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  • kenskens Member Posts: 5,869
    Kate,

    I heard that Madico used to be good, but they've recently run into QC control issues. A local tint shop told me that they stopped using them.

    3M and Lumlar (sp?) should be good choices. Never heard of Johnson.

    Ken
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Good flick. I've seen it several times.

    Bob
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    Leeberbs who does tints on our cars over @ Nabisco uses MADICOs and no has complained about its QC.

    -Dave
  • originalbitmanoriginalbitman Member Posts: 920
    Mine is holding up perfectly. But then it was installed in Jan 01. I think sometimes shops like those that do tint push products (and slam others) depending on how the manufacturer or its rep treats them. When I was shopping for tint I had several shops say they don't use the tint the other shop uses because it wasn't a good product anymore.

    bit
  • hondafriekhondafriek Member Posts: 2,984
    I have Llumar tint on all my cars never had a problem.

      Cheers Pat.
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    Was at the dealer today talking to a long-time salesman. He mentioned that he has an XT with over 230k on the odo and hasn't had to do anything but routine maintenance. Even the turbo is original so I guess the early turbos weren't necessarily as unreliable as has been reported.

    By the way, said salesman had just gotten back from a field trip to Pittsburgh(?) where he got to demo the STi on a closed course. Talk about perks of the job! He said it was a blast (literally) zooming thru turns at 130 mph (pro driver at the wheel natch). One guy was so scared that he actually pulled the grab handle loose (it's bolted to the frame).

    -Frank P.
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    the Aborigine children who walked across the continent to be reunited with their families. A incredibly backwards social policy on blood line purity lead to their forced removal from the tribe. (I am trying to put this nicely...). I cannot remember the name of it, but it is another 'must see'.

    Steve
  • lark6lark6 Member Posts: 2,565
    Steve: Rabbit-Proof Fence is the name of that movie IIRC.

    Ed
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    "Rabbit-Proof Fence" is the name of that movie.

    Re: Hugo Weaving - Don't forget he also portrays the Elf, Elrond, in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy movies!
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    ...Ed..ya beat me to the punch. :-p
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    Rabbit-Proof Fence is indeed correct! Thanks... What a sad movie, and time in history.

    Steve
  • twrxtwrx Member Posts: 647
    Music by Peter Gabriel!
  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    Saw the attacehed articale in the Melbourne Age today. Interesting take on the rear styling

    http://www.drive.fairfax.com.au/content-new/news/general/2003/08/- 12/FFXVGY5T8JD.html

    Cheers

    Graham
  • paisanpaisan Member Posts: 21,181
    The USDM model will get the monotone effect that the Aussie market gets.

    -mike
  • grahampetersgrahampeters Member Posts: 1,786
    G'day

    Not seen the movie although the story is basically true. From about the 1920's to 1950's Australian indiginous children of mixed parentage ("half-castes") were sometimes forcibly removed from their parents and placed in care. The government of the day adoted a paternalistic attitude to care of the aborigines (or natives) as they were offensively known. The idea was to keep the tribes racially pure. Bad luck about families!

    Today, we would refer to Australia's indiginous people as Koori, which I think translates roughly as People. There are distinct similarities to the cultural life of the Australian and North American native people, from their self description as The People to religious practices and belief in a creation story.

    Australian Koori numbered about 300,000 at the tiem of white settlement; a similar number today. They are generally very poor despite on-going government assistance. Life span is low and health problems endemic.

    All of the problems that occur in US native affairs are replicated here. Currently there is a major drama unfolding around the chairman and deputy chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Council who are, for separate reasons, alleged to have been involved in sundry scandals.

    Unfortunately it is the down side of Australian life. Nowehere near the racial divide so apparent in say, rural southern USA, but pretty dire, none the less.

    Cheers

    Graham
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    Thanks as always for the insight into affairs so far from these shores. Unfortunately, racial and religious injustice continues to afflict mankind the world over. And as you stated, true equality has yet to come to many a minority even in the USA. When will we learn?

    Interesting link to the new OBW. Curious that it states that the new cars are marginally larger than the current models, while C&D magazine's quick review of the JDM Legacy says 2-3 inches shorter. Bumper protrusion, maybe?

    Steve
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Outback looks good, but the Legacy looks even better with the new design. It's more sleek, and the Legacy leaves a cleaner look. I like both, though.

    Frank: that's exactly how I'd describe riding shotgun in paisan's car! The XT6's grab handles must be tougher! LOL

    -juice
  • c_hunterc_hunter Member Posts: 4,487
    I also hope that we get monotone. However, the Outback pictures in that article could be misleading, since the whole car is colored in a similar platinum as our lower-side cladding! Maybe that one just "looks" monotone!

    I do like the smooth "low" cladding compared to the ribbed knee-high stuff we have now. It looks a heck of a lot cleaner and less cluttered.

    I have promised to keep my current Outback for a long time, so it's going to be tough watching these new models show up next year.....

    Craig
  • bluesubiebluesubie Member Posts: 3,497
    Yeah, I promised to keep my WRX for a long time. It's getting really tough after seeing a few STi's. :-) ..Must .. resist ...

    -Dennis
  • Karen_SKaren_S Member Posts: 5,092
    Stop by and check out Patti's corner!

    Subaru Crew: Official SOA Presence (aka Patti)
  • kate5000kate5000 Member Posts: 1,271
    I do miss the Winestone+"golden" cladding though... that was one beautiful-looking car!
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    image

    -Brian
  • nygregnygreg Member Posts: 1,936
    Wow is that clean. Need to shut down my PC now so my Winestone OB doesn't see the picture.

