Souperoo

My new to me 2004 Forester has one of those awful antenna's in the rear side window, what do you guys suggest using and where do you locate a real antenna?

I looked again. It's less than 1 foot away but you can't see it from where the book tells you to look through a little panel comes off of the big panel underneath.

Weird, my *new* Forester was fine and after about 100 miles when it sits for 20 or so minutes the vacuum leaks out of the booster. I'm guessing it's the check valve inside the hose. Tried to clean it but it still leaks the vacuum. Do you guys have a generic check valve you recommend to put inline on a generic hose? I can't help wondering if the previous owner decided to sell it after the brakes went funny?

I'm a newbie here and to a Subaru. Been changing my oil for many many years and with the plastic shroud under my Forester, I actually looked in the owners manual for the oil filter location. If you follow the manual it points you to the oil filter and the transmission drain plug! It didn't look right to me so I looked further and found the real engine oil drain plug about a foot away from where the manual states. Maybe that's why so many drain the tranny?

Hello all. Bought my first Subaru, a 2004 Forester with 200,000 miles on it. Probably paid too much so I won't say, it just ran and drove so good, and I checked the Kelly blue book and it was below the low end. My old friend a mechanic told me he has a customer with the same Subaru with 400,000 miles on it! Only major thing repaired on mine is the 5 speed was rebuilt and a new clutch, and it still has a few months warranty.