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I'm going with the quartz metallic SpecB
-mike
Cheers Pat.
Really, with all the silver and champagne colored cars out there, I prefer the black or dark blue to not blend in with the others.
-Brian
I guess I'm of the mindset that black or tan or silver or red, the swirls, scrapes, scratches are all there (and I know they're there), just disguised a bit. I haven't tired of cars or taking care of 'em just yet and try not to fret too much over the swirls and whatnot.
Now, I wouldn't have minded if that dark grey on the Legacy was available on my XT when I got it in '04....
-Brian
-mike
Thought of the new Bronze metallic? I bet the wife wouldn't pick that one, though. Maybe they'll have something in that color when you visit NY.
I like the color in the press photos, actually. The wife did, too.
No black, eh? Realistically this will be the family transport so low maintenance would be best.
I'm thinking Silver or Atlantic Blue. Hey, maybe when the colors come out, I'll put it up for a vote. :shades:
Oh, and sorry about that thunder/lightning with severe downpours earlier this week. That was me. Yep, you guessed it, I washed all 3 cars. The storm came less than 24 hours later.
daughter and I are enjoying the "springtime" weather of fort benning GA as the temps might hit 65 today .... it's 28 at home with snow showers ... (yay) ... we head back in the next day or two ...
Somebody better bring hot chocolate or maybe some hot spiced cider to the chat tonight!!
I like it well enough now, and, with just entering "breakup" (aka, MUCK season!), it looks far cleaner than my dark green '96 ever did! I will give it a good wash/wax at the end of the month before I sell it, and I imagine it will sparkle like a jewel.
Black looks dirty from dust 5 min after you're done drying it!
(But it does look really good for 5 min!)
No one commented on the looks of the new Rex?! Maybe we're all too old here to buy one? (Bob excluded
I'm so bored with my Camry I'm looking at buying something more "fun".
tom
After 2-3 days of pollen (it's pollen season, big time), you see a thin yellow film on my Forester, which is dark green (Acadia Green Metallic).
My wife's car still looks clean. It's a light green metallic, and you can't tell. Yet they were washed on the same day.
The Miata is white, and I can't say I like white either. It is HORRIBLE in the fall, because wet brown leaves put tea-colored stains all over the thing. It's probably worse than the pollen on my dark paint.
So I'd prefer to avoid anything too light, or anything too dark. That's why a medium blue or silver appeals to me.
You couldn't pay me to own another black car, like loosh it almost drove me into a rubber room.
No matter how careful you are the thing is always full of swirls. Now I know they are there in the Titan but I cannot see them unless I look close, wheras on a black car you can see them from half a mile away.
Cheers Pat.
Ken
(To which I chuckle, since even after a detailing you'd have to be half blind to miss the crack in the front bumper skin, the parallel parking scrapes, or the swirled paint. But she does clean up real good.)
Ken
While I always thought of the Outback sedan as a bit of an oddball, we own a wagon and I'm surprised they abandoned the segment they basically own (AWD wagons).
This being the case even though I am not in the market now or in the near future, things change and I can tell you right now! :mad:
No legacy wagon!!!! and Subaru loses me as a buyer. I came to Subaru when Honda dropped the Accord wagon.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
Why they waited all this time until they *finally* put a turbo engine in it and then discontinue it in three years is a mystery to me. Did LGT wagon sales slow that much after the performance bump?
Ken
I think what they are doing is good, despite what critics may say, they are differentiating the OB and Legacy lines a bit. Non-subaru folks always saw the OB as the wagons and the legacies as the sedans anyway. This way they can just go in and look for what they want.
However with that said, I think they should sell an Outback Tarmac or something like that, which essentially is a LGT Wagon, this would keep the "outback" theme however it would give folks who really want a LGT Wagon what they want.
-mike
Cheers Pat.
Cheers Pat.
Bob
Looking forward to our first points race May 19-20 at Beaverun in PA.
-mike
Also when it's overheating, is the rad ice cold?
-mike
Replace "silver Legacy wagon" with "gray Forester" and this would be an exact quote from me.
Ed
-mike
-mike
Remove the upper rad hose from the rad and back-fill into the top of the engine, fill the rad up to the upper rad hole and then jam on the upper hose, clamp it down and top off the radiator.
Let us know how it works out.
-mike
I shared my thoughts on the 08 Tribeca in this post:
ateixeira, "Subaru B9 Tribeca (B9X)" #8045, 10 Apr 2007 11:18 am
Mark my words, especially the part about the 99% of people not understanding that the EPA mpg ratings will change for all 08 models.
Spoke to Patti on the phone on the way back, and also to paisan. It was good to catch up with people.
-juice
Serge
You should be able to idle all day long w/o overheating it. I'll see if I can think of anything else.
-mike
Problem I have is that if it is the water pump, then you would not have a hot radiator, you would have a hot engine block and sensor, but the rad would stay cold as the fluid is not being circulated. Same would go for a T-stat and a bubble.
I would keep topping it off, maybe there is still a bit of a bubble somewhere causing it not to circulate?
When it was overheating now, was the rad HOT to touch? Before the rad was COLD, which would be a result of the coolant not flowing, either due to blockage, air bubble, T-stat not opening, or water pump not pumping.
-mike
Lucien is close by, and so is Hutch. Bob's not too far, and I'm a bit farther south but I'll try to make it up, too.
:shades:
I was happy to see the new Ford Econolines and the redesigned Dodge Sprinter, however.
Biggest disappointment: Not being able to sit in the new Impreza and the 5+2 Tribeca. Note that Subaru no longer calls the 7-passenger a "7-passenger," but rather a "5+2," which makes sense from a marketing standpoint, I think. Also, it's now in step with how Subaru markets the Tribeca overseas.
Nice to meet Charles though. It's always nice to meet Crew Members at events like this.
Bob
I also like the 5+2 designation and even suggested it here a few months back when Bob said that's how they designated it overseas as an "honest" way of selling it.
-mike