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well scratch that... ended up gettting a 2012 legacy premium. Bluetooth audio built in

So my 02 impreza is dead. I had timing belt/pulley problems for the 2nd time in as many years, so tonight I am picking up my new 09 impreza. Its an automatic unfortunately, but it will have to do. Really like the car otherwise. My question is if anyone has tried using the ipad dock in that generation of impreza with one of those ipod dock bluetooth receivers. I have heard that some of them dont work with some cars and haven't been able to find anything specific on the impreza. I would really like to be able to use my android phone to play through the stereo, and would prefer not to have to tear the whole dash apart to change the radio to do it. If I have to I will, but I would be happy leaving it the way it is as long as I can get that working. a headphone jack input would be fine too, but the blurtooth recevers seem nice.

Ok, so it was only when it was hot at first and after I let it sit for a while it would be fine again, but now it just doesn't work. When cold it will turn over for maybe half a second and then nothing. All the lights and fan are on but no crank and no clicks. I will look into those suggestions though. Thanks

My 02 2.5ts has been having an intermintent problem starting the last couple of moths. It would start fine first thing, but after it was warm and taking short trips it would not start back up. Syptoms when it wont start were it would crank very slow for about half a second and then nothing. No clicks or cranking. Battery is 1 year old and tested perfect and alternator is not new, but did test out good. So I'm thinking the problem is the starter and/or starter solenoid? How can I know which one it is or where the problem is otherwise? all connections from what I can see to the battery/alternator/starter seem tight.

Probably will never work for anyone else, but when I had that same code it finally went away when I had to replace my ac belt idler pulley. It had been humming for quite some time and apparently dragging the engine down. Brought the gas mileage back up too.

WOOHOOO! Got it! found one locally at the subaru heaven junkyard and now my car runs great for the first time in almost 2 months!

cool. Its a 2002 2.5TS so whatever size that would be I guess. I may take you up on the $15 shipped I'll let you know after I look into it. Thanks!

OOfff I feel sorry for ya. I'm going through big timing belt problems on my 02 impreza and I still dont have it running right after 1.5 months. Do a compresion test to see if any valves are bent. I believe compresion should be around 170psi for each cylinder. I bent 2 exaughst valves and didn't hear any noises turning over.

so as far as we can tell, the reason my car is still running bad is the crankshaft gear that we repaired isn't working right. It lost a tooth somehow that communicates with the crankshaft position sensor. The guy that repaired it did an awesome job, but I think that its still not getting a good reading on the sensor maybe because of the difference in conductivity between aluminum and whatever the rest of the gear is. basically, what we have determined is that cylinders 1&2 aren't doing anything. crankshaft position sensor code is on (already replaced sensor). I want replace that gear, now, but I can't, for the life of me, find what its even called to find one. I think I can get one just at a junkyard (if worst comes to worst I live about an hour away from subaru heaven). Anyone know exactly what its called? its the middle gear in the attached picture. Thanks!

Hehe finally found it! thanks guys. It turns out it was unplugged. Thats what happens when you tear your engine apart and don't get it all put back for about a month- things get forgotten. Still not quite running right, but it sounds almost normal now except that its idling at about 1700 and after about 5min it starts backfiring. No CEL yet, though

could someone post a picture of where the coolant temp sensor is on an 02 impreza 2.5? I've been searching all over and all of the descriptions dont seem to make sense to me and I can't find anything that looks like the pictures of the sensor itself. I took off the alternator thinking it was under there and thought I found it right next to the crankshaft position sensor but it wasn't it. What was it?

perfect thanks!

Still working on getting my impreza running, but we're getting close. We seem to have lost a place for 1 part though and cant figure out where it goes. any ideas?

alright, I'm going with the ones from the dealer, $100 total for both of them just the HG's. I think all the other gaskets are ok so we can probably reuse them, I guess.

What year of sti's head gasket do I need to ask for at the dealer?