New Winter Beater
I bought a new winter beater to tool around in while the miata stays away from the snow. Did I make a good choice?
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Originally Posted by skidude
(Post 797891)
Did I make a good choice?
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 797895)
I don't know. Did you in any way finance the purchase?
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calling that a beater is a stretch.
I loved my subbie winter beater. (98 obs) . We also have a 02 wrx and my little brother have an 03. Great cars IMO |
Originally Posted by 240_to_miata
(Post 797910)
calling that a beater is a stretch.
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Originally Posted by 240_to_miata
(Post 797910)
calling that a beater is a stretch.
I loved my subbie winter beater. (98 obs) . We also have a 02 wrx and my little brother have an 03. Great cars IMO Here is the real beater the Outback is replacing. '93 Cherokee Sport 4x4 with 226k on the odo, purchased for $550 a year ago. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6118/6...abf577fe_b.jpg |
Hmmm... I wonder what goodies are available for it... maybe an intake, catback and flash-tuner.
I wonder what other Subie models have OEM upgrades... maybe some STi takeoff parts. |
Originally Posted by samnavy
(Post 797922)
Hmmm... I wonder what goodies are available for it... maybe an intake, catback and flash-tuner.
I wonder what other Subie models have OEM upgrades... maybe some STi takeoff parts. |
Originally Posted by skidude
(Post 797896)
Yes :facepalm: but it was at 3%
Beaters are things you buy with the automotive equivalent of the loose change rolling around behind the sofa cushion. Sorry. Here is a funny cat picture to ease your sorrow: http://www.funuy.com/pictures/funny-cat-pics-03.jpg |
Thats a nice car. Why are you retiring the Cherokee?
I will own a white 01+ one of these days. |
Originally Posted by jacob300zx
(Post 798391)
Thats a nice car. Why are you retiring the Cherokee?
I will own a white 01+ one of these days. |
AAHHHHH damn very sweet! I looked for a while for a white/grey OBXT and was even about to drive up to Maine to look at one before finding my current light grey/dark grey car in Richmond. Auto or 5 speed? If you say 5 speed, I will be quite jealous.
IMHO, the stock suspension and alignment specs are quite dangerous when it gets slick out. The rear end likes to do scary things. Bad: http://www.absurdflow.com/obxt/JPEG/...re2%20copy.jpg Good: http://www.absurdflow.com/obxt/JPEG/...er2%20copy.jpg 17x9 +48 6ULR's fit fine. http://www.absurdflow.com/obxt/JPEG/...st6%20copy.jpg There's a few subaru experts here like 18psi. It's quite simple and inexpensive to really wake them up reliability. |
I miss my old outback. I'd like to get another and wap and SBC...that would be awesome.
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It is a 5-speed... be jealous.
So for you experts... is there a good reason not to put 16" wheels on for winter? It's $300 cheaper for the wheel/tire kit from tire rack for the 16s. I have heard of this rear-end thing, but I want to keep the ground clearance. What can I do to fix it? |
I'll probably get rid of my '05OBXT soon. It's just getting such shitty mileage (15-17mpg) it's not worth having anymore. Plus the wife has an '05LegGT which looks much better, is mildly modded and has a good audio setup, and does everything the OBXT does.
Maybe minivan time for my 4th car. Bring out the soccer mom in me. |
Originally Posted by fmowry
(Post 798551)
I'll probably get rid of my '05OBXT soon. It's just getting such shitty mileage (15-17mpg) it's not worth having anymore. Plus the wife has an '05LegGT which looks much better, is mildly modded and has a good audio setup, and does everything the OBXT does.
Maybe minivan time for my 4th car. Bring out the soccer mom in me. |
Originally Posted by skidude
(Post 798556)
How the crap do you drive? I've only had mine for a week, but I have done all kinds of mixed driving and I'm getting about 22mpg. I don't see it dropping much below that aside from rare occasions, and hopefully I can get 24 on the highway.
There's a 40 page thread at LegGT about shitty mileage in these. It's all over the board. Routine maintenance on both of mine. I might tune the OBXT but I'm sick of modding my cars. I'm sure a lot has to do with making many short trips which means more starting and stopping but even on a recent 100 mile each way trip in the OBXT I only got about 17 and that was mostly hwy at 75mph or so. |
Originally Posted by skidude
(Post 798548)
It is a 5-speed... be jealous.
So for you experts... is there a good reason not to put 16" wheels on for winter? It's $300 cheaper for the wheel/tire kit from tire rack for the 16s. I have heard of this rear-end thing, but I want to keep the ground clearance. What can I do to fix it? I don't know exactly what you can do to fix the traction issues, probably a different alignment? i didn't research it much before changing out the suspension.
Originally Posted by fmowry
(Post 798570)
bad mileage
12-14 when I tow my boat in the summer with Legacy sized tires, back roads or highway (65mph 4th gear) 25 in the summer, mostly highway, 75mph 23 in the winter with stock tires, mostly highway 25 in the winter with stock tires, taking back roads And this is driving it "spirited", not always at WOT, but almost always under some amount of boost when accelerating. My brothers '05 LGT gets similar mileage with a similar commute. Both cars have manual transmissions BTW. I have a wide band and the thing is still pig rich even though it's leaned out a lot from stock. OEM map has it idling at 14.4:1. I leaned it to 14.7 but it shakes more so I went back. Romraider is free and the cable to connect to your laptop cost me $20 for a USA sourced cable ($10 if you want to wait for it to be shipped from china). |
I am reading about the traction issue right now, but the thread on subaruoutback.org is more than 100 pages long with a LOT of repeat info. I'm on page 4.
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Originally Posted by TurboTim
(Post 798583)
That's odd. I get: 12-14 when I tow my boat in the summer with Legacy sized tires, back roads or highway (65mph 4th gear) 25 in the summer, mostly highway, 75mph 23 in the winter with stock tires, mostly highway 25 in the winter with stock tires, taking back roads And this is driving it "spirited", not always at WOT, but almost always under some amount of boost when accelerating. My brothers '05 LGT gets similar mileage with a similar commute. Both cars have manual transmissions BTW. I have a wide band and the thing is still pig rich even though it's leaned out a lot from stock. OEM map has it idling at 14.4:1. I leaned it to 14.7 but it shakes more so I went back. Romraider is free and the cable to connect to your laptop cost me $20 for a USA sourced cable ($10 if you want to wait for it to be shipped from china). I've got the 'merican VAG cable from ebay (like a year ago). I just haven't gotten around to tuning it with two swaps and regular maintenance on my other cars. Even if I can lean it out and clean up the tune, I bet it's not far enough off to get 10 mpg gain. Oh well, still like the car, just don't need two with two other cars also since my wife and I are the only drivers. |
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