![]() I imagine this would apply to all 2.0 160ps engines (as used in the Impreza, Legacy, Forester since late 2005 I think). Well worth the trouble of going to your dealer if you have one of these cars. The flat spotting has completely gone and low speed torque and acceleration from below 2500rpm is much improved. He downloaded the new software into the ECU (took about 30mins). He told me that there is a 'remap' available from Subaru for these cars to improve performance and responsiveness. Fortunately they had an engineer from Subaru UK visiting and they told me to take the car straight down to them so he could take a look at it. Over Christmas and New Year I noticed it flat spotting again and so called the dealer. Strangely enough it seemed to drive better and I thought no more about it. I took it to the dealer and they said that there were no fault codes, nothing wrong with the car, and so they just 'reset the ECU' and gave it back to me 10mins later. In November I noticed that my 2007 Impreza 2.0r (160ps model) was flat spotting a bit when accelerating from below 2000rpm. Tip for 2.0 owners suffering performance flatspots - qxman ![]()
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