EJ201 legendary reliability

[ccrien]

Well, just 130 miles short of 100,000 the little GX Impreza has had to have its first ever electrical type repair ( apart from the odd bulb)!      OBD Fault P0032, faulty front lamda sensor.    Car was still running ok except a little rich since the ECU defaulted to zero % fuel trim. 

Replaced easily today, less than 80 quid for an original ( correct plug etc)  Denso sensor from sparkplugs.co.uk (beating £105 at ICP) 

so with well over a quarter of a million miles we've done between the 15 yr old forester and 13 yr old Impreza with the EJ201 motor, that's only a fuel injector, an O2 sensor and a flasher relay in terms of " electrical" failures.    Fantastic.

Edited October 13, 2018 by ccrien
Corrected price

[The Don]

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[johnmacdonald]

Personally I don't understand all of the bad press regarding the EJ25 2.5. Our previous WRX PPP was owned from 2006 until 2016 with no issues and so far, our 2015 WRX STi has been similarly reliable. Both have been regularly serviced, treated to Miller's nano tech race grade oils and with some respect!! Not to say that both have been on the rev limiter on occasions...