Automatic Transmission Control Module Problems of Subaru Forester

On 8/12/15, I had stopped at a stoplight. When the light changed and I attempted to move forward with traffic, the eyesight disabled warning came on and my car completely stalled and refused to move. The car prompted me to put it into park, I attempted this and it did not resolve the issue. After this, the car prompted to press the start/stop button. This also did not work. I eventually had to completely turn off the car while in an active lane of traffic and turn it back on. This resolved the issue. In less than 24 hours, I was at the dealership. They have been unable to determine what caused the vehicle to effectively shut off while idling. They are performing a tcm update and do not appear to believe the issue is a safety issue, however again the vehicle stalled in an active lane of traffic during rush hour. It felt like when the car goes into the gas saving mode while idling but this had not happened. It just stopped. This was an extremely unsafe situation to be in a car that can not move or have to try and get it into neutral and get it out of traffic on a busy road, moments after being on the highway. The dealership checked the battery twice and confirmed that it was functioning and I have the video walk through where the confirm the car is in good condition and they could not replicate the issue.

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My wife and leased two new 2006 Subaru Foresters in may 2006. Since we obtained the vehicles both exhibited a hesitation when attempting to accelerate. We brought the vehicles to the dealership three times to have the problem corrected, but they were unable to do so. I then contacted Subaru customer service to report the problem. I did not get any satisfaction. I then sent two letters to the president of Subaru. Customer service contacted me again and said that my problem was characteristic of this vehicle, and that there is nothing wrong with them since tests showed everything operating according to specification. I finally got the factory representative to examine both of my vehicles and he stated the same as customer service. Needless to say I find this unacceptable. Subaru says that they cannot correct this problem and they will not replace the vehicles. They offered me $1,500 per vehicle if I were to trade them in for new Subarus. I find this unacceptable since this amont would not cover the expenses of breaking the existing leases and leasing two new vehicles. I feel that this hesitation proble is a safety hazard since you have to concern yourrself with the hesitation when accelerating in traffic.

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