2001 Subaru Forester Automatic
Hey everyone was curious to see if anyone knew what the heck’s going on with my Subaru. The initial problem was a steering wheel wobble going around 45mph, the next issue was the wheel pulling left at around 15 - 20 mph took a sharp right turn and the wheel straightened itself out. There’s been some crunching noises coming from the front end wheel areas. Crawled under swapped out the tie rod inner and out on the front drivers side along with the lower ball joint, thought that would remedy the issue(it did not) after the repairs lowered the car and took it for a slow spin around my neighborhood, noticed a crunching noise when pulling out and turning the wheel to the right coming again from the front of the vehicle. Took slower turns to not affect anything else and just to get back to my parking spot. Pulled into my parking spot set the car in park took my foot off the break and the car started rolling backwards not a few inches but wouldn’t stop, the car will shift into drive and reverse just fine along with the other gears but park almost feels like neutral!
Looking for a remedy or idea for both the crunching sound when turning and the now new parking issue. I seem to think it has to do with the shift linkage.
Posted Jan 7, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC