Transmission Solenoid Problems of Subaru Outback

When turning the vehicle off, the key is intermittently not able to be removed from the ignition. Rear hatch will also not open when this occurs, as the shift select solenoid doesn't recognize that the transmission is shifted into park.

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Intermittent dash lights flashing on my Subaru 2012 Outback, prompted me to take the car in for diagnosis. Subaru is notorious for dash lights flashing when there might be an issue. Brought car in but they could not find issue. Flashing lights reset, but came back on. When lights flash, many other car functions cease, such as cruise control, manual gear function goes inop, etc. Plus flashing lights disguise other issues that may be going on as well (such as brakes), plus very distracting in itself. Historically, I am tracking Subaru has had many issues with this and no rhyme or reason of what could cause these. Anyhow, Subaru finally said I have a power train issue, bad solenoid that is causing irregular shifting or no shifting to a higher gear. It causes a vibration in the car and concerned that the whole transmission will go out. There was a recall that extended from 60k miles to 100k just recently, but Subaru said my car just missed the warrant work/recall by 14k miles which I think is quite concerning since it has been identified as an issue (recall). Does the issue stop at 100k? I attached the response from Subaru.

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Tl the contact owns a 2013 Subaru Outback. The contact stated that while driving 55 mph, the brake pedal was depressed and the vehicle stalled without warning. The contact also mentioned that on a several other occasions, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle resumed normal operation after the vehicle was turned off and restarted. The vehicle was taken to the local dealer autonation Subaru spokane valley located at 10000 e. Sprague Ave, spokane valley, wa 99206 where it was diagnosed with needing the transmission valve body and solenoid to be replaced. The manufacturer was contacted however, no assistance was offered. The vehicle had not been repaired as of yet. The failure mileage was approximately 122,000.

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Multiple transmission solenoids have failed and the transmission valve body needs to be replaced on this vehicle with a cvt transmission with 80,000 miles.

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Subaru Outback 2010 with cvt transmission bought new. Numerous failures. The transmission first failed due to a solenoid open circuit that disabled the car. Code p2762 ( last week in March, about 2,600 miles). That was fixxed. After this event the transmission would on occasion disengage while still on drive. While driving slowly and after applying brakes to stop at a stop sign. The gas pedal would be depressed, the engine would roar but the car would not move. The transmission would re-engage after shifting to neutral or park and back to drive. The first time this event was reported to the Subaru dealer a number of codes came up; c0057, c0045, c0231, c0232, c0282. Subaru told the dealer to erase the codes and re-program the software. This event has occured three times since then (last week of July 2010, about 9,000 miles). The next time was last week in August, about 10,200 miles. Since the software was re-programmed no codes appear even though the events are identical. This event happened again in December 2010. I brought the car to the dealer (1/27/11). No codes were found. Dealer says that if there are no codes and they cannot reproduce the event then it does not exist as far as they are concerned. The event occured again in early February 2010. To be stopped at an intersection and press the gas pedal while the car is on drive with nothing happening other then high engine revs is a dangerous situation. Consider being in a left turn situation. We have no sympathy from Subaru.

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Excessive noise from the transfer duty solenoid and clutch damage at 26k.

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