I do not have any such information. I wrote it that way, however, because it's my belief that it's almost a certainty that any "first" production model will have design weaknesses that do not become apparent until the product is in actual use. The severity of these problems vary, might be annoyances or might be as bad as the "rod bender" 3.5l diesel engines that Mercedes Benz built in the early 1990s (this from a manufacturer with no small amount of experience in building diesel engines).
"Scott Daniel - Shazam " <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> writes: > I have this 'flaw' ...( among many ! ) ..I take written things very > literally. > By writing 'mistakes they made' , as in past tense, do you have real > information that Subaru's first generation TD engine has problems ? > I would expect subaru to have them pretty dialed in by production time. I > would think the head gasket area would be touchy, or need extra engineering > to make it very solid there. > Scott |
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