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Re:Renault Shares Drop on Apparent Fraud Probe into Emissions by ju-st on Thursday January 14, 2016 @09:27AM (#10901528)
> And despite hundred of pages of online forum discussion about this particular problem.

The problem hasn't existed yet when you bought the car?

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Re:Renault Shares Drop on Apparent Fraud Probe into Emissions by exhilaration on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:07AM (#10901795)
If you don't know what search terms to put into Google, you'll never know it's a common problem until after it happens to you.

For example, we didn't know that, until a few years ago, Subarus were prone to cracked head gaskets. We only learned that after it happened to us and the mechanic told us it was very common. Armed with new search terms, Google confirmed what the mechanic said.

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Re:Renault Shares Drop on Apparent Fraud Probe into Emissions by SixSigma on Thursday January 14, 2016 @11:46AM (#10902502)
According to warranty Direct's customer base of 50,000k+ policies

42% of Forester's are returned for engine problems [1]

28% of Subaru Legacy's too [2]

For both models it is the most frequent category of failure

The legacy is still no.86 in the reliability stakes though [3]

[1] http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/236

[2] http://www.reliabilityindex.com/reliability/search/238

[3] http://www.reliabilityindex.com/top-100

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