mike o

147 000 miles, 29 on highway, 24 around town, but now the clutch is slipping, so I have to drive it different, not much throttle between 2200-3200 rpm, so higher revs and less throttle means I see mpg around 22 combined now... and its for sale If you are looking

I do not know if this will help you, but meade-sports.com is where I found someone who will get me a complete,"for parts or off road use" lol twinturbo legacy expect to pay about $5-6k, and wait 2 months... they are even in Connecticut, which is convenient for you but not for me, living now in NC...

I live in part of the country where there is an auto parts store called auto zone, they will pull the code for free for you, then i figure i'll buy the part from them, and the coolant temp sensor was bad and i replaced it, ~$25 and its fine now.

I think it has a little bit of tape on it when you buy it,...if i remember correctly. On my legacy, I had to remove a few things to get to it, big rubber air hoses, mainly, and be certain you are replacing the one with 2 wirs, not the temp sensor for the temp gauge, which is nearby, but smaller and looks different, of course, I got them confused, and thought they gave me the wrong thing because i didnt see the right one until i had tried to remove the wrong one...I think the whole job from start to finish, including my confusion, ony took about 2 hours. Do disconnect the (-)battery cable, to get the computer to relearn everything, And I was told to, after the replcement, to start the engine and just let it warm up to operating temp, let the fan go on and off once, before even touching the gas pedal, or of couse driving the car, that worked well for me, saw some other post today about disconnecting and reconnecting the (-) cable, and driving the car, to reset the ignition advance, but when i did that the car would not idle, it kept stalling...??

...had the sam hard start you have, mine also would have an up and down idle during that time, do yourself a big favor and get it, be careful that you refill the collant so as not to make a big air bubble in th system, and you should notice about a 20% increase in fuel economy too, mine went from 20 mpg to 24-25 mpg, and no stinky startup etc.