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My name is Alexis, I’m french. I just discovered this forum, it looks promising ! I own an Outback 2 H6 for 7 years now and I’m very happy, it’s an incredible car, especially on the snow. It’s an important part of our life because it allows us to life in a remote place in french Pyrénées, even with the progressive end of public snow-removal services. First, it was 2001 green and gold, but 3 years ago a tired french driver destroyed it, the car died but all the family didn’t even realise how violent was the impact. Facing how hard it was to find another H6 in France, we bought one (2002 full black) with a dead engine, and my brother swaps it with our, in the process we rebuild it entirely. It took about 2 years, but now the car is working quite well, we are still fixing a few issues, mainly due to the fact that the new car spent almost 10 years dying in a field, but no fear, it’s a Subaru !

you would be lucky to find used stock parts your best bet if you plan on keeping it on the road for any langth of time is to pick up a few extra parts cars you need your own junk yard or sell it to someone who already has a junk yards worth of parts and help save someone elses baby

You didn’t answer any questions. We can’t see or touch the car and even simple questions like if it’s an automatic or manual goes unanswered. Diagnosis would be ideal over guessing. Take voltage readings. It takes 4 minutes to take voltage readings and find out what’s going on. That’s less time than posting here, and way less than hours replacing all those parts. It almost sounds like you want a list of more random parts to guess and probably not fix this. Here’s a list you can pick and choose from: Verify battery and alternator and starter at local store. They can test them. It would be zero surprise for one of them to be bad. They’re so unreliable I would install used Subaru starter or alternator before aftermarket. The originals last 20 years, new aftermarkets fail all the time. Replace or check inhibitor switch or neutral safety switch. Replace or check crank pulley for separation that’s compromising charging Replace ignition switch Replace starter relay Selector inhibitor (exact name is eluding me) Replace/tighten/adjust alternator belt Check/disable security system, if equipped

Once it starts down the path of eating the gears - no amount of setting the lash is going to fix it. You would have to get a new ring and pinion and that's not economically viable. Replace the transmission with a used one. GD

Aftermarket parts...... GD

Kansas, kind of not so bad. Like one mega golf course in the eastern third. Working the western grasslands now. Wrap up the day in CO. Thought we were going to stay on 70 but we’ll see what we decide in the morning. I’d rather head through Pueblo and down to Santa Fe, but we’ll see what the party decides. Knock on wood this old 2003 is rocking it out. 292,470 on the car , I’d say around 250k on the swapped in tranny and rear differential, and around 128k on the engine with a very recent headgaskets, etc etc

I did not. It was placed under vacuum and charged through the gauges so a shop isn't really going to do it any different. I'm trying not to spend the money sinces it's over $200 to have it done here

Speakers in front doors installed with grilles so they’re protected. I ran the wiring through the factory grommet, I just cut a small hole so that it protects against water still. I also ran the wiring through loom for longevity purposes.