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97 messages, Last post on Apr 21, 2008 at 6:24 AM
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Replying to: jontautic (Apr 06, 2008 2:51 pm) The car will be fine. You will only be as fine as your driving care. I towed a 2000-lb boat for many years, without trailer brakes, never feeling the need for them, or knowing what they were for. Until one rainy day I entered an unexpectedly sharp turn on a rural road at 45 mph, felt it was too fast, and applied the brakes as I entered. The trailer being at an angle to the car in the turn, it began to push the rear and of the car around. I had to get off the brakes and roll around the turn without slowing. After that I was very aware of what side-force on my hitch could do. You will be fine, as long as you don't brake too hard in the middle of a turn or have to do a panic stop. In a panic stop, you expect to not stop as fast as a bare car, but what you don't expect is that with the slightest deviation from a straight line stop, the trailer can push the rear end of the car to the side and then jack knife it, instantly.
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Replying to: aatherton (Apr 07, 2008 10:21 am) This will be our first really long trip and it's a shakedown for an even longer trip to upstate New York in July. I may be able to get the new suspension, battery and its isolator in by then. Good luck on the trailer brakes. Fortunately, our little T  B trailer at least has inertia brakes and they have worked well so far. I'm going out to pick up our trailer from its storage on the 19th and we're leaving on the 23rd. Wish us luck, please. Fred |
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"... I am looking at alternative batteries and such to open up some space." Check out the Odessey PC680 and tray kit from PPI: http://www.paradigmperformance.net/products/forester/batt.html Specs on the Odessey: http://www.odysseybatteries.com/battery/pc680.htm
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Replying to: aatherton (Apr 08, 2008 4:26 am) Did you look at the coil overs for the Forester? Fred
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 08, 2008 6:52 am) -mike
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Replying to: paisan (Apr 08, 2008 7:20 pm) Waaaay upstate in New York. We will be at Clark Point, NY which is on the northeast shore of Lake Ontario. It's north and west of Syracuse about 50 miles. My wife is from Watertown which is another 25-30 miles north. We'll be there from 7/17 to around 7/21 or so then back down to I-80 and on back to Colorado. Where are you? Fred |
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Hey all: Our Forester is having a slight problem with the speed/cruise control. If it's been driven for a while it will start shutting the cruise control off somewhere around 80-85 MPH. It seem to do it more when it's a warm day and will do it often in hilly areas where the speed runs past the set speed on the downhill sections. That's if it's speed is set to just under the point where it regularly cuts out. It started doing it a few months ago and I keep forgetting about it because we don't get out and drive like that very often. Has anyone had this problem? I hate to take it to the dealer because it's one of those things that's practically impossible to demonstrate around here. Fred
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 09, 2008 6:58 pm) Forget that, where do you live? I'm moving there! 
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Replying to: xtop (Apr 09, 2008 6:58 pm) I think the cruise control ceases to work over about 85 mph, by design.
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Replying to: aatherton (Apr 10, 2008 1:41 pm) As far as the speed control ceasing to work above 85, that isn't true. I've used it at over 90MPH for just a couple of miles and it always worked fine until recently. The true problem was that, eventually, the maintainable speed would drop to the point where I couldn't keep up the speed limit. It did that on one trip back from Arizona. It got as low as 65-70 before it improved. On one of the other Forester forums they seem to have isolated the cause as a bad neutral safety switch on the manual transmission models. I will be looking into that as it is supposedly easy to diagnose. You just push the gear lever a bit tighter against its limit stop and the cutting out problem goes away if it is the switch. Isn't the internet great? Some of those forum contributors have found that their speed control will work to up around 95MPH. I hadn't gotten to that extreme, personally. Fred
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