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Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt

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Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 12, 2015 11:22AM

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It's another Craigslist find for Open Light people in the Midwest: 1999, 4dr, auto; $700 obo.

http://bloomington.craigslist.org/cto/5100456460.html

I have no connection to owner and don't know any more than what the ad says - expect the lady says it's a nice car with no other problems.

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 16, 2015 12:19PM

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$50 says you can push your hand through the strut towers if they aren't well-ventilated already.

By the time you can see the rust on the outside, the body's already done!

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 16, 2015 12:35PM

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$50 says you can push your hand through the strut towers if they aren't well-ventilated already.

By the time you can see the rust on the outside, the body's already done!

I thought Subies were according to every owner "built like tanks"...

I thought they were shockingly thin stampings myself but as we all know too well, I don't know shit..

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 18, 2015 07:23PM

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Oh they ARE built like tanks. They drive just fine right up until the point where (in my personal experience) the rust is so bad that you can remove the seatbelts by tugging gently. Subaru did a good job of engineering product that fails gracefully.

Now if they could figure out what rust protection is...

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 18, 2015 07:43PM

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who da fawk is callin subies rust buckets?

this pic defies all such assumpt-chins.

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 18, 2015 11:24PM

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Rust to me is a slight gold tinge on a few bolts.
Subaru cars in the early 90s were almost exclusively sold in non-rusty climates so it wasn't an issue until people started dragging them from heavenly places like Colorado into hell.

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 09:43AM

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Rust to me is a slight gold tinge on a few bolts.
Subaru cars in the early 90s were almost exclusively sold in non-rusty climates so it wasn't an issue until people started dragging them from heavenly places like Colorado into hell.

Grant seems to have forgotten about the other bastion of Scoobies, New England. I haven't seen a Loyale on the road in months, and there are maybe three survivors from the 1970s left...

My 03 Legacy wagon has one fender and two quarter panels partially reconstructed from bondo, crappy sheet metal from Tractor Supply, and horrific welding...207,000 miles of bliss.

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 11:37AM

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Grant seems to have forgotten about the other bastion of Scoobies, New England. I haven't seen a Loyale on the road in months, and there are maybe three survivors from the 1970s left...

You haven't seen one in MONTHS? In 2015?

That is a bit like saying "I am so poor I had to lay off two of my butlers."

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 04:15PM

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In NH these things were more popular than Camrys...

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 05:23PM

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Yeah, but even if all 17 people that live in new hampshire had a Subaru... smiling smiley

I can say that, I'm from Wyoming. smiling smiley

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 08:43PM

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Yeah, but even if all 17 people that live in new hampshire had a Subaru...
I can say that, I'm from Wyoming.

I thought Dick Cheney disappeared anybody in Wyoming not driving a pickup truck. Also, Wyoming has fewer people than VERMONT, let alone the overpopulated mess of North Massachusetts.

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Re: Found on Craigslist: '99 Impreza, 2.2, bad timing belt
July 19, 2015 09:10PM

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Yeah, but even if all 17 people that live in new hampshire had a Subaru...
I can say that, I'm from Wyoming.

I thought Dick Cheney disappeared anybody in Wyoming not driving a pickup truck. Also, Wyoming has fewer people than VERMONT, let alone the overpopulated mess of North Massachusetts.

Come on its only 2.15 times as many in Nude Hampster as Why-o-me-ing..

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