# The opposite of Toyota's problem

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** legacy, subaru\
**Created:** [March 23, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533 "2010-03-23T19:35:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Herrmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@Dave\_Herrmann](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Dave_Herrmann)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533/1 "2010-03-23T19:35:38Z")

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Four or five times as I drove my car it dropped to an idle and the accelerator would not respond. The “check engine” and cruise control lights came on. When I pressed the gas nothing happened. I shut the car off and re-started it and it was fine. The dealer ran a diagnostic check and found nothing.

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**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533/2 "2010-03-23T19:39:57Z")

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Subaru has been making the Legacy for a long time. What year is yours?

Also please tell us mileage, engine, and transmission type.

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**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533/3 "2010-03-23T20:18:20Z")

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This is the most hated problem with the cars of today. It seems to be unsolvable to me. I call it the GM computer glitch. I guess we will be seeing it everywhere else now but luckily, it doesn’t happen often. Once is too many, because it could be dangerous at times.

I have no recommendation that anybody can afford to just pay for as an experiment. I can always tell YOU to replace the computer and let us know…

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**Author:** ![Dave\_Herrmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@Dave\_Herrmann](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Dave_Herrmann)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-opposite-of-toyotas-problem/46533/4 "2010-03-24T13:22:39Z")

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It is a 2005 with about 82,000 miles and an automatic transmission.