Man, we had a Subaru outback for a while. Still miss the space, but the interior flooded every time it rained.
Turns out, the roof doesn’t actually have a place to shed water externally - it drains through the car before going out the bottom. Apparently part of regular maintenance involves cleaning out that channel… and where we live has enough tree debris that it always clogged up early, and backed up into the passenger compartment.
Now, I don’t know a lot about car design… but draining the roof through the body of the car, in such a way that you have to have a service tech see to it to keep it weatherproof? Makes me wonder what else might be waiting to go wrong.
I want to say 2014-2016? It was bizarre, but the dealership didn’t seem to have any notion that it was a real problem. Just kept hearing back “Oh yeah, sounds like it needs blown out again” whenever it happened.
And it was never a problem right after it was serviced, just in the month or two before it was due to be serviced again. It seemed like there was a SOP that could address it, it just required frequent maintenance to be able to handle rain falling on the roof.
That’s so weird. I know two people with that model year who don’t have that issue. Your comment spurred me to ask around. Very weird, sorry you had to deal with that.
Yeah, like I said, it sounds like normal maintenance is enough to keep up with the “typical” use case. We live in an area with a lot of trees, and had nowhere to park it where debris didn’t clog it fast, apparently. They did recommend we park it in the garage at one point, but… the car was longer than our garage! Seemed silly to renovate our house to expand our garage when the problem was that the car wasn’t built to shed dirty rainwater safely, so we sold it and got a shorter car instead.
Uhhh… Subaru?
Man, we had a Subaru outback for a while. Still miss the space, but the interior flooded every time it rained.
Turns out, the roof doesn’t actually have a place to shed water externally - it drains through the car before going out the bottom. Apparently part of regular maintenance involves cleaning out that channel… and where we live has enough tree debris that it always clogged up early, and backed up into the passenger compartment.
Now, I don’t know a lot about car design… but draining the roof through the body of the car, in such a way that you have to have a service tech see to it to keep it weatherproof? Makes me wonder what else might be waiting to go wrong.
What model year was that? Never heard of such a thing. I suspect you had a defective car.
I want to say 2014-2016? It was bizarre, but the dealership didn’t seem to have any notion that it was a real problem. Just kept hearing back “Oh yeah, sounds like it needs blown out again” whenever it happened.
And it was never a problem right after it was serviced, just in the month or two before it was due to be serviced again. It seemed like there was a SOP that could address it, it just required frequent maintenance to be able to handle rain falling on the roof.
That’s so weird. I know two people with that model year who don’t have that issue. Your comment spurred me to ask around. Very weird, sorry you had to deal with that.
Yeah, like I said, it sounds like normal maintenance is enough to keep up with the “typical” use case. We live in an area with a lot of trees, and had nowhere to park it where debris didn’t clog it fast, apparently. They did recommend we park it in the garage at one point, but… the car was longer than our garage! Seemed silly to renovate our house to expand our garage when the problem was that the car wasn’t built to shed dirty rainwater safely, so we sold it and got a shorter car instead.
I don’t know anything about them.