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I feel the same with my '02 Subaru Outback and I'm still under 200k!
I used to have one of those and loved it but 3 head gasket replacements was too many and it was time to move on. Good luck with yours!
How many miles were you at? I've only had to replace them once. Had the car for about 6 years now and got it for a flat $5k in great condition. The thing still runs as great as the day I got it. Although I did upgrade it with a new stereo but I keep the stock speakers, which are actually amazing and on par with anything modern imo. Though the stereo install was messy and botched because the person had no idea what they were doing (me). I need to do some small little cosmetic fixes on it though, but it's mostly small wear and tear stuff from use over the years.
I had a model year 2002 as well, and it went through head gaskets pretty reliably every 30-35k miles. The failure mode wasn’t catastrophic damage every time, but it wasn’t pretty. I think exhaust gases would start getting into the coolant especially when the engine got hot, so I’d be maybe going uphill and notice the temperature spiking. Then I could pull off to the side of the freeway and wait for 30 minutes, start out again and drive home slowly.
Subaru admitted a gasket design fault for something like model years 1998 through 2000, but claimed for a while that everything was fine in 2001 and 2002, jerking me around and generally being awful.
It’s too bad. It was my second car and I was excited for the reputation of reliability and capability of Subaru, but it left such a sour taste in my mouth that I’ll never buy one again.
That is going to break at some point.
I mean, I get the sentiment, but that is just not going to be a realistic long-term solution for "people are not happy with changes in newer vehicles".
Yeah and the sun is going to burn out at some point, too.