If I accelerate from a stop with the steering wheel turned I'm getting a rumble that I can feel through the wheel and gas pedal and it has a kinda deep throaty sound. This doesn't happen at all when the wheel is straight or even close to straight, only with the wheel turned a significant amount. In all of my old 4WD rigs this would happen if the front hubs were locked but that was expected, it was called chunking or something similar, but I've never experienced this with any of my Subarus. Has anyone else noticed this? It seems to be getting worse as the miles build, wasn't noticeable at all when new but after 11,500 miles it happens almost all the time now.
gravitylover
For these funky vibrations, rumble, ghost walks, and other strange front end things, as a test you might want to try putting 4 adults in the car or 200 pounds of sand bags in the cargo area. If the funky stuff stops then the rear wheel alignment toe in needs to be decreased (with no weight in the car). The decreased toe in should help a little but this cars design will never be as stable as you would like it to be for highway driving because of the ride height. This is more so for vehicle designs like jeeps with aftermarket lifts ("aka" Impreza with a lift ). A car/truck could get too much rear toe in as air (highway speed, wind, turning, exc.) pushes up the car body and the Subarus rear lateral link arm will change the rear wheel toe in to compensate for the rise in body height. The adjustment will set the toe in as if you had passengers in the car. Makes sense. This information comes from an alignment shop with over 50 years experience.
After hearing "feels like a normal Crosstrek" from a few Subaru dealer techs for the same vibrations/rumble you all are experiencing, I had my MY14 Crosstrek (12K miles) aligned today from an general alignment shop ($129 out of my pocket) and after driving it for 90 min car feels a lot better but there is still a slight trace of vibration/rumble as you all posted. I will post again after some more driving time.
After hearing "feels like a normal Crosstrek" from a few Subaru dealer techs for the same vibrations/rumble you all are experiencing, I had my MY14 Crosstrek (12K miles) aligned today from an general alignment shop ($129 out of my pocket) and after driving it for 90 min car feels a lot better but there is still a slight trace of vibration/rumble as you all posted. I will post again after some more driving time.
Anyone think that these vibrations and alignment problem is why SOA issued this TSB?
2014 Subaru Xv Crosstrek structure body TSB (Bulletin TSB-05-57-14)
Bulletin Date: Feb. 20, 2014
Component: Structure body
Bulletin Summary: Subaru: a change has been made to the mounting bolts used for securing the front cross member to the vehicle body. The thickness of the flange at the base of the bolt's hex has increased to 5mm. Also included Subaru sti/brz model year 2014.
Vehicles covered in this TSB:
2014 Subaru Forester, 2014 Subaru Impreza, 2014 Subaru WRX, 2014 Subaru Xv Crosstrek
2014 Subaru Xv Crosstrek structure body TSB (Bulletin TSB-05-57-14)
Bulletin Date: Feb. 20, 2014
Component: Structure body
Bulletin Summary: Subaru: a change has been made to the mounting bolts used for securing the front cross member to the vehicle body. The thickness of the flange at the base of the bolt's hex has increased to 5mm. Also included Subaru sti/brz model year 2014.
Vehicles covered in this TSB:
2014 Subaru Forester, 2014 Subaru Impreza, 2014 Subaru WRX, 2014 Subaru Xv Crosstrek
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