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Will the rebuilt engine affect the trade-in value?
-mike
I had a bad experience with a Honda, but I still know they make reliable vehicles, so they'd still be on my list of manufacturers I'd consider. Hopefully your husband will see the big picture over time. You can always push the safety aspect of Subarus, as well... they're at the top of all the crash tests.
However, the AWD system is an on-damand unit, meaning it's FWD and that the rear wheels kick in only when slippage occurs to the front wheels. I prefer the full-time Subaru system. If I recall, you travel on some bad farm roads, so that could be an issue.
Also, the CRV can only tow 1500 pounds, whereas the Forester can tow 2400 pounds.
My recommendation would be to wait till next spring, when the larger all-new Forester arrives; then make a decision.
Bob
Actually, I loved the "on demand" AWD that Subaru used to have. I had a "Chaser" and a "Loyale" with that system. Most of the time I drove in winter without the AWD engaged since lots of times the asphalt was bare. But I used it quite often to get through the snowdrifts from the road to the farmhouse, and up hills. I thought it was a great system - putting the driver more in control just like the manual transmission does. I guess it's a matter of personal preferance, but that wouldn't put me off a CRV at all. What does put me off is that it doesn't drive like a Subaru.
-Frank
On those old Subies YOU! controlled when you wanted to use the 4WD, as you had a lever to do so. Not with the new CRV, as it is automatically controlled, with no driver involvement whatsoever. You just hope that it makes the right decisions. I don't like that.
Bob
He was telling you that if they could have figured a way to blame you for the problem then the new engine wouldn't have been covered under warranty.
Yes piston slap is fairly common with older Foresters (and Imprezas and Outbacks) but it's more annoying than anything and rarely leads to replacing the engine.
Your husband's position isn't uncommon, there are lots of people who swear off EVER buying another (insert brand here) because of one really bad ownership experience. However, if the only problem you've had was the piston slap and it resulted in the dealer replacing the engine under warranty... that doesn't sound like it qualifies as a "really bad" ownership experience.
But if he remains dead set against getting another Subaru, Honda and Toyota both have somewhat better reliability ratings than Subaru so your best bet for minimizing any future problems would be to get one of their models. Of course even the most reliable car companies produce the occasional lemon so there are no guarantees
-Frank
Actually, I loved the "on demand" AWD that Subaru used to have. I had a "Chaser" and a "Loyale" with that system. Most of the time I drove in winter without the AWD engaged since lots of times the asphalt was bare. But I used it quite often to get through the snowdrifts from the road to the farmhouse, and up hills. I thought it was a great system - putting the driver more in control just like the manual transmission does. I guess it's a matter of personal preferance, but that wouldn't put me off a CRV at all. What does put me off is that it doesn't drive like a Subaru.
You didn't have AWD on those old subies, it was 4wd meaning it couldn't be used on dry pavement.
-mike
Consumer Reports just downgraded Toyota's reliability rating due to problems with newer models... and they no longer automatically give upcoming Toyota models the "recommend" seal of approval because of it. Honda & Subaru are their top 2 (in that order).
Of course, Consumer Reports is just one source.
Good luck in whatever you decide to do.
Mark
They have a baby and are trying for a 2nd, so maybe we'll go for the baptism if/when she has her 2nd child.
Where are you again? We flew in to Phoenix but drove to Tucson.
http://blogs.edmunds.com/Straightline/3640
Mike, ya interested?
Bob
-mike
Her concern is not losing any of the music she's paid for. What's the best way to do this?
I use iTunes all the time on my Macs, but I don't buy any of the music. I just use the radio aspect of iTunes, which is fine for me. That's all I need or want—and it's FREE!
Bob
To be honest I didn't even ask if it was a Mac!
I think she just has to re-authenticate the iPod on the new laptop, but I'm wondering if anyone has done this recently.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
Thanks...
My link was the first one.
She left the corporation and her login credentials expired. So we can't access her old profile right now.
