Just picked one up for $600 -- 326k on it, 5 speed, light blue. Everything appears to work, and it runs really quiet and smooth, and quite a bit of power (engine alledgedly has only 150k on it). Sounds like it might have a bad right axle bearing and the starter is shot, and of course it's got a few dents and some minor cracks on the windshield, but other than that, not a bad deal. Found a good set of barely used studded snow tires for $250, and it'll be a good commuter for the winter.

another testiment to really how many miles these first gen leg tanks are easily expected to get. I dont expect to see any of them not make it to 400k. the engineers did their job well on the 90-94 legacy's kudos to fhi.....for that era.

Let me know if you need anything at the yards for it. Hitting most of them once a week these days.

 

Congrats on the new winter ride! You seem to choose well for your drive. Do you still have the 5spd D/R Impreza?

 

Congrats on the new winter ride! You seem to choose well for your drive. Do you still have the 5spd D/R Impreza?

 

Selling it... it needed another $1100 to pass emissions, and I didn't have it... That's after taking 8 months to get the title for it.

The low range on it was awesome though... I took it places this summer that there's no way a stock impreza would have gone. I kind of want to do a dual range full size outback -- 96-99 style, sometime, when I get more money.

 

Z

Edited October 8, 201015 yr by zyewdall

Hmmmmmmmm.... so the "bad starter" was actually due to stoned people trying to do auto mechanics... they had connected the ground cable to the positive starter solinoid terminal, and the positive wire was just hanging below the starter, unconnected. Duh... And they had put in a new battery, but neglected to clean any of the crud off the terminals, so they were not touching the metal 10 minutes of minor work, and it starts fine now. No idle till it's fully warmed up, so I got a replacement Idle Air Control to put on it, which hopefully will solve that.

 

Z