My legacy 2.5gx (auto) 2001 (EU model) has some very strange things going on with the pneumatic air suspension.
If we have very cold weather now in the winter around 68 to 77 Fahrenheit for example the car sinks apart in the front over the night, the front is very low and the rear is normal, sometimes it sinks apart in both front end and one of the rear end so i only have one side for example right back who is normal.
if i then start the car the car dosen´t go up to normal height after a while the "height hi" is starting to flashing.
Funny is if i take in the car to a warm garage a couple of hours the car goes up like normal, no problem then.
If we have warmer weather around 40 to 50 Fahrenheit the car dosen´t sink apart over night either.
Today when we had around 66 Fahrenheit i cold started the car and let it warm up, after a while the height in started to flash the car was on this time only low in both front end, after a while when the car was warmed up i jumped in the car and turned it off and started it again directly.
When i was driving out from my neighborhood the car started to pump up the car to highest mode like normal, if i for example go from normal to height mode in the car, we still had very cold weather when i drove away with normal car this time, very strange!
Subaru has checked the car and as usual the have no clue about nothing the car was there with some other work on the car, W
When i drove the car there it was very low in the front and normal in the rear, they told my that the had some kind of error code directly when i came in but after they had worked on the car a couple of hours with other things the car goes up like normal with no height his flashing... and no CEL code..
Anyone knows what could be the problem here? Subaru wants to start changing dampers but my thoughts is heading maybe to failing compressor? because before all this problem occurred the compressor did kicked in out much more then it normally do when i stopped on red lights for example..
Then i talked to another outback owner (99:a outback) who started to change dampers when Subaru told him that they was the problem , the car still sinked apart when the dampers was new, he changed the compressor and the problem was gone....
So im really concerned what the problem could be.??