    Greg
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    oi...that's really clean 8-o

    -Dave
  • kate5000kate5000 Member Posts: 1,271
  • kate5000kate5000 Member Posts: 1,271
    Ross and all,
    We have a new baby car in the family. It's definitely SHE. She's silver, with tinted windows. She's obedient, let shows her character from time to time. She has an older brother Silvius (Forester). She's a cure for someone's midlife crisis.

    What's the best name for her?
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    and Winestone is a 'classic' color since it was discontinued. That pic (also in my profile) was taken just after it was clayed and AIO'd in June.

    My Outback is a 'he'. AKA Soooooob, 'Daddy's Car', da wagon.

    -Brian
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    how 'bout "Rexie?" (short for Rexella)

    Would look good on vanity tags...

    Bob
  • jfljfl Member Posts: 1,399
    So...is Rexie AKA Queenie?

    Jim
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    of thinking here! It's a shame you can't make the RX (prescription) symbol on a tag (as the antidote for midlife crisis).

    I'm going to enjoy reading the post here!

    Is she broken in yet?

    Patti
  • ateixeiraateixeira Member Posts: 72,587
    Papa Bear: if it weren't for that spoiler, that would be my dad's car!

    "Silvia" is already taken, right? Rexie is fun.

    Funny side note - my brother-in-law is visiting from CT, and I've almost got him hooked on the idea of an Outback. It would most likely be used, to replace his Taurus wagon that's starting to give him problems.

    Bob - sound familiar? A relative in the NE buying a used OB?

    The main negative? Resale is too good, so used prices are higher than he's used to! LOL

    -juice
  • hypovhypov Member Posts: 3,068
    Sim-Yin or In-Yin

    Sim-Yin = Flash/Ligthning Shadow
    In-Yin = Silver Shadow

    "Shadow" for its obedience [always following you] and showing its character from time to time [shadow appears when there's light].

    -Dave

    p/s my phonetics may be off.

    edit: Perhaps Ken can give it a Japanese flavor :)
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Bob - sound familiar? A relative in the NE buying a used OB?
  • bat1161bat1161 Member Posts: 1,784
    I just found out, for those in NYC, that Tom Clancy will be signing his new book today at Noon at the Downtown Borders Book store. I'm leaving in a few minutes to go stand on line.

    Mark
  • p0926p0926 Member Posts: 4,423
    But you're driving your Subaru to the store. Right?
  • bat1161bat1161 Member Posts: 1,784
    To be on topic: I will have the book with me when I am in my OB waiting for my wife at the bus/train stop.

    Mark
  • fibber2fibber2 Member Posts: 3,786
    in US NEWS & World Report on-line addition....

    http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030818/misc/18help.htm?track=r- ss

    Steve
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    PP = Pit-bull Patti. ;)

    Bob
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    I was really hoping that they would emphasize the Edmunds part.

    Oh well - but it did make me smile! ;-)

    Patti
  • earthwomanearthwoman Member Posts: 47
    How exciting Patti! Congrats.

    I have already had my 15 minutes of fame but you'll never find out where. LOL

    Rebecca
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    Hmm - you're with the Gov's office right? Research time!!!

    Patti
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    Same here, but you'd never guess in a million years what it is.

    Bob
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    Well folks, either give me clues or else I'm going to have to take it from my Edmunds time! I need to know (curious nature and all). You're choice?

    Patti
  • nygregnygreg Member Posts: 1,936
    Our "consumer crusader in disguise". I thinks Patti deserves a cape with a big "S" on it. "S" for Subaru of course.

    He,he

    Greg
  • c_hunterc_hunter Member Posts: 4,487
    That's a good story! Nice going Patti (our new corporate captain). Reflects very positively on Subaru.

    Craig
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    it happened over 20 years ago, and it was on national TV.

    Bob
  • earthwomanearthwoman Member Posts: 47
    I was in a press conference, interviewed by TIME Magazine and on a National Radio Talk Show back when the Anthrax scare was at its heigth. It was exciting and scary but I would have preferred to not have had the Anthrax deaths and remained unknown. (As if I am known now! LOL)

    I am a supervisor in a dept that deals with the Governor's mail so we were on edge for months wondering if he'd be sent something contaminated that one of us would open. It was crazy.

    Rebecca
  • rshollandrsholland Member Posts: 19,788
    in a Baltimore historic district, where my wife and re-habed an old 1850s-era row house. For some reason CBS News (I think it was CBS, but I'm not sure) chose Baltimore to do a TV spot for Dan Rather's news program. They were searching for living rooms in historic Baltimore neighborhoods to use as a backdrop to shoot a TV commercial promoting Dan Rather's show.

    God only knows why, but they selected our house, which apparently was recommended to them by someone(?). So, they took over our house (and street with all their TV trucks, and crew) for one day to shoot this commercial. And yes, we got paid for it. The commercial ran for several months, and we saw it a number of times on TV.

    Bob
  • subearusubearu Member Posts: 3,613
    since everyone else is dishing their stories about fame, here goes mine.

    When I was about 8 or 9, I played the Grand Prize Game on Bozo's Circus (a famous Chicago show). Unfortunately I only made it to bucket #4. :( Don't have it on video, but do have a picture of me playing the game.

    I don't really count my Drive letter as my claim, since it's just a blurb about my license plate (no picture).

    -Brian
  • subaru_teamsubaru_team Member Posts: 1,676
    I've led such a sheltered life (other than our "fire" which was on the local news - some of the regulars here might remember that mess).

    Rebecca - that was such a scary time. We had folks afraid to open mail too. I wish we'd known you then - both for the support and to see you on TV!

    Bob & Dan Rather - gettin' cozy on the sofa! Nice!

    Brian and Bozo with Bucket #4? Well, did you win anything?? I'd love to see the picture!

    Patti
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