Kiwiflyboy

End of an era for the Fat Panda. Today took the shell down to the scrap yard and said good bye. Has been ownership with my brother and then myself for close to 11 years since it first arrived in NZ. From 30000km up to 189000km all done on the same engine and was still going strong when removed. Was bloody good fun doing it up and hitting the track with some good surprises from others out there when they got passed or couldn’t shake it off their bumper. A we break now while I move around nz for 12 months and then time for another project.

Pulled the heart of the forester out today.

Started to strip the forester of all the add on parts to sell them off. 2 1/2 Years from a almost stock forester SF5 to something hat gave a lot of people a good surprise on the track. Time for the next project. If any wants or needs any parts yell out I’ll list them all up in the Coming weeks

Can you get integrated ones like what the new outback’s have? We have them and thing they are excellent. The bars fold away when not in use. The rear bar has two positions to choose from from almost the very back to around the back passenger door. They are thinner but every mounting unit I had already has a set of brackets that fit perfectly. Have used the Thule bike racks, roof box SUP carrier ski racks and no complaints at all. People overseas really load these things up too when they go camping. Personally if I had my own outback I’d go for this set up over have other racks now

So someone local managed to pay and grab it yesterday so it’s all gone. Thanks@subru and@inked for the offers.

Yeah will be based out of wellington for some time from about may/june. Ill send you a PM once I can confirm it Yeah he said it was fitted to his BE legacy though so I'm just getting the length checked as I'm not sure it will fit the BR Legacy I have yet. Otherwise bloody good deal

Hey welly people! Anyone be able to pick up a brace and hold on to it for about 1-2 months or ship it to Christchurch for me? I’m moving up in may so can get it then otherwise I can pay for you to send it south if you don’t want to hold on to it. The brace is in upper hurt. Let me know and looking forward to meeting up with some welly Subaru people in the coming months.

No excuse for her she has a 2017 outback for a daily which is just wide she just mounts the bloody kerbs in that thing though [emoji849]

Not me but my wife. Another reason I won’t be going back to “stretched” look. No mag protection. Wife said she was scared to come home to tell me

De-badged the back of the legacy and then gave it a full cut and polish and wax. Also cleaned up the headlights. Was going to go out and get some photos today but it’s bloody raining now!

Haha not thinking about the value thinking about a new car and always wanted one new and untouched. I’m pretty convinced they will still bring them in for at least the next few years though.

might be time for me to buy a new one then??? hmmmm

That’s just for the UK market though. They will continue to sell in other markets were the demand is still there.

Tempted to make the trip up from chch for this. Anyone else from the South Island planning to go

Manually engage at the lights in the BR or traffic jam and then just power away when needed. The outback is awesome In traffic jam just let it deal with the traffic and it stops and starts as needed

Ah na that’s different again. You can engage the park brake anytime when stopped and it will hold position in drive till you add power. If you select hill assist will do it anytime that hill assist has been left on I also think it needs some sort of incline as well for that one to work. Wife’s new outback has stop start and eye sight cruise control. When cruise control is selected and it brings car tot a stop it engages the park brake until power is added or up is selected to tell cruise control to continue tracking the vehicle in front.

This then leads into the newer cars with stop start. Feature good at the lights of you feeling super lazy and can’t be assed holding foot on brake pedal

I have one of the rapid dry towels, doesn't do the whole legacy or outback cars are just a bit too big. still bloody good though to use and get most of the car and then I finish with the camois

They stopped legacy wagon and then brought out the Levorg. So now only big wagon is outback. Sports wagon is levorg

Pretty sure it’s a tow right branded. I got the company I brought the car from to get it done as part of me buying it

Never got the hate like the look better than my old BH wagon. They are popular in states and a few mods and they look good. Go bloody sweet too for a wagon.

My removable one on the BR9 was $450

This was my issue with my old TD-04 on the forester when they tried to up the boost. IAT went sky high and just turned into a hair dryer!

Yeah it wont let you drop to 2nd at 100 will beep at you if you try to select it, that's if you have the sport shift anyway. pretty much I just drove it in auto and when I wanted to pass and keep it a short pass use sport shift as above otherwise if speed was above 80 I just had to wait for the transfer. People always bitch about the twin, and so on but I found once I new where the primary and secondary worked it was great. The worst thing was if you were trying to go full power and then you came off throttle while in high RPM so the secondary was boosting it would take awhile for the switch over to go back to the primary. Could have just been my car but then was like no boost for a good we period while it sorted its self out

With the auto if I needed a quick pass and was doing 80 or under I would pop it in second with the we steering wheel shifter and then it would pretty much give me full boost when I went to pass as 80kmphr is about 4500 rpm in second. Then change third and lose your license if you don’t back off lol