u/GoblinPlasmosis

Welp. Needless to say that, no matter what year model you have, it's worth inspecting the car anyways. Mine is from a VIN batch that supposedly was unaffected, and despite many comments across social media that the issue is a nothing burger, all 4 of my seals were bad.

I waited until 60k to change my plugs, and that's how I found out. No leaks outside of the coils, no help from the dealerships despite my repeated mentions of the TSB. I should've pulled the plugs at 30k like I wanted, but I let myself become convinced that it wasn't an issue. Like I said, my valve covers never seemed to have any oil on them, and my car was manufactured after the supposed bad batches were used.

I spent close to 10 hours just scraping and cleaning RTV off the heads so I could replace the valve cover gaskets and the tube seals. So if you don't wanna end up losing your entire weekend to such a task, I suggest strong arming your dealer to replace them ASAP before your warranty period is over. Subaru is so fucking bogus for not putting this problem into recall status instead of a TSB.