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Got my driver's license and a car. Â Fuck to the yes.
Congrats! What wheels?
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Thanks! Â It's a 2001 Subaru Forester, given to me by my grandmother.
Unfortunately, because I'm such a nice guy, my sister has been using it more than me since her car just died and she needs to get to class.[/quote]
Nice! I do love me some Subaru. Yours is built on the same frame as my 1999 Impreza I believe.
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Yeah, I'm loving it so far, and a quick trip to wikipedia confirms the frame sharing.  It's only got 80000 miles on it, too, so  hopefully I can get a lot of years out of it.
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Nice. Do some research on when people start having headgasket issues (you have the 2.5L engine, therefore your headgaskets will wear out before any other brand of car's will). I think 100k would be a safe time to do them. And as soon as you start getting overheating issues, STOP DRIVING THE CAR. I was just talking to someone over dinner who had still been driving his 2.5L Legacy after noticing overheating issues AND having a mechanic confirm its the HGs. And yet a week later he got stranded on the side of the road.
Whattup coolant in your oil and oil in your coolant. Hello engine rebuild.
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Yeah, I plan on avoiding anything like that. Â My sister's timing belt just took a shit, and it would have cost $3100 to fix it, then maybe more, since the mechanic couldn't check to see if the engine was running properly until he fixed that. Â I plan on avoiding that kind of expense at ALL costs.
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2.5L Subaru's should come with a Pez dispenser thing for head gaskets.
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The 2.2L was worse. Most of the HG problems were fixed by the time the phase 2 SOHC motors came out.
100,000 mile timing belt replacement: $60. Doing it right $300 (change the idlers and tensioner at the same time).
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My first car was a '92 2.2L Legacy Wagon, I had to do the head gasket 3 times in the time I owned the car. Part of that could have been attributed to teenage leadfoot syndrome, but still.