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Just bought a 2006 Outback Wagon that had bad tailgate wiring. Wires on both sides were broken,so I just replaced the entire harness. Replaced the harness and the circuit that powers up the radio, dome lights etc kept popping as soon as fuse was installed with the car ignition off. Crazy, thought the harness would have taken care of that, but no. Did some reading and some testing and thought, what the hell, pull the radio based on what I was seeing. Well, when the radio came out, it was rattling like a box of nuts and bolts in an empty box. I shook it for a few minutes gently to see what it was and all of the sudden, coins start coming out of the cd slot. .37 later the radio is empty but dead. No more circuit popping. Put in a 05 Radio I had on the shelf in and I am off to the races......with a radio. I have never seen that before. LOL

She said the pan was still dry today! Sweet.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've moved back home to the mountains, and taking the Brumby with me involved a very busy weekend, 10 hours of driving and a few cases of thank you beer. I've also been busy finding a new job, but me and the car are finally in the same spot again! So I finally had a chance to take a crack at the rust in the bumper. What I found was not good... Looking at it initially I thought most of the rust was in the corner of the bumper; it would take a few weekends learning to weld and the result would be serviceable, but this car was never going to be perfect anyway. Actually ripping into it, alot of what I thought was metal I found to be expanding foam... The amount of time, money and effort required for this project has now grown beyond "first project car" territory, however this sudden revelation of rust doesn't detract from the good parts of the car, what was once a good project car has turned into an excellent donor car, I just wish I found this out before I lugged the rest of it with me...