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-Dave
34 now. Older. Wiser. I wish!
Happy belated b-day, Papa Bear. Hope Mama Bear and the kids threw you a nice party.
Happy Anniversary Ed. I won't ask how many years, so as not to reveal your age! Our 9th Anniversary is on 10/30. Next year makes 10 years!
I also felt the 4Runner went down hill in terms of styling. I just didn't feel as strongly as you did about it.
I'll miss the chat tonight - got a hot date with my better half. We'll probably go to Bombay Palace. They have some darn good Shrimp Marsala, melts in your mouth.
Loosh: that's why I always remove the skin from any chicken!
Guess I gotta try some better duck. The stuff I've had was home-made. OK, next gathering in Baltimore, we gotta find a place that makes some serious duck.
-juice
Steve
As if you suddenly feel totally different, from one day to the next.
Yesterday, I was a child. Today, with the benefit of experience, hindsight, lessons learned, I am....a child!
-juice
-Dave
Bob
Baja STi. Yeah!!
-Dennis
He also had adjustable coil overs, I wonder if those would fit, so you could raise/lower the Baja?
-juice
-mike
-Dennis
Dennis: I rode in the back with paisan. And with two "paisan sized" adults in back, his coilovers were set too low and the tires were rubbing! LOL
-juice
You share the same birthday as Evel Kenievel (sp)
-Dave
Cheers Pat.
Ed
Patti asked me to say hi to all. She's still looking at a couple of options before surgery, even though that's tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday. It sounded pretty serious, so maybe my wish is for a healthy Patti to join us again after a quick recovery. :-)
-juice
it's only mama bear and 1 kid right now (brooKe) ;-)
-Brian
Steve
Chat seems to be a constant problem because 8-9 thurs. is 7-8 here, and that is bedtime for the kidlets!!
Oh well, maybe someday..
HG
Happy birthday to all the Librans here. I turn 44 on Sunday so can reassure Juice that "Yesterday a child, today a child..." still holds true even ten years on. I still have problems with the concept of being "Grown Up" and look furtively over my shoulder for my father whenever anyone says "Mr Peters!".
On the food front, I am particularly fond of duck, particularly when it has been roasted very hot to drive off the fat. I also love the Chinese dish which is duck skin roasted (is that Peking Duck?).
One of the occupational hazards of my job is frequent exposure to food processing, when they have suffered a disaster. There is nothing quite like a fire in an abbatoir to make you a temporary vegetarian. The worst I have had was a large chicken processing plant which went up in flames in mid summer. I had to stick around for four days during which the smell got worse and worse. It was months before I could even look at poultry again.
Cheers
Graham
RS-T---that sounds suspiciously like TaiChih on i-club. The DC cop? His car was ruined by, oh, I forget the name of the shop now....In Penn. though. He is suing the former owners for the costs.
And let's gently steer the topic AWAY from bad smells. We did that before! :-)
Steve
Patti: if the good wishes of lots of friends could heal your back, you'd be playing tennis today. You're in our thoughts.
Steve
Sorry Loosh, my apologies, I promise to avoid food chains for a month, stick to the better local places. We should have gone to Bombay Bistro, got that Shrimp Marsala.
TaiChi and fido are not the same person, BTW. I guess a couple of turbocharged 2.5s have blown up?
-juice
We've had some discussion on this feature, in terms of: Should it be a feature offered on US-spec Subies? Your "down under" experience/comments would be welcomed.
My personal feeling is that Subaru has been offering this feature in other markets for so long, that it should be pretty much trouble-free by now. If it weren't, I'm sure they would have long ago dropped it from production.
Bob
I tend to think long-term, because even if you're not gonna keep it for 10 years, you're still gonna have to sell it, and durability (perceived or real) helps resale.
For instance, I'd like a '99 Miata because is had a rear glass windows instead of the cheap plastic on earlier ones (including mine). My window is still transparent, but I know at some point it will have to be replaced - with labor it's not cheap.
-juice
It's o.k. Juice, you're allowed to go to Cheesecake factory! :-)
Bob
Worse, the grease got all over the place. I cleaned the wheels myself, but the grease ended up shorting out the 02 sensor, another repair of several hundred ($220 for the part alone).
Bad memories, I'm happier now with a 7/100 B2B warranty! No worries! :-)
-juice
Bob
Patti, ditto on the good wishes.
Duck's not a problem on my diet. 8~O chomp!
Jim - from car fanatic to basic transportation and back to fanatic.
I think lots of early 90s Legacys lasted a long, long time, but owners had to get rid of them when they gawked at the prices to replace the air bladders. That's a shame - they might have gone on forever.
Maybe on a $40k plus Audi it's OK, they're used to paying more for service anyway, and they have more invested in the car.
I would like to hear if they are more durable now, though, and if they were a stand-alone option that would be fine.
-juice
* Let's ignore the springs that were recalled, that was an anomaly
-Owners of 1/4 of the Florida Subies-
Don
I'd still like to hear Graham's take on this matter, since the self-levelling suspension has been in Australia for some time.
How about if they offer it as an option? That way it's your call...
Bob
This is probably somethign that I *should* want, because I tend to carry heavy loads all the time.
When I bought new tires, I made sure their weight rating was higher (not just the same) vs. stock, for instance.
-juice
I am not sure how the Self Levelling rear suspension works. However, I can tell you that it does! My Outback is three years old and the suspension has never given a problem. It works superbly and I have never heard of any problems with it.
I will be testing it a bit today as I am intending to take a trailer load of concrete pavers down to my mother's place in the bush about eighty miles away.
When you load up the rear, it sinks normally. When you start driving the normal action of the springs jacks the rear up level, usually in the passage over the crossover from the driveway to the street. I would guess that it is something to do with the struts but can't see that they are unusual.
Earlier generations of Subaru had adjustable struts which you could screw down from a bolt on the top of the shock tower. I saw one such Subaru las night, jacked up to the maximum all round.
Cheers
Graham
They have not offered an extended warranty in Canada before, I have until 3 year limit to make up my mind.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
What happens once you stop driving? Does the rear sink back down?
Ken
In answer to Ken, the rear stays level once you have driven the first few yards, even when you stop. Once you remove the load, it rgoes through the same routine in reverse. The more I think about it, the more I suspect it is something in the struts.
On timing, we are aboout 14 hours ahead of Atlanta (that's where our corporate head office is, so I can figure that out) This is equivalent to ten hours bheing but tomorrow. Hence 8:00am our time is 6:00pm for you. This improves in a week or two when we shift to daylight saving where the difference drops to nine hours. It's even closer to the West Coast.
However, one of the regular complaints of non-USs citizens has always been the difficulties that some US residents have in identifying time zones and differences. I do not take kindly to people from the East Coast ringing me in the early morning as happens all too frequently.
Cheers
Graham
Bob
Never used it again after the novelty wore off after the first winter, but when it started to leak and the car started to lower and look like I had done some suspension mod to race it, it costs me over 700 bucks to fix!
No, it definitely different to the air suspension on earlier Subarus. Never heard of any problems with it here and this is a tougher environment than most US places
Cheers
Graham
Bob
It's partly a cost issue that SOA doesn't bring it to the US. Even if you made it an option on some vehicles so only those who wanted it could buy it, SOA still would need to deal with the trouble of supporting a different suspension. Any new major part of component always brings in quite a bit of cost to support it -- spare parts, training mechanics, documentation. The other reason is probably that there is no competitive pressure to offer it here. I think Subaru would get more bang for the buck by offering, say a 6-speed manual transmission option instead.
Just my $0.02.
Ken