my advise is keep it. There's another channel with Subaru mechanic that considers this year model Subaru to be the best ever made. He also has an LLBean edition with between 200,000 to 300,000 miles. Great looking car.
I have subscribed to you since I think.. 2011? I had a beetle back then and you always had great REAL reviews of the cars I love. Volvo, VW and Subarus. Great to see you going from home reviews to a successful career.
Hey bud. Very cool seeing a fellow Richmonder doing walk-arounds and reviews. I noticed a 7-month period of no activity. Hope you'll be able to get back into it more, with both used and new cars.
Great ride, Jake. I feel the same way about my mom's 2005 Forester. Not the best car out there, but if she ever gets something else, I wouldn't mind taking it off her hands.
I have a 2002 Outback 2.5 base it’s awesome I love it only 175k and it has that same great sounding stereo it’s very good for Virginia weather when we have bad ones, used to have a 2001 Outback LL Bean but the trans died and I sold it last year
I have a 2004 slime green 2.5 Outback with 170000 kl so around 110000 miles lots of valve slap , sounds like a diesel but no oil use ,owned 5 years never let me down .
I had this edition in black for a few years. I loved it but it was pretty rusty when I bought it, so it didn't last long before it wouldn't take a sticker. I bought a Crosstrek new in 2017 and it's been good to me, but I miss the old designs. 😢
Mine wouldn't sticker if I took it to a place that does close inspections. There is always a smaller mechanic around that will literally just walk around it and check the lights. My guy doesn't even lift it up and look underneath. If he did he'd fail me for the rusted out parts under the rear wheels. But my mechanic that works on it agrees that even with those holes in the unibody it's still plenty solid. He jacked it up to like a 40 deg angle and swapped out a bad CV joint for me and the bottom didn't fall out or anything haha. It runs well.
@@UltimateDorito OMG I was so grateful that I found him. I had given it up for scrap, until I called the owner of the dealership that sold it to me and he was nice enough to stop by and look at it, because for some reason he had a hard time believing the tranny went. He said they usually last 300K. But he got in and immediately confirmed my own diagnosis. I then pointed out the rust, which was my fault for not pushing on the bottom a little to check for rot and all before I bought it. That's when he told me that it was still solid and I just needed to take it to the right place to get it inspected. Then he gave me the best advice and told me the name of this mechanic, gave me his phone number, and where he works from. Saved me man. It also was critical that I received a $4000 backpay check from a UC claim that was stalled since early 2021. The check literally came the day the tranny blew and I shit you not. Took them 1.7 years to make a decision on that claim. If I hadn't received that check, I simply wouldn't have had the money to fix it at all.