I Killed My 2022 WRX 

For sure! Definitely thankful for them, and for you guys! ❤️

This is incredible! Good on you everyone involved to make sure you got taken care of.

I've had nothing but good experiences with them

This is almost unheard type of customer service. Huge shout out to Cobb!

Yeah, right?? He didn't even follow cobb's instructions, told them he didn't follow the instructions properly, and they STILL offered to pay for it. Absolutely incredible. This video is probably the best PR for Cobb I've ever seen.

Aren't you supposed to have the key in the ON position and not actually ON when your flashing a tune ? Or am I wrong on that

@@FunkyWRX yeah, wow! That seems like the problem! The engine should NOT be running when flashing.

Exactly. I'd never tune a car under warranty

I 100% agree. I don't want the headache for my daily. If it was a weekend car then maybe, but never a daily.

@@2strokeFORever I have an SPT so performance mod is extremely limited, but don't need much. Just get mods that improve the feel and handling and you can have a better driving experience.

Warranties were meant to be broken

drop in filter and no tune is exactly why you will deal with these type of situations

Can't wait for you to put out that video! And I'm actually not the first person this happened to, I received several DMs on IG from people with the same situation, and Cobb helped them out also which was very nice to hear!

@@StreetInspired1 Man, that is great. I must admit your video scared me a little as a Cobb and a tune is in my near future.

He didn’t need a charger, he needed to have the car in accessory mode and not actually running (listen to the clip in the video)

@Nicholas Applegate the car wasn't running. The sound you hear is the throttle body opening and closing. And other electronics. It made that sound everytime you put it into the on position.

@@StreetInspired1 oh, for real?!?!

Darn auto correct messed up my comment meant to say “stepped up” not sent up😅

You can still brick an ECU with a charger on the battery.

I don't think this was bricked due to that--but absolutely yes. I've seen many BMWs go down due to this very simple mistake. 10A charger is a must.

I bought a certified pre-owned 2015 Subaru legacy and the front diff went up at 65K miles. The warrany for a certified pre-owned is 7 years or 100,000 miles. I had the car for 6.5 years and they told me that the warranty expired, because they did the work to make it certified 6 months before I bought it.

@@ashten2005 yeah thats ridiculous. I never understood the whole “5 years or 60K miles” type of warranties. My brother’s throttle body was going out on his 2017 WRX at around 43K miles and obviously it was faulty. The car more than 5 years old but was under 60K miles nonetheless. But they wouldn’t cover it because it was past 5 years. Apparently its not 60K miles OR 5 years but whichever one comes first. So although the car was below 60K miles, it was past the 5 year duration so they wouldn’t cover it. Powertrain warranty is very misleading.

@@rammy3767 I think a law should be passed where every consumer warranty should start at the PoS rather than whenever the manufacturer wants it to start. I know they would probably end grandfathered wannarties after a certain year, but it would help consumers from getting screwed out of service because of manufacturers date, or when certified servicing was done.

​@@ashten2005 yeah that's totally bogus, I feel for you man. Subaru Dealerships are pretty damn sketch and nearly impossible to work with. Did you try getting in touch with Subaru of America seeing if they could resolve?

@@rammy3767 I figured that would have fallen on deaf ears, so I ended up getting a 23' Outback Premium

Did cobb help you out?

@@fayizd654 Yea they helped me out. They said they would have sent me a new ecu if they had an extra one but they paid for my towing bill and all the repairs. It just took 2.5 months for the ECU to be delivered

Thank you! I filmed this video after getting the car back and just got done my tune so I'll have that video out shortly! I want to work on suspension next!

Yes it was the same way with my 2018, stock tune was bad. And with the 2022 WRX there is so much untapped potential with the bigger engine it's begging for a custom tune!

I definitely can't blame them. I even told the people at subaru "I can't blame you for not wanting to install it" but eventually with proof that it was an oem part directly from Subaru they agreed and did the install.

@Street Inspired yup yup, glad you got it all fixed man. I'd be going crazy, waiting to see if I have to set some money on fire to fix it all.

Yeah you can this happens with all kinds of products with firmware. Its not difficult to add a a second bios or whatever to the ecu as well as a battery backup.

@@Gabriel-vj1cf you're willfully ignoring the CRAZY high percentage of WRX owners that fuck up their car by modding and tuning. There's a much higher chance that any issue that comes up is from user error vs. anything else.

That's awesome! I'll be there!

At what point did your WRX start stressing you out?

I've responded to a ton of these comments but I'm just clearing the air since people missed that section in the video. This wasn't my mistake. It was a firmware issue on the Accesport and Cobb has had multiple cases exactly like mine and seam to have figured it out now. But either way I'm thankful for all they did for me!

@@StreetInspired1 OH! sorry about that, but yeah seems like both u and cobb did yalls job to get the subie back on the street!

its good to keep margins

I agree about Cobb, but Idk if that was the moral of the story. He said it ended up being a software issue in the Accesport. So it was never about the battery voltage. I'll probably still continue flashing without a charger as I've done for the last few years.

