Outside shoulder on all tyres showing excess wear compared to the rest of
the tyre which has heaps of tread, is this common on Outback's ?

BMounsey wrote:
Rotate and have allignment checked. I neglected on my old Forester and
only got a little over 20,000 miles.

Frank

I had only 10 K Miles on my 2006 Outback, and, my wife noticed that only the
right front tire was wearing more on the outside. Took it to Subaru and
they confirmed it was alignment, and, also rotated the tires (which they HAD
already done at 7500 miles). There was NO evidence of pulling, hard
steering, or anything, and, I'd not been over any curbs or anything to
disrupt the alignment.

I guess I'll just start getting the alignment done routinely, or
something...
"BMounsey" <bmounsey (AT) bigpond (DOT) com> wrote

My 2000 Forester showed wear at ~ 6,000 miles on both rear. Dealer did
a free alignment and both rear were out of spec. Read months later
that other owners found the same situation and dealers did not cover
it. My next Subaru will include an alignment as part of the purchase
price and I mean a computer printout of before & after. I don't know
if it is caused by a rough boat ride or factory but, any new car
should be delieevered to the owner aligned to factory specs.

They told me that I got ONE free alignment, as part of the warranty, but,
when they did it, for some strange reason, they only gave me the after, not
the before. They said the tech didn't print the before out. Next time,
I'll insist on the before.
"Edward Hayes" <erhayes (AT) worldnet (DOT) att.net> wrote

En/na BMounsey ha escrit:
was wearing more on the outside, subaru cover it in waranty. But the
front tires not wear uniform and I do a second alignement at 20.000Km
(not under waranty), and when I change the tires at 40.000 I do too a
"very fine" alignement and now the front tires wear good. But the rear
tires never was wearing uniform: always one rear tire was wearing more
on the outside, and it isn't possible to do a alignement on the rear
tires....

CONCLUSION: It is a new Subaru, ... "cheap" but very bad cars: oil
burnner (1 litter in 3.000 Km), poor quality components (new brake disk
in only 90.000Km, cluck in only 100.000Km, noise in only 10.000Km, .......

It is my first and last subaru

Bill Bradley wrote:
I think that may be typical - when we had a Ford van, the tires wore
unevenly and I was told if I had complained in the 1st 3000 miles about
the alignment, they would've done it under warranty. Seems to me some
high mileage tires may not show any eneven wear at just 3K - so its
obvious you should always complain about 'pulling' or something soon
after getting the car to see if an alignment will be done at no charge.

Carl


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I think that if tires show alignment problems and there is NO rim/curb
etc contact, then a fee alignment should be covered to 6,000 miles. I
think 3,000 miles is too soon unless there is pulling/drifting issues
that can be verified by the dealer.

joan wrote:
I don't see how the minor problems you listed above
drew you to the conclusion "very bad cars". I'm not arguing either way,
but you seem to have failed to provide sufficient supporting evendence
for your statement.

Do you know by any chance which country/factory Outbacks for the
Spanish market
are coming from? I assume you're in Spain.