It's legit from my experience. I provided them with the VIN number, and they use it to get the service info from the Subaru tech site pertaining to my specific car (based on the VIN). The VIN and my name / email is embedded in the PDF.
Now I have an off-line document where I can search for specific stuff when I am repairing or modifying something
2018 Crosstrek ,I get factory service manuals for all my vehicles. I only had my vehicles in for warranty work and recalls, and do all the maintenance and repairs myself. If I would have know that I couldn't get a factory service manual , that would have been a deal breaker for me. I did ask about getting a FSM manual when I purchased the XV and no one mentioned they weren't available!! This is the Subaru's way of discouraging you from wrenching on you own XV. Bought new 1999 dodge Durango currently 336,000 and 2003 Dodge Dakota with 200,000 and going strong. Hoping to get this kind of reliability from the Crosstrek. If had to pay 35 dollars for 3 days of manual time, it would have cost me thousands to maintain my vehicles verses purchasing a $135.00 dollar manual.
2018 Crosstrek ,I get factory service manuals for all my vehicles. I only had my vehicles in for warranty work and recalls, and do all the maintenance and repairs myself. If I would have know that I couldn't get a factory service manual , that would have been a deal breaker for me. I did ask about getting a FSM manual when I purchased the XV and no one mentioned they weren't available!! This is the Subaru's way of discouraging you from wrenching on you own XV. Bought new 1999 dodge Durango currently 336,000 and 2003 Dodge Dakota with 200,000 and going strong. Hoping to get this kind of reliability from the Crosstrek. If had to pay 35 dollars for 3 days of manual time, it would have cost me thousands to maintain my vehicles verses purchasing a $135.00 dollar manual.
FWIW, I did go the factory-manuals.com route and got the complete service manual for the 2018 Crosstrek. The embedded hyperlinks did not work in the pdf, but it was indexed sufficiently to get you where you needed to be.
Thanks for the INFO .I wasn't sure if factory manuals .com was legit. I found a full manual online for the 2017 Crosstrek and has been accurate so far for the 18.
18 is direct injected and the 17 is port injection. That's the major difference that I have noticed. Oil capacity, front and rear differentials, drain and fill capacity and torques were the same.
If anybody wants to share the manual with me, I can host it on a server and post the link here so we can all benefit. This is ridiculous. I have 2021 sport model.
If anybody wants to share the manual with me, I can host it on a server and post the link here so we can all benefit. This is ridiculous. I have 2021 sport model.
Totally agree that it's ridiculous ... but that said, posting a link like that here would put us on shaky ground in terms of US copyright law, so we can't do that. What you guys do via PM is up to you, as long as you remember the first rule of Fight Club.
I remember the Legacy forum had a thread buried down in subforums titles Vacation Pix or something, but yeah don't post things here that could jeopardize the site. As crappy as it is at least the law makes car companies provide some sort of access to these manuals, could be much worse. I just Ebayed mine, it's not that expensive.
Yeah 2021 will be a while, best to wait. Downloading from Subaru will just be a collection of individual pdf's. Somebody will bother to download and index link everything soon and that's what you want.
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