Have experienced the following a handful of times over the past year:
Upon acceleration from around 55-60 mph on highway when wanting to pass, the engine seems to get 'stuck' in neutral and REVS wildly. I let up on the gas pedal and the engine corrects itself. Very disconcerting and dangerous. For those few seconds, I am not in control of the speed of the vehicle as the engine is not responding.
I am not referring to engine 'hang' wherein there is just a delayed response to acceleration; there is no acceleration at all, just the engine revving; it's as though the engine gets 'caught' in neutral while attempting to shift gears as it's trying to accelerate. If I accelerate slowly, this does not happen, it's when I gun it' so to speak. But, when you really need to pick up speed to pass, that's what you do!!! In 45 years of driving, have never experienced anything like this!
Don't know if this is due to PZEV controls/settings or just some weird problem with the engine, i.e., I have a lemon.
Had hoped the ECM upgrade would correct this problem. It has not. Now am faced with the decision of lodging complaint with dealer and/or Subaru and fighting for a 'fix.' OR, sell the car and cut my losses now.
Has anyone else experienced this or something similar? Does anyone know what is causing this/what is going on when it happens? Is the revving damaging the engine?
Anyone out there with mechanical knowledge and/or experience 'fighting' for fixes with Subaru who has some good advice? I can't always recreate this and am willing to bet they will say they can't recreate the situation at all!!
I had hoped to keep the car long enough for my 13 year old to learn to drive on, but no way would I have an inexperienced driver learn to drive the freeway in this car. Thanks for any advice and help! :icon_sad:
Upon acceleration from around 55-60 mph on highway when wanting to pass, the engine seems to get 'stuck' in neutral and REVS wildly. I let up on the gas pedal and the engine corrects itself. Very disconcerting and dangerous. For those few seconds, I am not in control of the speed of the vehicle as the engine is not responding.
I am not referring to engine 'hang' wherein there is just a delayed response to acceleration; there is no acceleration at all, just the engine revving; it's as though the engine gets 'caught' in neutral while attempting to shift gears as it's trying to accelerate. If I accelerate slowly, this does not happen, it's when I gun it' so to speak. But, when you really need to pick up speed to pass, that's what you do!!! In 45 years of driving, have never experienced anything like this!
Don't know if this is due to PZEV controls/settings or just some weird problem with the engine, i.e., I have a lemon.
Had hoped the ECM upgrade would correct this problem. It has not. Now am faced with the decision of lodging complaint with dealer and/or Subaru and fighting for a 'fix.' OR, sell the car and cut my losses now.
Has anyone else experienced this or something similar? Does anyone know what is causing this/what is going on when it happens? Is the revving damaging the engine?
Anyone out there with mechanical knowledge and/or experience 'fighting' for fixes with Subaru who has some good advice? I can't always recreate this and am willing to bet they will say they can't recreate the situation at all!!
I had hoped to keep the car long enough for my 13 year old to learn to drive on, but no way would I have an inexperienced driver learn to drive the freeway in this car. Thanks for any advice and help! :icon_sad: