Hey everyone,
So this is my first post in almost six months I think. The last any of you would have heard of my Foz was after tackling the Gentle Annie track in Bunyip, which was a fairly extreme day that resulted in horrendous exhaust damage to the car, the front grill was ripped off and I also sustained some pretty serious panel damage.
Upon returning to the forum I thought a good thread would be to start a journal of both my Forester's recovery from it's injuries and it's coming improvements. I am planning to do a fairly major trip in July/August, so hopefully I can have it running 110% by then.
The exhaust has now been repaired. The diagnosis from the good people at Combined Servicing in Clayton was that the centre section of the exhaust was pretty much non-existent. It was beaten up and corroded and more or less destroyed. So that was replaced, and now the whole street doesn't hear it when I return home. In the lead up to getting the exhaust fixed, the car was also misfiring fairly badly, costing me a lot of power and eventually getting to the point where I had to use low range to take off at steep intersections. Very scary and not in any way safe. So with a new set of spark plugs and one of the leads replaced, the car is now running significantly better but is still not in the shape I would like it to be. I am going to investigate replacing the rest of the leads because it is still misfiring, and it has a bit of a cough when I first turn the key in the ignition. I'm not sure if that's a related problem or if it's something else entirely (does anyone have any ideas)?
It is due for a service in 3000 kilometres so I will get the mechanic to go over the whole car fairly thoroughly then and see what else might need to get fixed up to get it running perfectly. In addition to all this, I am planning to add several mods between now and July, the main ones I have in mind being:
- Roof storage system
- Snorkel
- Rear spare wheel and jerry can holder
- New tyres
- New driving lights
I would also like to consider turbo-charging it at some stage, but I don't know a whole lot about that and how much it costs, so if anyone has any info please shoot it my way.
I'll get some photos of the car up soon too. Anyway, it is good to be back on ORS, and I look forward to getting offroad with some of you again soon, once my Foz is back in shape!
So this is my first post in almost six months I think. The last any of you would have heard of my Foz was after tackling the Gentle Annie track in Bunyip, which was a fairly extreme day that resulted in horrendous exhaust damage to the car, the front grill was ripped off and I also sustained some pretty serious panel damage.
Upon returning to the forum I thought a good thread would be to start a journal of both my Forester's recovery from it's injuries and it's coming improvements. I am planning to do a fairly major trip in July/August, so hopefully I can have it running 110% by then.
The exhaust has now been repaired. The diagnosis from the good people at Combined Servicing in Clayton was that the centre section of the exhaust was pretty much non-existent. It was beaten up and corroded and more or less destroyed. So that was replaced, and now the whole street doesn't hear it when I return home. In the lead up to getting the exhaust fixed, the car was also misfiring fairly badly, costing me a lot of power and eventually getting to the point where I had to use low range to take off at steep intersections. Very scary and not in any way safe. So with a new set of spark plugs and one of the leads replaced, the car is now running significantly better but is still not in the shape I would like it to be. I am going to investigate replacing the rest of the leads because it is still misfiring, and it has a bit of a cough when I first turn the key in the ignition. I'm not sure if that's a related problem or if it's something else entirely (does anyone have any ideas)?
It is due for a service in 3000 kilometres so I will get the mechanic to go over the whole car fairly thoroughly then and see what else might need to get fixed up to get it running perfectly. In addition to all this, I am planning to add several mods between now and July, the main ones I have in mind being:
- Roof storage system
- Snorkel
- Rear spare wheel and jerry can holder
- New tyres
- New driving lights
I would also like to consider turbo-charging it at some stage, but I don't know a whole lot about that and how much it costs, so if anyone has any info please shoot it my way.
I'll get some photos of the car up soon too. Anyway, it is good to be back on ORS, and I look forward to getting offroad with some of you again soon, once my Foz is back in shape!
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