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I think your lot is banking on the Impreza getting *almost* 30mpg:rolleyes:. Happens here all the time--I saw a couple original English minicars--an Austin mini and what looked like an older Morris hauled out in peoples' front yards trying to sell them off:grin:.

Since it's on a lot, they'll probably want top dollar--be prepared to haggle. It is a nice car, though. I've had my 95 for a year, and after we got the maintenance caught up, it's been a peach.

I'd use something a little heavier than a beer can, you can get scraps of galvanized steel from a local HVAC contractor (ductwork scraps). If the body metal isn't too bad, just rivet the corners of the patch from the outside and glop it up.

BrucyWV's post reminds me of a trip I made to Pittsburgh a few years ago in my old 86 Toyota truck. It started snowing really bad and I was going about 35 on I79 since the plows hadn't gotten out yet. Somebody went flying by in a new Dodge pickup--probably going 55-60, and splattering all kinds of crap on my windows. I just kept going. Four or five miles later I saw some blue lights in the distance--surprise, surprise, that same Dodge nicely teetering on its roof. I just tooted the horn as I rolled on by.

I was doing fine yesterday in the 95 legacy wagon, got to work, no problem. Coming home, I got hung up on an ice patch on an incline at an intersection--couldn't get backed up to try another run because of all the traffic! What these people were doing out in this stuff at 6:30 PM I don't know--if I hadn't been called out, I wouldn't have left the house.

Not a good deal. Nothing like a good deal. I bought a 95 Legacy AWD in October in WV. Put brakes and struts on it and I don't have that much in it.

Also the LUV engines went into the first couple years of S-10's. I had a '78 and a '79 longbed--my (ahem) introduction to Hitachi carbs.

When I had chevy LUV's I learned alot about cross-referencing parts. Let's see--same alternator, cap and rotor, rear brake cylinders, etc. A local part's chain (Gatling's) printed all the app's on the boxes their parts came in, and they were all out in the store, no hassling somebody to look them up--I miss that.

Mine is at 161,000, got it about 3 months ago--so far changed the fuel filler tube, back brakes and rotors, rear struts, and starter. Still need to do the heater control unit, but I think that's about it.

I had the leaking filler tube on my 95 Legacy when I bought it--if you don't fill it past 1/4 full, you won't waste so much gas until you fix it. Thinking about it now, it's not a surprise the previous owners traded my car in--brakes and rear struts making noise, mileage falling off--they probably thought it was gonna blow up any minute.

I just replaced the contacts in my 95 Legacy a couple weeks ago--cheap and easy to do, but I still had a few "non-contact" moments over a few days. Being a well seasoned Subaru driver, I took a small hammer and tapped the solenoid--then it started. Now it's been several days without a hiccup, and fingers are slowly uncrossing.

I doused the buttons such as I could with contact cleaner--now they punch up like they should, but the air's still coming out the dash outlets. I can imagine the previous owners being careless with the cupholders (there were paint stains on the seats--fortunately latex). If I need to, I can get another module locally, was hoping for an easier fix, though. Any other ideas?

A month into owning the new car, and the only problem left is the control module is stuck in the dash position. I've tried pushing the other buttons, which light up but don't change, and the dash button doesn't pop back out. Is there a simple solution for this, like drilling a small hole in the button and "helping" it back out, or should I just plan on changing the module--I've already found the link for that searching the forum. Thanks.

Don't forget a 10mm combination wrench to bleed the brakes.

The reason the blue book is that high is $3.00/gal gas--that's what the other guy's insurance co. gave me for my 93 loyale 2WD! last month. Company policy wouldn't let me buy the car back, and I couldn't find any decent EA82's either--ended up with a 95 legacy wagon, now I'm spoiled, 45 more HP and it gets the same mpg. The beauty part, the loyale was a $200 parked in the yard special--what a country!!