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Cleck
09-30-2012, 08:10 PM
Just thought I'd pop in and say hi. Got directed here from my friends at buffaloscooby.com, as I have a Legacy wagon that I'm driving/working.

Real quick intro (daughter wants to watch Avengers again :grin: ):

I'm a Chevy mechanic, and I own a 12 Cruze, 98 Legacy Outback Limited (BG) and a 91 Toyota MR2 Turbo for my fun/summer car.

Bought the Legacy last year for the wife, but she has taken to driving the Cruze when I am driving the MR2. Currently it needs rear struts, but I'll also be replacing the mounts and insulators/boots too. As all Subaru's up here suffer from the same things, my mid pipe has rotted off. So I'll be ordering a new resonator pipe for that this week too. Although I work at a Chevy dealer now, I used to work at an independent garage that serviced a bunch of Subies. I'm used to the exhaust and brake problems they have, at least when you don't replace them with OE parts :roll: Car has about 180k on the clock and I've already done a bunch of work on it since I bought it (front/rear pads/rotors, front calipers, brake lines, headlight (adjusters broken/rusted) and now I need another one, bulbs, etc).

I'll get some pics up later, at least to show what I've got going on and I'll be searching the forums for some other problems I seem to have.

Cleck
09-30-2012, 11:15 PM
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It's nice to have the heated leather seats, but they don't appear to work. The light comes on, but I haven't felt them work yet. Some people say they take a while to "warm" up? Everything else seems to work that's heated (mirrors, wipers), so hopefully these do too.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/09/6316324723_7c8a42bc4a_b-1.jpg

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This was taken Saturday night, had the rear end jacked up to remove the struts. Should have those parts and my exhaust coming this week, then she'll be better than new (to me)!

Reason
10-01-2012, 07:22 AM
Welcome SLi!

Peter Farter
10-02-2012, 05:36 AM
Hello and welcome! :grin:

Cleck
10-02-2012, 08:54 AM
Thanks guys! Hoping to be a decent (I'll use that loosely) contributing member in some way :)

Parts ordered yesterday; ended up ordering rear struts, coil insulators, boot kits, resonator pipe and associated hardware :) Excited to get her back on the road in time for winter

Huffer
10-02-2012, 11:20 AM
Welcome along! Don't forget to start a thread about that MR2.

Cleck
10-02-2012, 11:33 AM
Got enough server space for that? Haha. Its history is quite long

Huffer
10-02-2012, 12:45 PM
Bring it!

Cleck
10-02-2012, 12:59 PM
You asked for it ;)