Wife needs a car. 82k miles, 2.5l engine. All Subaru’s have their CVT trans. Very clean, and all service, but...
2.5 liter engines are kinda notorious for head gaskets failing around 100,000 mi. or so. Supposed to be fixed in the later models, but I'd take a look. My wife's 2010 impreza was leaking oil from the heads at 80,000.
Son's Outback was great at first and then all kinds of issues reared up, from head gasket to rear lights going out (bad wiring harness) to CV boots etc.
Subaru actually extended the warranty on their CVTs to convince people that an almost guaranteed $8000 dollar repair bill at 100k wasn't a big deal. I recently looked at a few of them but I wasn't willing to roll the dice. We bought my wife a clean Cadillac SRX instead. Decent used vehicles are as scarce as Honda MotoGP wins lately.
2012+ 2.5 have timing chain, the later model the better the head gaskets and will usually start with weeping oil. The passenger inner cv boot is prone to failure over 100k from heat due to sitting above the catalyst. Doing one now on 130k 2010 Impreza (auto, not cvt), clean, grease and new boot, head gasket weeps oil so just monitor. Other than that, regular maintenance and been dead reliable.
Head gaskets may be an issue, as I don't know if they updated them yet at that time for the N/A engines. The fix is to use the turbo MLS gaskets, if you are a DIY kind of person. The CVT trans though, would keep me from buying it. Period.
How about vs a 2011 328i at 95k miles? My wife has had and loved BMW’s, but I’ve always been able to take care of most of their niggling problems. That might not be the case much longer...
