mtsmiths

Two words Zone Rep. It's new, it's warrantied, make them live up to it.

I saw those last night, but was on a computer that firewalls USMB. Wonder how high they'll go?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040897/

Both our '95 Legacy and our '00 Legacy (Brighton) have been switched over to Outback struts/springs. And yes, have both front and rear re-aligned. Two inch lift with the same tires, both cars. No significant change in handling.

Stealerships indeed. I don't know how they could even present that estimate with a straight face. Sid do you have a new tatoo ... 'SUCKER' writ across your foreheead? Please, do yourself a favor and find another source of mainenance. Or learn how to do the basics yourself ... unless $3-4C is meaningless to you, then by all means make their boat payment for them and drive with peace of mind.

When I was responsible for the field rigs (all Dodge Ram 4WDs, used a lot off-road) I bought NOTHING but Coopers. For our personal cars I buy the cheapest tires I can find, they're all DOT approved and must be made to certain minimum standards. After five years and 75,000 miles we're on only the first set of replacement tires on our 2000 Legacy (after wearing out the ones that came on it), and the studded winter tires we bought four years ago.

Total agreement, that's why we call 'em 'stealerships' ... someone has a boat payment due. Have you done the 'Subaru Goo' recall, did they even TELL you about?

Here's another ressponse DON'T DO IT! This guy is either an idiot* or a crook. * At least regarding Subarus. As has been stated several times, Subarus are 'quirky' and you should only let someone who REALLY knows them work on your car. That also means avoiding quick lube joints. Take your car to the nearest SUBARU dealer and have a coolent flush, an oil/filter change, do the PCV valve yourself and go on your trip with the $2700.00 difference in your pocket. Don't let this guy even LOOK under your hood again. This kind of 'expert' misinformation really p!sses me off!

"No reason to lie"? If I look at this statement purely from the Click & Clack perspective my response would be "How big are his boat payments? :cool:

Our local tire store mounted our winter tires on new steelies @ $25.00 per.

Make sure you have a fuse to disable the AWD if you need to use the mini-spare. Take Bounce dryer sheets, moistened they clean dead bugs off your car like nothing else on earth. Go to the library and get audio books to listen to on the trip. That way you can avoide the airwavevangelists out in the radio desert.

This is for replacing coolant. What I've always done on all my Subarus, even the old ones. 1. Open rad cap and start garden hose at low pressure. 2. open bleed valve and adjust flow so that water is going in the system at the same rate as it is exiting, e.g., the rad doesn't drop or over flow. 3. Start engine and with heater on, let it idle for at least two beers, drunk at a relaxed pace. 4. Turn off heater and engine, shut drain plug and remove hose. 5. Open draincock very slightly and as water drains add a gallon of anti-freeze at the same rate. Clean out the overflow while you are doing this stuff, so you keep your hair and hands out of the fan and belts while engine is running. 6. Shut draincock again, and restart engine and heater for another beers worth of idling, rad cap off. Recap and drive for two years ... repeat. To add to this ... it's what I learned far too many years ago dealing with Ford Flathead V-8's which were prone to blowing HGs and cracking heads. And regular vapor-locking ... but that's another story.

I skimmed the article lurking at the supermercado, don't 'member which automag. Yes, boxer diesel in '08, alas, Europe only. They also had a pic of the HB, Imagine a shortened to two door WRX with that awful Tribeca rearend/rear fender treatment and then a ricer wing tacked back on and you've pretty much got it. Hideous.

Tha's the one. Ran into it again my next trip to WA. Parked next to it at Pikes Mkt. on 06/11. Left a card with a USMB howdy. But no reply, not a member obviously.

Lycoming, Continental, Rotax, Jabiru ... jus' gotta get you mind off the ground and into the air, where about ninety percent of airplanes fly behind (or in front of) boxer engines.

My thoughts 'zacktly, sawzall time!

Take a pass. too much stuff wrong, including the fact that the rotors will almost surely have to be replaced. Any dealer that would put a car with this many known problems on the lot is (IMHO) not to be trusted. They are just hoping someone that doesn't know cars will take it, and they wil get off without bringing it up to par. And then they want to raise the price to fix known defects ... PASS. Go find another one.

Roman numerals - eleven, six, fifty ... or - ten, four, forty-nine ... It could also be a very simplified representation of some Kanji or Katakana character set. WTH knows, sometimes Japanese logographics can be VERY obscure to the western mind.

I put outback struts on my '95 Legacy and 15's. Couldn't tell any difference either way, torque or mileage. Did the same to our '00 Legacy too, including Outback springs (thanks Jamie). Still running the same wheels and tires, but like the 2" or so lift.

Hey everyone, look at Sparkless' post count. Let's all welcome a new member. Welcome Sparkless, everybody play nice with the new kid now, and you're dead right about judging folks by their cars. And Detroit, London, Stuttgart and Tokyo make their living from people who think they are judged by their vehicle. I drove GL '87s (in fact we had two simultaneously) for years. I like the creature comforts of our 2000 Legacy (which car we've been driving five years), but miss the 'tractor' features of the GLs.

We've had it in our '00 Legacy for 20,000 miles or so, also no issues.

Sounds like classic airlock, have you recently done some cooling system work? SEARCH the site and find out how to 'burp' the cooling system. It's very important to get ALL the air out of the cooling system, you're stressing the head gaskets and will end up with HG failure.

And ... if you are a predominately highway, as opposed to stop & go city driver, you'll NEVR see any advantage.

Well, I jumped in my winter camo '87 GL 5spd D/R 4WD in Whitefish, MT and drove straight-thru to Baltimore, MD in 54 hours. After several months of work and running around the East (including a NJ Pine Barrens romp with the gang), I jumped back in, this time fully loaded with houshold and personal stuff, including a way full soft bag on the roof and drove straight back to western Montana. The return trip I stopped for one night at a Motel, 'cause there wasn't enough room to nap in the car. When I started the trip, 'Clack' had 202,000 miles on the clock, and I burned one qt of oil each way, cruising at 70-75 the whole way. Moosens can vouch for the Subaru, if not for me ... I did finish off an iffy front wheel bearing playing in the deep sand. Not bad for a couple of old farts if I do say so myself (me and my Subaru Clack, wait a minute, maybe Paulie too?).

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