Bob Keefer’s 2005 Subaru Outback has failed him only once.
It was a hot day in May 2022. Keefer and his son were in the mountains outside the southeast Oregon town of Lakeview, headed to Nevada. The extreme heat and the strain of an uphill stretch of road were too much for the radiator. It blew, causing a bad leak.
“It was 40 miles back to Lakeview, but it was all downhill, so we basically coasted back to Lakeview,” Keefer recalled…