Subaru Automobiles

[lman]

There's a difference in lane keeping and lane assist. Our new car has both. Lane keeping will center the vehicle in the lane while on cruise control and your hand is on the steering wheel. If it detects that your hand is not nudging the wheel, alerts will go off.
Lane assist will alert you if you are leaving your lane without your turn signal on.
You can turn off the lane assist alert, however if you're driving properly you never know it's there. I'm not sure about lane keeping.
It didn't sound like Moss' car has the lane keeping feature.

 

[MossRoad]

I have a hearty dislike for the adaptive cruise control. I figure a good driver doesn't need that crutch. I do not like the extra wear on the brakes.

Another feature I dislike on the Subaru is the AWD. Subaru requires all tires to be within a certain tolerance in diameter. That means that if you ruin one tire, all have to be replaced (or the new one has to be trimmed). Not so with Toyota.

Not sure why you think adaptive cruise control wears the brakes. I've only seen it use the throttle. It lets up or gives it more gas.

If you ruin 1 tire, and the new one is within 3/32" (almost a quarter inch) of the others, you don't have to replace all 4. That's pretty much standard for 2wd cars as well. You should change tires in pairs on a 2wd for the same reason. If they're within 3/32" no need to do both.

It's a known caveat of AWD.

 

[MossRoad]

You left out the best part: It was made in Indiana! (I bought a 2013 Outback instead of an Audi for that reason)

Your description of all those safety features reminded me of a State Trooper's comment. He mostly drove a regular cruiser and other drivers usually yield or get out of his way. But when he drove an unmarked car, he had more close calls because he forgot that he looked like just another car. Hope you don't get dependent on those new features and forget when you hop in your truck!

Of course it was! 5 million and counting!

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[MossRoad]

Not sure why you think adaptive cruise control wears the brakes. I've only seen it use the throttle. It lets up or gives it more gas.

If you ruin 1 tire, and the new one is within 3/32" (almost a quarter inch) of the others, you don't have to replace all 4. That's pretty much standard for 2wd cars as well. You should change tires in pairs on a 2wd for the same reason. If they're within 3/32" no need to do both.

It's a known caveat of AWD.

Thinking back on this tire diameter issue, my kid lost a tire on her Subaru a couple years ago. She took it to the Subaru dealer. They could not get the same type of tire that were on the car when they sold it to her. They told her to order one through Tire Rack, have it delivered, and they'd put it on. They told her all of the tire's were within the tread depth requirements.

Just last week, she had a flat (again. Pittsburgh is crazy for flats). She took it in and they patched the tire. And they said if the patch doesn't hold, she'll need a new tire. I will question her about the depth of the other 3.

 

[MossRoad]

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Curiously Moss, can you turn the lane keeping feature off?

Yep. Lots of on/off choices on this thing.

 

[MossRoad]

There's a difference in lane keeping and lane assist. Our new car has both. Lane keeping will center the vehicle in the lane while on cruise control and your hand is on the steering wheel. If it detects that your hand is not nudging the wheel, alerts will go off.
Lane assist will alert you if you are leaving your lane without your turn signal on.
You can turn off the lane assist alert, however if you're driving properly you never know it's there. I'm not sure about lane keeping.
It didn't sound like Moss' car has the lane keeping feature.

It has lane centering and lane departure warning.

 

[cqaigy2]

2014 Crosstrek.

Doesn't have anything, even the bluetooth is for sht. You do have to turn off a bunch of things to get squirrely in the snow. Regular cruise control, wish it had the adaptive.

My SIL's has a 2016 Forrester. Her husband was surprised how primitive my 2014 was, he actually had to lift the hatch by hand! The cvt in the 2014 has a shifting solenoid they cheaped out on and used a bushing instead of actual bearings that 2015 onward have. No eyesight etc. Probably the best vehicle i've owned and the only new one.

It's not a 4 wheel drive so off roading for me anyway, doesn't happen much and not like i used to off road with a real 4 wheel drive.

 

[NoTrespassing]

2014 Crosstrek.

Doesn't have anything, even the bluetooth is for sht. You do have to turn off a bunch of things to get squirrely in the snow. Regular cruise control, wish it had the adaptive.

My SIL's has a 2016 Forrester. Her husband was surprised how primitive my 2014 was, he actually had to lift the hatch by hand! The cvt in the 2014 has a shifting solenoid they cheaped out on and used a bushing instead of actual bearings that 2015 onward have. No eyesight etc. Probably the best vehicle i've owned and the only new one.

It's not a 4 wheel drive so off roading for me anyway, doesn't happen much and not like i used to off road with a real 4 wheel drive.

Does the CVT have artificial shift points like I mentioned previously?

 

[cqaigy2]

Does the CVT have artificial shift points like I mentioned previously?

I believe the artificial shifting points were added to CVTs at first because people were freaked out they weren't feeling the shifting on the CVT. I never noticed any artificial shifting on my Crosstrek, but it did on another vehicle we tried out, not a Subaru. I wondered about that on a CVT so went down some rabbit holes on the Internet and talked to a few people and consensus was the freak out effect. I did take my 2014 in and they updated the shifting computer firmware i notice right away when i picked it up. In my opinion, better shifting, a bit slower on take off from stop. They were known to be a bit "high geared" on take off, so you had to watch the car in front of you so you didn't climb up their tailpipe. Better passing shifting as the older version might have a tendency to leave you in the lurch if you needed to pick up speed quickly and you learned to manually downshift on the paddles, the new firmware took care of that. Very smooth shifting more akin to a boat, where you hit the gas and it just goes faster and faster.

 

[Hay Dude]

Ddin’t Nissan try CVT transmissions and they were a failure?