Starter motor OEM Subaru or OEM FORD

Subaru knew their customers were gonna pitch a fit about this so they way overbuilt the starter. It’s rated for 260,000 starts which breaks down to a little over 70/day every single day for 10 years. It’s also physically much larger than the standard starter from previous generations.

Bro I had to pull a starter off an old F-250 for a friend. Only way to get anything on the top bolt was with 3 and a half feet of extensions from behind the cab.

That cheap flimsy thing?

It’s junk the day it was made

It’s shitty material and if the nut holding your signal wire on is at all too tight or a little rusty seized that piece will snap right off.

It's just the shittiest plastic on the starter motor.

They're brittle, they do break

They suck , they break , they are brittle when old its Ford engineers fault !

Im going on my third now at 114K Km last time i replace was before going camping 2021 now december 2024 have to replace again

We had problems with the auto on/off (not starting; laborious starting). We got a new starter and fuel injector installed.