Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

It's a well-known problem with Subarus. There's a class action suit about it. My Subaru supposedly isn't from one of the affected model years, so it may well be a long shot hoping this is the DCM. But I guess I'll find out for sure if the problem with my particular Subaru is the DCM.

Another thing I've heard from a random Reddit post is that the alternator's firmware might not allow the battery to fully charge.

And, of course, anything else might pull current for no reason. Or the batter might be fucked. Who knows. I'll figure it out eventually.

I'm pretty sure my 2021 Crosstrek isn't in scope of that recall (at least as far as Subaru is concerned), but I'll do some more research. Thanks!

That's the state of vehicles these days. I bought the Subaru I'm driving now because my 2005 Saturn was getting harder and harder to maintain. (And because I wanted more than 1,000 cubic centimeters of cargo space. (Yes, I'm being hyperbolic, but yeah.))

Subaru is hardly the worst offender on privacy. I don't know that I could have gotten a less "smart" car without getting an older vehicle, and the one I was selling was harder to maintain specifically because it was old.

I think the best we can hope for is hackable devices. Being able to just remove the DCM fuse is "hackable" in my book. I got a robot vacuum cleaner, but I got the model that's best for running Valetudo. I got a smartphone with an unlocked bootloader so I could run LineageOS. I didn't get a Nintendo Switch until the Fusee Gilee vulnerability was discovered. I didn't really shop around for a "hackable" car before I bought this Subaru. But I'm satisfied with the "just unplug the DCM fuse" solution.