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I have a 2000 Outback 4 cylinder that has been acting up for a few years. No one has been able to diagnose the problem. The car will randomly start running very poorly. It will cut out briefly and then start shifting gears at the wrong time. Either it will jump into gear reving too high or thump into gear reving too low. The car cannot be driven this way. I put it in neutral pull over, turn it off, press the gas 2X and restart. This seems to reset something and the car runs fine till the next time. The oil at temp light aways comes on when this happens. I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem but the car runs fine in the winter when it is very cold, and tends to act up more in warmer weather, perhaps fog conditions, or dusty conditions. Some days it will act up repeatly and then it will go for weeks with nothing. For the most part it appears to be random. It would be so nice to have this problem fixed. I don't think it's the transmission because most of the time it runs fine. Somewhere on this forum someone else had a simuliar problem and intermittent Duty C failure was suggested. Anyone here have suggestions. Any help would be appreciated.