@@tannerl2971 Humor big guy......HUMOR! With that said that is based clearly of Cobb's directions and STARK recommendation. However if you do flash without a charger and have issues Cobb may not be as generous with the next person. i def don't want to test that though, so flash away with out a charger ..for the record I have flashed (MANY TIMES) without using a charger So moral of story! USE YOUR CHARGERS!.

Fingers crossed, I'm sure they'll take care of you!

SOA is usually really good. My 2015 wrx had the issue with the pitch stop breaking off. And my car was past the cut-off but they still warrantied it!

Cobb told me they had a few laying around that they originally bought for R&D purposes. Cobb is still unsure how the first one ended up being used because they swore they sent out a new unit, so it may have some how got mixed up and they sent the wrong one. The second one they send was brand new and had no assigned Vin which is why subaru was then able to install it.

In all honesty, I never once mentioned my youtube channel to them. So for all I know they had no idea.

The outback and the crosstrek are very similar. Just different sizes. My dealership has crosstrek, Forester, outback, and legacy rentals.

Yep! The 22 and 23 will use the same Accesport.

@@StreetInspired1 thank you bro, hope to run into you one day

I actually filmed this after the ordeal so I'm back! Cobb reset my AP and I updated it to the latest firmware and I'm rolling around protuned on the new ECU Cobb provided!

I haven't even watched the video yet, but the moment I started tuning a car, I wouldn't expect to bring it to a dealership for anything powertrain related again.

@Dan Mac the video will explain. I never take my car to the dealer or any shop for that matter, but was instructed to by Cobb

@@StreetInspired1 nice! Hope to see a vid with #s! Btw thanks for your iir bumper removal video, used it to install my jdm grille over the weekend

Muffler Deletes are still a thing, but the EPA cracked down hard on all that other shit. My old wrx had TGV & EGR Delete and catless downpipe. But I wasn't able to get my old wrx retuned with all of that stuff. It has nothing to do with the new car and everything to do with the stupid laws (mostly originating from California)

That's terrible. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope some day you're able to get back into it.

@@StreetInspired1 thanks man I appreciate it! Maybe when it's not my only car, I've put about 30k on the built motor and no issues but you never know I guess. The stock block spun a bearings and punched a fist size hole in my block. Sad the only time the car ever saw close to redline or full boost was when it was being tune. Idek what it feels like to get on it with the new motor. No lspi either I know it's bad to push it at low rpm. I even checked the oil at the gas station 20 minutes before it happened and it was right where it should be.

That's unfortunate, but I'm glad to hear they took care of you! I actually did send them my ecu so they could look into it, and also sent back the first ecu they sent. Sounds like they decided it was a firmware issue do hopefully future problems have been alleviated.

The engine was off. The sound you heard in the video was all of the sensors clicking trying to initiate the start up sequence and failing and retrying over and over.

I believe you can but you will have to have Cobb re license your Accessport for the 22.

I was expressing in the video what was going through my head. I never once complained to Subaru. I was nothing but grateful at their willingness to help and provide the loaners. I even started the video by saying that everyone I mentioned in the video was nothing but helpful.

they didnt want u as a customer anymore.... bricked it 3 times? lol....

@red-bd3mc Exactly. After their guys said they found and fixed the coding problem every time. Easier to just dump a customer. The ecutek side is jumping on the green cuck train anyway so at this point it wouldn't matter anyway unfortunately.

I had a few people wonder the same thing regarding me making youtube videos but I had 4 people reach out to me on Instagram through messages and tell me they had the same thing happen and Cobb took care of them too!

So initially, I told subaru it just happened because I was advised by a few people not to say anything to jeprodize my warranty. Cobb accepted responsibility immediately and told me to take it to Subaru and they would reimburse me for all costs. But because I didn't say anything to subaru, they were going to replace it under warranty. Until I found out it would be 2.5 months for an ECM to show up. After telling Cobb this, they shipped out the ECM to Subaru. At the time of them installing it and everything coming from Cobb I'm sure they had their suspicions about tuning but they never asked if I had tuned or attempted to tune the vehicle so I still never said anything. But because it wasn't a direct part from subaru headquarters, I still had to pay the full price of the repairs (which cobb reimbursed) and they had to submit a modified vehicle report to SOA that basically killed my warranty on any future ECM issues and could potentially be used to deny other related warranty claims.

@@StreetInspired1 thanks for sharing your experience. I have a Cobb and ETS intake on my car. And I agree I would only answer questions that are asked and that would be it. Also I didn't have a battery tender when I was flashing my VB. It's a 22 and battery is new right? I luckily didn't have an issue but for anyone else watching it might be a good idea just to do it even though it sounds like that wasn't your issue.

@badbeatking80 That was my mindset and although it ended up not being that, it still scared me into using one now. Never hurts to be safe.