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Order red tail light tint. Clear tail lights with a dark coloured car isn’t the best look. Leaving the indicator answer reverse clear. though may tint indicator orange later.

fitted blacked out side/wing mirror LED indicators. managed to unclip the covers and fit without removing the glass. need a little double sided tape or blutack to hold the 3mm wide foam weather seal that isn’t included, but pealed off from OEM ones. the plug pins are about 1/4 the width of factory so need to be aligned carefully. One sat perfectly, one was slightly out after clipping back, but that mirror has been bashed about before so maybe not the indicators fault. fits the 2007-2010 Impreza STI. use the part numbers listed and check against your chassis number in partsouq to see if they fit. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002266002926.html $15 plus gst

Inspired by all the great looking Outback's, I had to have a go myself. Full Legacy swap, with struts/springs front and rear, lower front control arm rear stud and backing plate, rear trailing arm spacer, steering knuckle, and removed front and rear subframe spacers. Unfortunately the pick-a-part rear struts are totally shagged, so i'll need to replace those, but otherwise dives and handles a treat. Sitting on TBC Jet 18x8.5 45p with 225x40x18 pilot sport 5's. I would have preferred 35p offset, but got them second hand for a good price, so can't complain.

You prolly found this by now but FSM's online at https://jdmfsm.info/Auto/Japan/Subaru/

They are not wired through the clock spring like newer cars and have L R and common 3 pin plug so can be used on aftermarket ecu 5v or 12v as switches. if you wanted in a stock ecu car you could just wire a resistor to each and to the SI drive inputs. or maybe they will be water spray for intercooler.

Finally got some steering wheel paddle shifters for my STi. Is it auto.. no is it fitted with manual sequential box… no will they control boost levels and other things… yes Sadly realised all my special sockets aren’t here so had to order new trox for the airbag removal. So fitting it is delayed until they arrive. will order the wider plastic steering column cover once they are fitted. It’s 10mm wider per side. hopefully it’ll confuse the crap out of people looking at the car. Manual shifter with paddles too.

So I tried the onboard method. As soon as I send 5v to the board, I can hear some faint whirring and clicking in the cluster but my chip reader doesn't seem to like it. Ultimately I think this just doesn't like being done in-situ. Yet to remove the contact points but I do wanna pop it back in the car to double check it functions as expected and I haven't burnt out the EEPROM somehow. The enamel that covers the legs of the chip is a PITA to take off! I will investigate the PWM signal method as I'm curious (and a PWM generator is $10).

Turns out it is possible to DIY switch ECU's, at least on 2005-2009 leggies. Found an ECU with the same part # on e-bay then was able to code it to the vehicle using the instructions at https://www.subaruoutback.org/threads/immobilizer-reverse-engineering-2005-obxt-probably-other-year-models.501753/