it has 127k, automatic, old man owned an operated. Do these have the legendary subaru reliability ? any chronic problems with this platform. we had an 89 wagon that was tough as hell, and my boss has a forester that has been beat on hard and is still going strong. I am thinking of this a commuter/ work vehicle, my I have to go around the edges of fields sometimes and i am worred about sticking my crown vic. ( i will be selling it if I get the wagon). the 4cyl and AWD are the biggest things for me, and the low ass price my neighbor has set.

11/10/2007 6:12:39 PM

I'd seriously think about it, especially if you get it at a good price.

The only things I don't like about a lot of these is if they have the load-leveling suspension (read: air-bag struts). I think you can retrofit them with standard struts. I THINK.

I used to use my 1st-gen Integra when I was doing soils mapping. Amazing what that car went through. About a foot of standing water/Iredell muck killed the engine one year on a job site out in Chatham County. I had no air filter on it at the time. Rod ventillated the block on the front and the back and took out the main journal girdle.

[Edited on November 10, 2007 at 6:20 PM. Reason : blah...]

11/10/2007 6:19:16 PM

^ damn, Iredell is bad news for everything then.

the wagons are light which helps alot. a wagon with a lift kit would be fuckin awesome, pretty common in Australia from what I have gathered. my neighbor wants $2800 for it, hes had it forsale for a while and wants to buy another blazer.

11/10/2007 6:27:13 PM

That whole job was crap. We were out there trying to find as many drainfield sites as we could in fucking slate belt shit. Most of the lots were 3 acres plus, and some were as big as 7 to 10 acres. Most of it expansive as hell. LTARs of 0.2 to 0.225 for a lot of repair areas, and the absolute best sites we found had LTARs of around 0.3 to 0.35 g/ft^2/d. But back then we didn't have to design pressure manifolds for a lot of them, as Chatham permitted serial distribution for sites under a certain linear footage.

I'd totally rock a Subaru Legacy. It was one of my choices back when I needed something like that.

11/10/2007 6:33:27 PM

$2800 sounds good. What's the guy's phone number???

11/10/2007 6:59:47 PM

328-7448


( thats EAT-SHIT incase you have to give a number to a fattie

11/10/2007 9:16:38 PM

that's fucking awesome...

11/10/2007 9:32:33 PM

Hahaaa.

11/10/2007 9:46:29 PM

you better call Jack and tell him you want that car before it gets gone

11/11/2007 10:27:00 AM

No shit. The vultures are already circling overhead.

11/11/2007 12:35:31 PM

I bought this wagon over Thanksgiving, runs good, drives good. All the shit works save the fuel gauge and the lights on the HVAC panel. The fuel light does work, which is a good thing. I think the problem is the sender unit, the needle climbed when I filled it up from near empty, then slowly fell. I think the float is leaking. I need to replace the O ring on the oil filler neck.

I was messing with it on a state dirt road with no gravel, bitch will hook up and go. No spinning, just forward.


It has steel rims and hubcaps, I wonder if I can get some alloy wheels off a later ( gen 3) wagon?

11/26/2007 7:27:11 PM