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Good advice all around; thanks everyone for your insights. For now I'm going to start small; I bought some graphite powder. If that doesn't help, I'll take it up to the next level. Thanks again for all of the tips.

The key won't turn in the ignition now, maybe 2/3rds of the time (all of a sudden). The only solution is a violent shaking of the steering wheel; then it will crank. Local suby dealer wants $300 (if the problem is mechanical only, which I believe it is), or $500 (if it is mechanical + electrical, which I doubt it is, but which they surely will "tell me" it is). I have been given advice to either "just continue just twisting the wheel" (and that I may get years of "thank god it started" with this technique), or, I can plunk down the $300/$500 for a replaced ignition and not have the worries. What do you guys think? Is it not uncommon for a 10 year old Suby to have "key won't turn" blues? (PS, key works fine in all locks, and when it does crank, the electrical all seems fine.) Is the "twist the wheel repeatedly" solution common, or am I counting the days until I'm stranded? Thanks for your thoughts, Ed

Thanks everyone. Fluid has probably never been replaced, so I will do that. All tires are identical & all new & inflated properly. If the fluid swap doesn't help, I will look to the TPS.

1999 Subaru Legacy, 2.2L engine, automatic transmission, 124K miles. I bought it just last month. I notice that the shifting at around 20-30 MPH lags about 40% of the time. (I think this is from 2nd in to 3rd?) I will be going 25 MPH and giving it more and more gas, and it just stays at 25... does not accelerate despite my gently advancing the throttle. (Meanwhile, everyone is justifiably tailgating me.) When this happens, the only solution seems to be flooring it, which (after 2-3 seconds) will force the revs up way high, and then it thankfully kicks in to the next gear and all is normal again from 30-35 MPH on up. Not exactly safe or good on fuel economy. I am not a gear-head, so all I did was check the ATF level, which was full & seemed correct. Is there a known issue with lagging shifting in the 99 Legacy? Anything I should be on the lookout for, or that I can check on myself? I can live with it if it's just "the way these trannys are", but if I am slowly killing the tranny, I'd like to know in order to be proactive. Thanks for any thoughts.