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Bob
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terrorskids do enough of a number on the dark stuff...!I'm glad to see they finally pulled Paprika for 2013. I like not seeing myself everywhere I go. The deep cherry that replaced it looks pretty slick; I look forward to seeing it in person. That's one of the best things about the "Magenta" color on my Fiesta; it was a 2011 offering only.
Oh, and while I feel terribly let down about the photo, I understand the challege. Edmunds can be a bit of a nightmare for photo posting. (Seriously!)
Hope she likes it.
I think you can pre-order now for the next gen WRX. . .
tom
My old girl still looks and drives well. 99,920 miles today. Next week she'll be 11 years old.
Lets see if this photo link works:
On our old Forester, the wiring harness came out of the access panel for the left tail light (inside the car), and you had to slam the hatch on it, which I hated. None of the aftermarket hitch people could tell me how they are going to handle the wiring; so, I'm thinking of biting the bullet, and having the dealer do it.
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How large in KB can the image be?
Bob
-image tag- URL width=540 height=410 -close image tag-
Height and width would be opposite if the photo is oriented as portrait rather than landscape.
Steve, that's a sharp looking Outback! I saw a golden-brown one a few weeks ago at Home Depot. It was an H6 version, leather, double moonroof, etc. The thing was gorgeous! It looked like it just came off the showroom floor. The guy who owned it came out as we were leaving, so I chatted him up for a minute and complimented him on the car. He said, "You think this is nice? You should see my 1990 Legacy!" Original owner, of course. He proceeded to load it up with a couple doors and various odds and ends. I would have never known the car to be used from the way he cared for it. :shades:
Anyhow, I love the green on your car. That and the deep red they had that year (didn't they? I know they had it in '00) were quite striking.
I just prefer the beefier Class III unit. When I use my cargo tray, I feel much more secure with the load being held up by the larger unit. The T-connector kits generally indicate to keep them in the car and slip them out the bottom of the gate when you need them, but I have mine mounted externally using one of the rubber plugs in the bottom of the spare tire tray. I pulled the plug, threaded the unit out the bottom, zip-tied it onto the trailer hitch (with a metal zip), and then split the plug, slipped it around the wiring, and caulked it. You could also fish it down through the bumper shell (from inside the car just over, or through, the frame rail) but I didn't feel like getting that fancy. Mine's been external for two years now with no problems, even though I don't pull the trailer much (mostly just use the hitch-mounted tray).
Trying out another way to post. In the above post the photo shows, but it also links back to photobucket and all my albums. This approach only posts a link, but it also only opens the single photo.
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t456/Fibber2/My%20Subaru%20Outback/IMG_0247.- - - - - jpg
Each forum handles this stuff so differently, it gets very confusing. I'm not sure how to do the sizing trick, Wes, as when I hit paste, all I see is the photo and not the code. I guess I need to insert that prior?
And to do documents like .pdf versions of TSB's, I had to get a hosting site. I'm building a library over on one of the Toyota forums.
Edit: Wow, is that convoluted to get it properly sized! Took 4 tries. Guess I'm just an internet dummy. Should have asked my 16 year old for help!!!
I guess we'll find out soon enough.
tom
Sometimes it's just easier to link to a photo on your hosting service (like Flickr) or upload it to tinypic.com and grab the URL from there.
juice asked me to post Pics of the katzkin leather I installed in the Mazda. They show in the preview of the post but are missing when I actually post. This has got to be the most cumbersome and antiquated site to post photos. Any other site it is just a matter of posting the link to the photo.
I did manage a couple of months ago to post pics of my Mazda3 GT, but using the same procedure no luck.
Cheers Pat.
can post a pic!
Hah! Shocked ya... it isn't a car! :P
Oh, and I lied before.... the dimensions are width=560 length=410. Previously I said 540/410.
Well seeing you are so clever, do you want to come down-under and assemble some Ikea furniture?
That looks fabulous. Who gets the top bunk?
Cheers
Graham
As for knot holes, I much prefer not to fill them if possible. It makes finishing the wood more difficult, but I think the overall result is better. So there!
My eight-year-old son gets the top and five-year-old daughter has the bottom (yes, this whole bunk bed thing is a temporary arrangement, sadly enough). They started using it Monday night and are just giddy about it. Curiously, they still manage to go to sleep well. I still need to build the ladder for the top bunk, but we're pushing winter here, and my wife wanted me to get the bulk of the finishing work done while we could still heavily ventilate without making the house an icebox!
Their bedroom is the first room in the house that is (now officially) finished. Only 1,700 square feet left to go!
We had some heavy winds (for here - probably 35-40 mph gusts) over the weekend. One particularly strong gust caught a healthy birch just right and twisted the top of it clean off! The 25' or so of tree that separated, which was probably 8" through at the point it splintered, landed only 15-20' away from a car I am storing for a friend who passed away a few months ago. That was a little nerve-wracking.
Dozens of trees came down in the area, but we didn't lose power at all. I was surprised at that. In Anchorage, they had the same windstorm blow through at double the intensity a couple days prior, and it tore stuff up big time - even knocking trees over (root systems and all!) in bulk.
Now of course you realize the new one will come with a 240hp turbo that runs on 87 octane and has torque vectoring and can tow 5000 lbs without trailer brakes plus it'll cost $3000 less.
But how does your son get up to the top bunk?
tom
I'm picturing some sort of gadget sort of like how the monster catapulted the little girl through the window and into her bed in Young Frankenstein ...
When I was saying "temporary," I meant that the both-kids-in-one-room arrangement was temporary. Now, Tom, there comes a point in the development of girls and boys where sharing a room is uncomfortable. Really, must we have this conversation? :P
I'm hoping that one of them will be happy with keeping the bed once we put them in their own rooms.
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Cheers Pat.
For The door armrests I had an upholsterer make the covers and I installed them
Just waiting on the material from Katzkin and I will get going on them.
Cheers Pat.
Broke thru the 100k barrier today when leaving work.
I was not disappointed. :shades:
Pat, that looks like an insane amount of work! I'm impressed, and the results are pretty nice, too. I thought I was doing well just applying a waterproofing wax to the seats in my Fiesta.
It is all good now.
Pat.
Normally the inserts are removable, but Mazda has to be different and make them part of the door panel. The upholsterer who made the covers for the armrests wanted $175 per panel just to do the inserts, and that was me supplying the material.
So needless to say I was not about to pay that, so I decided to give it a go myself, I did the rest so I thought why not.
Cheers Pat.
Cheers Pat.
Almost afraid to ask, but are the seats heated? If not, maybe you need to pull the Katz off and install some.