After looking around and found good things about Colorado Component Rebuilders, I bought a rebuilt for my 2002 Outback wagon. From day one the new engine was a lot louder and ran really rough. Then it started throwing misfire errors. I used every trick I could find on the internet to fix the misfire issue and replaced a lot of good sensors. Anyway I finally took it to East Side Subaru in Kirkland WA and they said it was a sticky valve and the engine was also out of balance. After a month of phone calls and emails to CCR with no response, I finally reported them to BBB and Yelp. Funny thing, the next day I get a response from CCR. The response was of little value since it just said the Subaru certified mechanic is wrong and that even though they can't test an engine at the shop, I should continue searching the internet for another solution.
Have any of you had success with CCR lately? I went back to my original search and realized all the responses were from several years ago. Perhaps they take care of their local customers, or were a good shop many years ago, but I'm not finding them to be worth using. Especially with the $4000 price tag. Heck, I still haven't got my $250 back for the core charge and that was over 7 months ago...