My lovely Honda was just totaled by a tree falling on it...Looking for a Subaru now. I drove a 2006 Forester LL Bean with 149000 miles on it. The car was originally purchased at the same dealership and maintenance done at the same Subaru dealership. It had one owner I was told that it's inevitable that the head gaskets will fail. What do you think?

Asked by GuruNSJ81 Oct 31, 2019 at 04:51 PM about the 2006 Subaru Forester 2.5 X L.L. Bean Edition

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

My lovely Honda was just totaled by a tree falling on it...Looking for a Subaru
now.  I test drove a 2006 Forester LL Bean with 149000 miles on it.  The car
was originally purchased at the same dealership and maintenance done at the
same Subaru dealership.  It had one owner  I was told by a friend that it's
inevitable that the head gaskets will fail.  What do you think?

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I agree that the Head gaskets will fail if they were not swapped out before.

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Head gaskets are a common failure. I might buy it if I did not drive a lot but budget around 2 grand for the head gasket job and make your offer based on this. Offer even less if the dealer does the job as the price may be more than the car is worth.

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