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#440 of 8644 How to remove fake wood panel from dash? by doneko

Jun 15, 2002 (9:51 am)

I purchased a 1999 Subaru Legacy Outback Limited couple of months ago. The
previous owner poured some coke in the dashboard, so all the climate control
keys are sticky. I'd like to remove them as well as the CD player in order
to clean them. This is how far I got (I removed the cup holders):

http://www.qqriq.com/Pics/subaru_radio.jpg

How should I remove the fake wood panels? I tried to force them but I'm
afraid to break them.

Thanks for your help!

#441 of 8644 Subaru Legacy 2000 stalls at traffic lights in summer by anechayev

Jun 16, 2002 (2:26 pm)

Hello,
 
I was wondering if anybody can help me with my problem. I'm driving 2000 Subary Legacy, and during hot days it sometimes stalls when at traffic lights or whenever I have to stop for longer than couple seconds. Unfortunately it doesn't happen all the time, but I did notice that it almost never happens when it is not hot outside. It happens both when conditioner is on and off (in this case the fan is still on)
 
I was watching tachometer, and what happens is that usually the compressor kicks in when it falls down to about 500 RPM, so usually it is above this mark. However, for some reason it doesn't always happen, and when it doesn't, it falls to 500 RPM, the car starts shaking for couple seconds and stalls after that.
 
Since it is still on warranty, I went to the local dealer but he could not reproduce the problem and had no idea about what's going on.
 
Maybe somebody can give me a hint of possible causes? Or maybe somebody had such problem and was able to fix it?
 
 Thanks, Andrew

#442 of 8644 Andrew, by jfl

Jun 16, 2002 (4:26 pm)

idle speed for 2000 Legacy is 650 rpm MT and 700 rpm AT in park/neutral. Is it dropping down to 500 rpm from this range?
 
The idle rpms increase on my 2000 Legacy when the AC is switched on. I believe this is intentional to handle the higher load.
 
With the high fuel pressure of injected engines, it wouldn't be vapor lock would it?

#443 of 8644 alignment and tire wear by cptplt

Jun 16, 2002 (8:22 pm)

I've always noted that the camber on the rear wheels of my 98 Legacy GT is very pronounced and I had it checked at 30K as I had noticed my winter tires wearing out quicker on the inner side. They were supposedly in spec. I just noticed this weekend that my summer tires were bald on the inner side on the rear tires (65K now).They were feathered but nowhere near bald just 3months ago when I changed over from the winter ones!
 
Real pain, I had only gotten them in the summer of 00. They have half decent tread on the outer side (at least 6/32) and the front ones are a little better still though they are feathered somewhat too.
 
Anyway, quick trip to NTB today and they adjust the alignment, the camber was again "within spec" but the toe was way out on the rears. Why would this make the the whole inner tread go bald?? Is it just accentuating the marked camber effect?
 
Ended up swapping my 16in GT wheels/tires for the stock 16 in WRX ones I had taken off when I upgraded to 17 in wheels on the WRX. Those wheels look much, much nicer on the Legacy than on the WRX! I will use the GT wheels as my winter wheels on the WRX now! Does anyone know if there are rubbing problems with putting 215/55/16 tires on a 98 Legacy? I would like to change to that size when I ditch the RE92s.
 
I had thought that non directional tires by being able to go on either side of the car would have less problems with this feathering but it really makes no differnce unless you remount them and turn them over on the wheel! Duh!

#444 of 8644 Rear alignment by idahodoug

Jun 16, 2002 (10:29 pm)

If you can SEE that the rears are leaning in at the top (positive camber), then I'd say they are not within spec. Personally, I would ask to see the figures they got when they checked the rear alignment and I'd hope they weren't just eyeballing it. I say that because few dealers have an alignment machine. If they don't find one that does and ask for the printout - all alignment machines can do a printout and I've never had one done without a tech handing me the sheet.
 
Also, if the toe can be adjusted, but the camber cannot (likely, BTW), I'd be curious if you were not just tossed a red herring.
 
As to toe out wearing the tires like that - yes it will do precisely that. In the absence of your camber comment I'd have accepted this explanation, but given that you can see the rear tires are leaned in at the top (vehicle unladen, of course) I'd check a bit further.
 
This must have wreaked havoc with your handling, and especially winter traction, BTW. With the rears fighting each other they were constantly slipping a bit and never really giving you full traction. Wonder how long it's been going on?
 
Rgds,
IdahoDoug

#445 of 8644 That's Negative Camber by paisan

Jun 17, 2002 (7:30 am)

Doug, I think in:
 
If you can SEE that the rears are leaning in at the top (positive camber), then I'd say they are not within spec you meant to say negative camber. Negative camber will be tiled in at the tops and wear the inner shoulder of the tires. My XT6 has positive camber in the front and is sticking out on the tops and wears my outter shoulder.
 
-mike

#446 of 8644 Camber by idahodoug

Jun 17, 2002 (12:18 pm)

Mike - you're correct, pardon the confusion. I often do the same with wheel offset (pos, neg, etc). Fortunately for all, I've mastered positive and negative on the battery......
 
IdahoDoug

#447 of 8644 No problem by paisan

Jun 17, 2002 (1:06 pm)

I wouldn't know the difference except I'm fighting with my XT6 Postive camber problems currently!
 
-mike

#448 of 8644 Paisan by idahodoug

Jun 17, 2002 (3:17 pm)

Mike,
 
How / when did the camber problems start?
 
IdahoDoug

#449 of 8644 Camber problems by paisan

Jun 17, 2002 (3:19 pm)

It's cause I'm running 2.5RS front struts on the XT6. I need to get some camber bolts for it so I can adjust the camber. The XT6 originally had an air suspension w/o any camber adjustments on it. I just need to find the correct diameter camber bolt for it.
 
-mike

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