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2 hours ago, Crazyeights said:
Congratulations on your New (to you) Subaru! In my opinion it is a very good choice for starting out.
My story is very much like yours. I was young and didn't have a car or a lot of money. I figured out early on that the only way I was going to own a car at that point in my life was to start with something that didn't run. I started doing simple things in my driveway. I got a phone call one day from the owner of a Service Station where I had dropped off a job application, I had totally forgotten about it. I went in to interview for the job and the station owner asked me what I wanted to do going forward with my career. I told him that I was looking for a part time job so that I could afford to buy some tools and go to school to learn how to work on my own car. His response changed the rest of my life. He said "just give me 2 years and I'll turn you in to a certified tech"! I was so stoked!
40 years later and I have the knowledge and all of the tools I'll ever need to repair and build my own cars. I am still in the industry today, and I am currently employed as the Senior Advanced Level Master Technician in a busy 9 bay shop. I mainly do general repair and drive-ability diagnosis. The need to learn new things and acquire new and different tools never ends lol.
Apologies for the long winded post, I have been stuck inside for a week fighting Covid.
thats pretty much how i hope things turn out for me! i'd really love to be a mechanic because cars have always been a central part of my life, especially this car. it's all i really want to think about me doing in the future. thank you for this story and i hope you have a speedy recovery!!
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15 minutes ago, lmdew said:
The Laurelwood Public House in PDX is great!
You by the Workhorse IPA and I'll do the work/subaru training, when the weather warms up.
well I'm a minor and jobless so maybe? if i have a steady job by then then this could work out,, i just wouldn't be able to join you in drinking the beer lol
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25 minutes ago, wyatt said:
mileage should be at just under 200k
the maintenance history is,, not great. my dad was a do it yourself kind of guy but he knows less than me about cars and refused to watch youtube tutorials, it was strange. but when my it was my mom's daily in the first 15 years of its life, maintenance was great! i don't have a written history from either periods of it's life
also thank you for what you've given me so far!! i felt a little strange asking a question like this but i know so little which makes it difficult to ask google questions. hopefully in the future i'll have better car related vocabulary lol.
ah actually it's at 156k, so technically i wasn't wrong but i have no idea where i got "just under 200k".
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3 hours ago, heartless said:
what lmdew said..
check fluids - fill or change as needed. Oil probably is the biggest one to think about changing right away.
you can find the factory service manual here: http://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Subaru/
tysm for this link!
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4 hours ago, lmdew said:
Mileage?
Maintenance history?
Start with the basics:
Check fluid levels, fill and or change fluids as necessary. If you don't have a Subaru maintenance book you can download the Factory Service Manual.
Fill the Tank with the best gas you can get. A can of Heat will help with any water in the tank.
NGK copper core plugs and NGK or Subaru plug wires.
Get some miles on it and then see what else it needs: Timing Belt, seals, gaskets....
The 95 2.2 is a great engine.
mileage should be at just under 200k
the maintenance history is,, not great. my dad was a do it yourself kind of guy but he knows less than me about cars and refused to watch youtube tutorials, it was strange. but when my it was my mom's daily in the first 15 years of its life, maintenance was great! i don't have a written history from either periods of it's life
also thank you for what you've given me so far!! i felt a little strange asking a question like this but i know so little which makes it difficult to ask google questions. hopefully in the future i'll have better car related vocabulary lol.
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I've been a car enthusiast for as long as i can remember, but I've only just started looking into working on cars. what was my mom's 1995 impreza is now officially mine. she's not in my name yet, but getting out to the DMV is headache nowadays. anyways, i'm absolutely lost on how to maintenance my impreza. i only really know things about rotaries, but even then i've never gotten my hands on one. about two years before the pandemic started she got stollen and dumped 20 miles away. there are surprisingly few issues because of that and they've mostly been taken care of. however, she's not doing to hot after sitting for five years, so i was wondering what some really basic things i can do on a tight budget to make her feel better are.
im sure i could search a little longer and find out how to do these things, but i don't know how to word my searches and it's so tiring searching for answers rather than having answers and applying them. so really, anything you can think of that i can just do to breathe some new life into her will help me so much.
shes a base model L, 2.2L, if i remember correctly EJ22, N/A, automatic, and other than mud-flaps, fog lights, and questionable custom wheels from '98 shes bone stock. shes also not a roller, my brother took her around the block like a year and a half ago and she starts up kind of okay. ignites first try, just sounds really sad.
im honestly glad the person who ordered those wheels originally didn't pick them up. i dont know what they would have put them on but they're so butt ugly they would have ruined the car no matter what. those wheels are nightmare fuel.
i'll add anything i forgot and images of the engine bay and those horrendous wheels when its not literally 2am.
and thank you in advance! even knowing a forum like this exists makes it a little easier to see a future for me and my soob <3
help needed: maintenance for a 95 impreza
in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
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thank you for the ideas of places to check!! it's dark out now and freezing so i'll check these tomorrow.
that price really isn't bad, wow! money has been a constant stressor weighing on me while figuring out what to do with the impreza. $250 isn't all that scary! my birthday is coming up and who knows, maybe i'll be able to cover the simple maintenance costs with what i get from that (of course i'd prefer to spend that on different things and to also have a job by then, but at least if those ideal plans go south i have something to keep the impreza afloat)