Hi everyone.
We just purchased a new 06 forester 2.5X (the base model) in a 5 speed. Prior to buying the car I rented the exact same car but in an automatic. The rental had ~1000Km (I'm from Canada). I really liked the rental car, but did have one problem. Sometimes the engine took a bit of time to start. I'd turn it over ~10 seconds before it would fire. To me this seemed like a long time for a new car to turn over before starting. I thought the thing was broken and actually called the rental place to find out what happens if I'm off in some far away place and it stops working.
Anyhow, at the end of the week with the rental I went into the Subaru dealership to pick up our new forester (the one that we were purchasing). While I was there, I asked them about the problems I had starting the rental (the rental car left the lot of the same dealership that we bought our car from, but about a week earlier). They told me they hadn't heard of it, and didn't give me a good answer for what they thought could be wrong (it could be one of many different things they told me). Well, our new forester (13Km) did the exact same thing the second time we tried to start it. It now has
400Km and is doing pretty much the exact same thing.It's fairly intermittent though. Sometimes it does it, sometimes not (I know this is going to cause all sorts of grief when I take it into the dealer and ask what's wrong). I've yet to figure out how to get the problem to consistently occur. It doesn't do it on a cold start. but it does do it if I've driven for a bit, shut it off, then on again right away. or, last night I let it sit for probably an hour after driving for 20 min and it did it.
Has anyone else has had this problem or does anyone have any insights into what might be wrong? I'm taking it in and wanted to do some research first.
Thanks.