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New car: Subaru's are multiplying in the garage

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Kelvrick

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Happened to be in the bay area yesterday (San Jose/San Francisco, CA) to see Louis CK and happened to see a car I was interested in.

2008 Subaru Outback XT
5 speed manual transmission
90k miles
1 owner, traded in for Honda Accord
Almost brand new michelin mxv4's all around
Dealer maintained at every service interval through 85k (didn't get 90k service).
Lived its life outside the snow (couldn't find anything on underbody that showed salt exposure)
Looked hard to find things to complain about but was in awesome shape for a vehicle that carfax showed as initially sold in 1/8/08. Only thing was a missing cargo cover for the hatch area.

Ended up paying 15.5k out the door.
Here are the two brothers in the garage this morning.
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CraigRT

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I love your white Legacy wagon.. The Outback I am not crazy about but they are certainly super utilitarian.
 
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Kelvrick

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CraigRT said:
I love your white Legacy wagon.. The Outback I am not crazy about but they are certainly super utilitarian.
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Thanks. I like it too and hope the wife chooses to transition to it from her Corolla or I'd have to sell it.

Insomniator said:
Wow I didn't even realize the white one was a legacy. Are they... the same car with a different name?
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Outback and legacy are usually almost exactly the same chassis. Some trim differences like the different rails along the top, body cladding on the outback and different suspension bits for the higher outback.

My ultimate car, a legacy (fourth gen 2005-2009) wagon turbo with a manual transmission was only sold in the US in 2005 (still manufactured in Indiana plant for later years, just shipped elsewhere to be sold) and those are rare and getting older. I decided to go next best thing and get the outback turbo with a manual tranmission (made until 2009) and just change out suspension bits to get it down to legacy height.
 
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Kelvrick

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I have a set of legacy gt calipers, rotors and pads ready to go on. That will probably happen next week. No definite timing on the rest since I'm going to give it a more thorough inspection this weekend so I'll know what $$ will be going towards preventative maintenance.

Front + rear sways, bushings, endlinks
new legacy koni shocks + stiffer outback springs which should bring it to stock legacy height and give me more "load" ability
trailer hitch
STI turbo + injectors + fuel pump (probably only when factory turbo starts to go)
downpipe/uppipe
cobb accessport
 
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Kelvrick

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Soccerman06 said:
Awful lot of miles for being 4 years old. But grats
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Yeah, a lot of miles. I work on subarus enough to be comfortable with them and the maintenance records were enough to get me past it.

dbk said:
Honda License Plate Holder :colbert:
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Yeah, previous owner traded it at a Honda dealership for an Accord. Salesmen had no idea about anything about the car. One of the many things to be remedied this weekend.
 
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JoeyP

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Obvious photoshop is obvious: no Obama/Biden, coexist, or OBX bumper stickers.
 
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Nice cars.

I've put about 50K miles on my forester in the last 2.5 years and really haven't found much to complain about.

Even though I'm just running the non-turbod with auto transmission, still have no issues with passing. Took it through the Smokey mountains recently, was a great trip.
 
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