does that mean i could help lest say my 5eat to work better by changing oil to fully synthetic as i think it was never changed in car though im not sure about that but probably.
but then on those newer cars there is programing how ECU commands 5eat to work and how it works compare to given comands . and why car can be in said limp mode though it can give no errors but its feels laggy not so much forward as backwards. But whos fault is it ? bad fuel system job from that ECU gives wrong commands to 5eat or its torque converter not sure how that works and from what input it gives what output there.
so manual would never be lagy or doing some weird stuff there it would just work or burn clutch but it would work until it can.
it seems simple but what really is problem here. i start car , i rev it , it revs fine now laging in reving no problems works almost fine on idle too, but then i put in reverse and maybe i have little obstacle in rear but i need to drive over it , and i drive to obstacle slowly and it just stops and doesnt move anymore. it doesnt reacts to my pedal comands its just stalls there on low revs and thats all... what causes that ? and why if i have no errors at that moment.
Hmmm. If the ATF hasn't been changed yet, doing a drain-and-fill or two may help. A full flush may give you problems. What is the colour of your ATF, at the moment?
Subaru of NZ recommends drain-and-fills every 30,000km with
Motul ATF-1A or the similar Fuchs for 4EATs and 5EATs 3rd revision onwards, meaning after around 2003. My previous BP5 still has the service history from Japan and the owner had his ATF serviced at around 30,000km. This is why NZDM cars usually sell higher than JDM imports.
With CVTs it's 30,000km, as well, but with the genuine CVTF.
Please note that Kiwis are generally rough on their cars. JDM imports here are cheap, so there is that mentality that they can always replace their cars with a new import, so they drive them as hard as they can. It is actually better to buy a JDM import directly from Japan vs a JDM import from somebody who has already used the car here, unless of course, the person knows about Subarus because he/she would follow Subaru NZ's recommendations.
Has this been conclusively documented,
@ABFoz? I thought only the Oz (and perhaps the NZ) market SKs had the extra CVT coolers, and were left out for the North American market. Is this implemented via a smaller radiator in front or behind the main radiator? I have a 2020 SK in the US, I can take a look and report back. Don't remember any mention of it in the manuals that came with the car (I will admit, I haven't read the reams of documents thoroughly).
I think only the higher trim Ascent (USDM market three-row SUV) and the Outback XT with the FA2.4 engine mated to high-torque CVTs had these coolers by default in the US market.
I don't have details of that at the moment, I have just been told by a mate I used to work with from Texas that he sees an extra cooler vs his 2017.
So we've got the following coolers in our NZDM and JDM CVT models. Please note that
many JDM EZ36 models come with two of these. I was told that it is an extra one is an option in the Southern US but I can't confirm that.
This one is sometimes located in the front-right fender or sometimes NACA ducted at the front diffuser below the radiator. I don't know how effective this is but earlier CVT USDM models do not have this. Some users say that the ducting makes this really effective, if it's located below the radiator.
This passive cooler. There is supposed to be an NACA duct from the diffuser directing air to this.
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