I have to admit that I know very little about cars, but would like someone to help me with this one.
I have a 2002 Outback 3.0H6 that I bought 8 months ago, and the transmission died and had to stripped and be fixed. The service report says that the transmission oil was burnt (I stopped as soon as the "at oil temp" light came on) and it had just had it's 100km service 2 days previously. The garage sent the transmission away and fixed it and also fitted an inline oil filer (?filter spelt wrong) and an external oil cooler.
It was an ex-company car done 84km and regularly serviced by Subaru dealer when I got it. I'm a mother so all my driving is boring domestic stuff. I live in a semi rural area, so it is a mix of town and country and a mix of shorter trips(2km and 12km) with a few 80km+ trips thrown in, almost never in traffic, and the car has been serviced every
10,000km.- Could someone explain to me why they would have added the extra cooler and filer (or filter) into the car.
- I would have thought that you could expect a transmission to last longer than it did (just under 4 years/100km) Am I correct in my thinking?
- Any ideas why it would break - can you wreck a transmission with normal driving? Could something have gone awray at the service?
Hope you can help!