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Old 12 Sep 2004, 01:58 pm
roger
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Default Re: 02/03 Impreza (a real piece-o-junk in the Subaru/FHI tradition !!)

Yeah, you can also have my address for the bagels----'84 GL wagon,
300,104 miles. Gonna use the bagels for what they are intended, new
wheels for my Delta tablesaw! *Sigh*
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"Henry Paul" <callisto@email.uophx.edu> wrote in message news:<10k22ivrs2oof45@corp.supernews.com>...
> I accept your challenge.
>
> http://hometown.aol.com/nv1z/subaruh...eage.html?f=fs
>
> Go to gallery and you will find links for 100, 200, 300, 400k miles. (I
> think the 400 section is still blank at this point in time.)
>
> I personally have 103k on my '96 Impreza. My dad has a '95 and '93 with 155k
> and 165k respectively. Neither of us has had any problems whatsoever.
>
> As far as engine temps I really don't know what you are talking about. I can
> park my car from highway driving and pop the hood. Before I can get my oil
> pan in position the car is cool enough to change the oil. Neither of us has
> any kind of fluid leak either.
>
> If you want to complain about leaks and engine problems, maybe you should go
> hang out in a Jeep forum. ;-)
>
> So, do you want my address for the bagels?
>
> --
> Henry Paul
>
>
> "Vernacular? That's a derby!" <boing3eerb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:63d4a$414065ad$d1cc796f$2552@snip.allthenewsg roups.com...
> >
> > Really now Paul...? I found great amusement after reading your amazing
> > reply : )
> >
> > (You wouldn't happen to be a devotee of the Church of $cientology
> > would you..? Indeed, I have noticed an almost cult-like following
> > among some Subaru/FHI owners. They remind me alot of
> > the Unification Church zombies and the $cientologists with their tables
> > on the sidewalks in the city trying to fetch 'engrams' and $$$ from abject
> > suckers and fooles, much like the average salespeople at your local
> > Subaru Dealership.....grin hint-hint know-what-I-mean, nudge-nudge..)
> >
> > Paul, you show me verifiable proof of a Subaru, and I mean ANY
> > Subaru or Fuji Heavy Industries product, that has 200K (or more??!)
> > on the Odometer, that is not falling apart at the seams and blowing MUCH
> > blue oil smoke and barely passes USA new emissions testing, and I'll buy
> > you a bag of NYC's finest Brooklyn baked bagles and have them
> > sent to you via Fed-Ex.
> >
> > Subaru cars are designed very badly from a classic
> > mechanical engineering standpoint. FHI copied the
> > classic Volkswagen Beetle engine, made it much
> > bigger and raised the cylinder compression to a very
> > high level. As a result their engines run *very hot* and
> > is well known by almost every mechanic and service
> > shop that a Subaru/FHI car which has 50K miles or
> > more on it will be a "driveway dripper". (taking into
> > consideration the poor Japanese-made gaskets that
> > they use which are made of pressed paperboard and
> > cheap recycled polymers) Bottom line is that every
> > H-O'ppsd Subie Engine is a ticking time bomb on the
> > verge of either exploding in an oil-shower bath when
> > the gaskets finally blowout, or pistons seize into place
> > like when a NFL Linebacker slides across dry astroturf
> > to a halt with friction burns on his a--!

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