Starter motor Bosch or OEM Subaru

Modern Bosch starters are smaller and way lighter (17lbs vs 8lbs) than the stock ones.

Get the starter that fits a diesel/VR6 engines. No bushing required. Lots of power and spins the engine almost to idle speed.

I think most people don't have issues with hot starts, and the bosch rebuilds are pretty decent.

I've done my starter once, this was about 12 years ago. I did it with a remanufactured Bosch unit. I haven't heard anything about heat affecting the starters.

Its a pretty simple swap. Everything can be done from above no need to jack the car up, takes maybe 30 minutes to swap.

Get a bosch starter from amazon, any starter you get from a parts store is going to be shit quality. Bosch, or one direct from gm are the only good ones.

I changed the starter motor for a Bosch starter in April 24 but after a few months the issue came back.

My 2018 started having starter issue at around 40k.

I have had intermittent issues with a cold start where it would need to crank for much longer than seemed appropriate.

We had the starter die long before the recalls and paid out of pocket and then had to fight with Subaru for some of our money after the recall came out. 3 years later, here we are again with a dead car and I think it is the starter as it is acting the same way it did last time. We replaced it with an OEM starter so I am now wondering if that was part of the batch that was recalled? I'm honestly so sick of this car not starting when we need it to