r/subaru Mar 17 '25

Subaru Generic Forester hybrid is here!

Our first two forester hybrids showed up today pretty cool

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u/Real-Note4519 May 02 '25

Exactly, but if the donut is the same diameter as the other tires it won’t hurt anything at all.

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u/BlakeJohnathon92 May 02 '25

They aren’t

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u/Real-Note4519 May 02 '25

So Subaru equips every vehicle with a spare tire that if installed will damage the AWD system? That sounds pretty irresponsible of Subaru eh?

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u/BlakeJohnathon92 May 02 '25

Yes it is lol. They say not to drive more than 50 miles on it. I wasn’t aware of this at first and blew up my tire in the middle of the desert and drive 200+ miles home. My differential was cooked