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Originally Posted by doubleurx
Well my '03 wrx tranny sucked and was toast at 18,000 miles. Bent shaft, mis alignment of gears, blown synchros and destroyed rear diff. Granted I believe something was amiss (maybe my shifting?); and certainly I pushed the power but not nearly to the limit. At any rate, compared to all other manual transmissions I have had the wrx tranny was 2nd to last in my book and that is only because I owned a 1990 Eagle Talon TSI!
Looking back, I liked my 83 GTI, '87 GLI, 87 5000S, 89 Mazda mx-6GT and my current cars transmissions much more than my '03 wrx's. From the start it fellt weak. Perhaps it was just a fluke. To be honest it was the only wrx I ever drove. The STI is by far my favorite second to the C4. The C4 has huge throws but is so smooth. Hell you can down shift into first at 30 mph.
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I hear that a lot. My personal belief is that Subaru has a QC (quality control) issue. I think the cars are designed very well, but in production, tolerances are too great (or other consistency issues) and QC suffers. Some WRX’s have inferior components and fail while most seem very well made (like mine, *knock on wood*).
Ed of Equilibrium Tuning supported my theory when he mentioned that some WRX’s just won’t make as much power as others. This is comparing several stock WRX's to eachother or equally modded ones.
Some people do modify their WRX to 300WHP and drive the piss out of it with no issues. Others lightly mod the car and drive it with love and compassion in their wrists and they still develop the notorious grinding gears which then usually develops into full failure at some point.
It wouldn’t be such a big issue, but as I understand it, SOA commonly compares the blown tranny to a picture of an abused transmission, inspects the tires, and says, “sorry, you abused it.” Of course this is another situation where we can do nothing but speculate if SOA is justified or not. It’s like the legal system; some people are unfairly punished while others get away with murder.
I personally would never make a claim after modding the engine or abusing the transmission, but the horror stories did convince me to wait to the 30K mile mark before I added power. I’m pretty confident my transmission is one of the good ones at this point, but I still won’t launch.