Help diagnosing Subaru

[ispoonwithmugen]

Since you all went **HEADGASKET** before trying some easier stuff, what do the valves look like? Carbon buildup there would throw off compression. And I don't feel like I saw the compression #s that were so bad that it would prevent it from starting.

Well I didn't jump to headgasket. We took it to a shop they gave us a diagnosis of head gasket. Told dealership we bought from they said let us take a look at it and also said head gaskets (and then offered to pay $1000 to fix it). So two shops said it was the head gasket.

I'm getting compression numbers tomorrow morning from the shop. It was so intermittent I have no clue what it was/is. Sometimes it'd start other times it wouldn't. Sometimes it would drive okay other times it would stall out while driving.