mtsmiths

Brings me back ... Tucson, AZ, 1982, when we bought our first Subaru. The "Silver Pullet", 'cept ours was 4WD. Boy did we rack up the miles and back roads on that little car.

It's a non-interference engine, so if you're not worried about being stranded, Drive it 'til the belt breaks. I routinely got 100K out of our '87 GL T-belts. Everything else WJM said. Welcome, have fun, keep the oily side down.

If he got in an accident (regardless of fault) his insurance could be denied because he disabled a safety feature of the car. Even if braking action wasn't a factor in the crash. How's that for adverse? One of the posters had a light last week or so. I suggested he drive thru an automatic car wash with the 'undercarraige' option. That cured it (he HAD been driving in deep snow).

Add it to the crancase a few hundred miles before an oil change. Sorta like a Marvel Mystery Oil enema for your engine. No one knows what either one of them are.

Hair dryer , WD-40, use dental floss to work under the sticker by sawing back and forth. Don't use a scraper.

Given your 'ahem' age. Did you ever hear of a Parti Quebecois activist who called himself 'Le Bison' (sorry, I don't know how to do the diacritical marks). He was some sort of political activist street performance artist in the late sixties, maybe early 70's. I know he managed to get himself arrested on a semi-regular basis for challenging the 'system'. A girlfriend of many years was married to him, and at some point she got deported for conduct unbecoming an immigrant or something. I don't think she ever got divorced, I suppose he died off at some point. I guess they were in the thick of the seperatist movement at that time. I'll grab a jug of Purple Jesus, come up, declare 1st Nation status and help you take over!

But, of course, you must intend to buy up ALL the Sea Foam, and then secede! Non?

Welcome, have fun, and keep the oily side DOWN.

I haven't had any disputes with SOA. I did have a MAJOR one with Chrysler. I got the runaround until I mailed them a real letter, to the corporate headquarters. I described my complaint and general dissatisfaction with the dealer response in the letter, and attached a complete narrative and documented timeline, that noted all visits, responses and lack therof. I also included a cc: to an atty friend on the bottom of the letter. I got back a letter authorizing me to take the vehicle to any repair facility I chose and send Chrysler the bill. I think you may have to break out of e-mode and resort to paper to really get their attention.

Your congressman! Oh wait, they make ALL the laws, so they wrote one that says you can't sue THEM. How convenient.

My $0.02 (US) worth also. On anything but a Subaru this would be commendable. I wouldn't worry, but I WOULD bug SOA to at least respond.

I've had five Subarus and the sum total of all oil added between changes over the years and quarter million or so miles is zip, zero, nada.When my '87 needed oil it meant it wash change time anyhow, 'bout 3,000 miles, but that was after it had passed 200,000 miles.

I hate to say it, but if you contact your insurance company they'll probably total the car. Then cancel you.

We just use 6.2 in calculating weight & balance on airplanes. Keeps us pilots from gettin confused.

I checked the car and there is no name on the wheels. There is (I think) a stylized lion head on the center cap. They are alloy, and 16"s. I asked the cop and he didn't know (drug siezure car) but he sure liked driving it ... 'specially in winter.

We have a 2.2 and a 2.5, both with AT and cruise control. I find that they shift at almost the same point on the Whitefish grade going home from work in Kalispell. I can't give you RPM comparisons 'cause the 2.5 is a Brighton. The only place I really notice any difference is in passing.

Not only that, but have you noticed that we have almost exactly the same number of posts? Could you be my evil twin? Nah, not a Quebecois, never happen. Actually, I have contemplated retiring (should that 'ever' become an option) in Canada. I'm an enrolled member of a trans-border Indian nation (Wyandotte in the lower forty-eight - Wendat up your way - fragments of the old Iriquoi Confederacy) ... and you can't keep me out! Heh, Heh, Heh ... eh?

But, but frag, whatever happened to L'audace! Toujours l'audace!

Tiny, the average American couldn't get a license in Germany if he bribed the examiner. And wouldn't live for a year if he did.

Gee thanks anyhow Rooinater, I'm picturing you driving that thing from Toostoned, AZ to Eugene, OR. It's not computing.

Conner, summer of 2003 I jumped in my identical '87 GL and drove it straight thru from NW MT to Baltimore, in 54 hours. When I left I had 204,000 miles on the car. After my contract was over I came straight back, and finally sold it at 212,000. It's still going strong around town. I bought it at 130,000, and drove it for four years, when I sold it I still had the same clutch and brakes it came with.

DANG! If that was closer, I'd buy it and give it to MudRat to do the cage over right. It does look fun, but it's sooo-ooo clunky.

FInd a shop that advertisis that they do aiviation work, and get new Temper Foam cushions made. A 'tad' spendy, but your butt and back will thank you forever. Ask Steve Fossett.

Put the radiator on the roof, and mould in the rear quarter windows, like a DAKAR racer. Then you can have a grille of solid lights!

Don't you just love it when you're cruising along at a dead-set speed and some bozo in the other lane who can't maintain relative speed in a bucket gives you 'stink-eye' (or worse) because he thinks you're playing speed games.