What have you done to your car today?

Installed some subaxtreme tow hooks on the front. Look a lot better than the oem tie down points, and a lot sturdier.

Should eliminate the need to dive into a bog hole to attach d shackles at the worst possible moment.
 
Gidday D

Dulagarl said:
Installed some subaxtreme tow hooks on the front. Look a lot better than the oem tie down points, and a lot sturdier.

Should eliminate the need to dive into a bog hole to attach d shackles at the worst possible moment.
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Terrific :cool:.
How well attached are they?
And how well attached are the OEM tie-down points?

Piccies?
 
Ratbag said:
Terrific :cool:.
How well attached are they?
And how well attached are the OEM tie-down points?

Piccies?
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They are a great bit of kit, I will be getting them too when I order my front bar.

They bolt on in the same spot as the OEM ones but are stronger and spread the load better. So atleast you won't rip them off as easily (done that :shake:).

Some pics would be great mate :iconwink:
 
Subaxtreme tow hooks.
Only issue with them is you can't use a bow shackel with them and a snatch/distribution strap would fall off as they are open ended..
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Gidday Carl

carljwnc said:
You can only get them for the SF Foresters, SG they started welding them on.
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When I was trying to get a look at mine, I thought they were bolted on, not welded. Will check tomorrow.

Maybe the US ones are different?

Looking at the photo Taza posted, I reckon that would take a fair amount of force.
If it were solely designed as a tie-down point, I would not expect to see a triangular plate with 3 bolts (i.e. designed to have torsional forces applied to it).
I would expect to see a vertical strip with two bolts (i.e. just meant to have vertical force applied to it).
Three bolts that size torqued to about 40 ft/lbs would have to stand around 3 x 4000 lbs force, IIRC. Should rip the front of the car off before you broke them, specially when using a load distribution strap. Just a thought; I'm not an engineer :iconwink:.
 
LOL :lol:!

Rally said:
I could take a photo but I am yet to see a photo that shows how well a light works. For one, you lose depth of field. For another, what the camera picks up as poor light can still be reasonably good light, because it has to react to the really bright light in the foreground. I think it is a case of good design and the sheer size of them that makes such a good light. Interesting though that they are not the biggest light they make. The big ones must indeed be impressive.
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I meant a piccy of the lights themselves fitted to your car in your journal thread ... :iconwink:

I agree. Taking photos of lights at night is hard. Full manual mode, with MF as well. Still iffy though ... :poke:
 
Ratbag said:
When I was trying to get a look at mine, I thought they were bolted on, not welded. Will check tomorrow.
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I had a look when things had dried out a bit ...

My tie-down points are definitely welded on.
 
Ratbag said:
I had a look when things had dried out a bit ...

My tie-down points are definitely welded on.
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I have wondered about the practicality of manufacturing proper tow points to bolt on to the front.
Perhaps bent into a square section to go over the front reinforcement bar with a high tensile bolt all the way through both?

Would obviously be different for each rear / model.
 
Gidday Barry

Barry said:
I have wondered about the practicality of manufacturing proper tow points to bolt on to the front.
Perhaps bent into a square section to go over the front reinforcement bar with a high tensile bolt all the way through both?

Would obviously be different for each rear / model.
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IF (a big if ... ) one could get at the back of the existing tie-down point, it might be possible to use it as a backing plate for bolting on a "real" recovery point on the opposite side of the current attachment point.

Maybe the way to go is to carefully examine how Subaru have reinforced the 2011 etc Foresters & OBs for the screw-in recovery bolt. It might give some clues as to how to strengthen that point on each side of our older vehicles? But then again, it is flaming easy to weld some extra reinforcing in during manufacture, and a heck of a lot harder to retro-fit ...
 
taza said:
Subaxtreme tow hooks.
Only issue with them is you can't use a bow shackel with them and a snatch/distribution strap would fall off as they are open ended..
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If that were true they would be useless. They are open ended but pretty carefully designed IMO to ensure that a tree protector / load distribution strap will NOT fall off.

The opening is so narrow that a strap would only fall off if its narrowest profile coincided with the opening. Very remote possibility.
 
Dulagarl said:
If that were true they would be useless. They are open ended but pretty carefully designed IMO to ensure that a tree protector / load distribution strap will NOT fall off.

The opening is so narrow that a strap would only fall off if its narrowest profile coincided with the opening. Very remote possibility.
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Ok, well thats good to hear. I haven't seen them in person only in pictures. Thanks for clarifying though :)
 
Dulagarl, they do look pretty solid! Much easier to attach too as well, plus no shackles means less to go wrong and less flying shrapnel :)

Rally, I prefer spread over spot usually but it sounds like yours have a little spread as well...perfect. Are they HID? Looks good :monkeydance:

Tazaz, I'll be doing custom tow points when I do my bullbar, just havent figured out yet exactly how...
 
No, they are not HID. The real test will be out in the sticks, but so far very happy
 
Bar 'n grill- sounds like a good combination
 
Bridgestone had a special on tyres that finishes soon. Buy 3 and get the 4th one free. So off I went and got the last set of Bridgestone RE002 Potenza's in 215/60 16. Now I just need to wait for the Toyo's to wear out and get them fitted. For now I have them stored in a nice cool, dark place where they should not deteriorate too quickly. I have noticed that the Toyo's are losing their grip as they age. Not so much because of the tread wearing away, for the road is more damp than wet. I suspect the rubber is ageing. The RE002's are the same type of tyre I have on the WRX and they work reasonably well on that car. And no, I am not interested in off road tyres- not until I do an outback trip anyway.
 
Had some moron in Parramatta think that my car was a good place to lean against! He then thought I was overreacting by asking him to get off the car. :madred::yell::madred::yell:
 
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