to make the money to pay for it. They should have an answer for me hopefully by tomorrow or by Monday at the latest. So for the back up plan, here is a list of things I need to possibly PURCHASE from every one's garage if it is possible and you guys have it for my 05 WRX.
Stock turbo
EGT Probe
(2) o2 sensors
All exhaust gaskets (I will probably buy these brand new though)
I have cash in my safe for this stuff and if anyone is interested PLEASE let me know if these parts are even out there if I do need to buy them. I'll do anything but be gay for these parts. You guys have been a great help to me. Thank you very much!