So we have the songs on her iPod, is there a way to hack it, get those songs on the new PC without access to the old one?
Try this link:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/copying-music-from-ipod-to-co- mputer/
Actually, she left us to work for another arm of the corporation, but I'm trying to help her anyway.
Plus I use iTunes but only a little, and I haven't used a Mac much since my Desktop Publishing days. I do miss them - especially when we do any sort of video.
Thanks.
As for using Macs - I use them in college but am seriously considering getting one for home.
If it turns out that my plan doesn't work, I come crying here first.
Jim
But better safe than sorry - check with Apple.
-Dave
Looks like you could only transfer songs if it is in the "Purchased" folder in iPod.
I've not bought any songs using another computer to test the transfer,
but seems to be the way to go.
-Dave
Allways curious so I figured to ask the "experts".
Thanks,
Mark
-mike
Subaru doubles the battery range on its electric car concept
This is seriously off topic, but bear with me. This is dependent upon a widely read community of Americans being able to amswer a query from a foreigner. Juice is indirectly responsible, having written of his frequent trips to his coastal holiday home. Comparison of Subaru v other modes of travel discharge the Subaru part of this post.
I have a long standing love of American Literature, markedly different from all other literature forms and often challenging for a non-native. As a bored student at an Australian Boarding School in the early 1970's, I devoured the pantheon of American Greats, whiling away many happy hours whilst listening to such luminaries as Frank Zappa and Alice Cooper (we are talking quantity, not value, on the music front - we would listen to anything with a groove on it - would probably even have listened to advertising jingles if they had been on an LP record!)
I'd like to share the pleasure with my now fourteen year old daughter
Somewhere in amongst Vonnegut, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Poe, Arthur Miller, myriad Science Fiction writers and Xaviera Hollander, I read a well crafted novel of a family killed in a Hurricane which destriyed their coastal home. My memory, perhaps inaccurately places this on the Outer Banks. Maybe I confuse it but Cape Hatteras seems to feature. The contrast between an Atlantic storm and Virginia or somewhere similar rings a further bell, but I could be mistaken.
The era was probably 1920's or 30's but again I could be just plain vague.
The theme of a family lost through such a storm was grabbed by Joe David Brown in Addie Pray (filmed as Paper Moon with Ryan and Tatum O'Neal) where the really big con, portrays Addie as the long lost orphan grandchild of a woman who had believed her whole family lost in a 1920's storm. It is definitely not that tale, but something much earlier and written as literature rather than a potential movie script.
Actually, thinking about it, the Addie Pray story is as good a link back to motoring as this post requires, Addie's possible father, Long-Boy Pray progressively hotting up the old truck they get around in as the story moves on.
Straying back to my long lost novel, can anyone remind me of the author and story?
Cheers
Graham
Bob
It was an all boy, boarding school. I'd read absolutely anything that went by, including the cornflakes packet. Inevitably, the racier literature was hardest fought over!
Cheers
Graham
Being in NH, I was wondering about their CVT with their "Intelligent AWD". I have had Nissans in the past (Pathfinder) and found their reliability up to if not slightly higher than Subaru.
If this is not the right Forum, I apologize. Thanks for reading!
I don't have any real Nissan experience (besides being a passenger in an old Sentra hatch loaded w/gear, w/no air conditioning, through 100F+ temps, down the highway through Ensenada, Mexico and then off onto rutted gravel roads into the mountains in northern Baja!). But, I can tell you Consumer Reports just put Subaru as their #2 most reliable manufacturer, after Honda and before Toyota.
Serge- You must have missed in Graham's post where he said it wasn't the novel "Addie Pray" by Joe David Brown.
-Frank
-mike
So reliability wise I don't think there's enough of a difference to worry about. How did you like the Rogue's CVT? From what I've read it's the feature that gets the most criticism but if you've driven one already and like it then it's a moot point.
IRT Nissan's "Intelligent AWD"... this is a Subaru forum so of course we're biased towards thinking that Subaru's "Symmetrical AWD" system is one of the best
-Frank