What have you done to your car today?

Bought myself a new subwoofer for the foz as a Chrissy present. Peaks at 1300watt and is a pioneer unit.
Works heaps better than the old one. Much deeper bass and goes harder.
I made quite a few people deff along the freeway yesterday while blasting this :P
[ame="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUf3kVumH4g"]will.i.am - Scream and Shout - ft. Britney Spears (Lyric Video) - YouTube[/ame]
 
Gidday Taza

taza said:
Put my girl in storage yesterday then drove 800km home in dads ute.
God I love turbo diesels!!! Instant overtaking power and can actually pull up hills in 5th gear.unlike my slow arse foz..
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Yeah. Coming back from Brissy last year I was following a bloke in one in the Impreza and had real trouble keeping up - until we came to some "slight" corners, that is ... Even so ... :lol:. Mind, the Impreza was around 100K overdue for new plugs. However, it was still (much) faster than your Foz, by the sound of things. Flat chat was around 160+ km/h, compared with around 176-178 km/h when the plugs (and car) were somewhat newer! :rotfl:.

taza said:
Bought myself a new subwoofer for the foz as a Chrissy present. Peaks at 1300watt and is a pioneer unit.
Works heaps better than the old one. Much deeper bass and goes harder.
I made quite a few people deff along the freeway yesterday while blasting this :P
will.i.am - Scream and Shout - ft. Britney Spears (Lyric Video) - YouTube
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That's great ... But that's DEAF, not "deff" ... just for those whose hearing is shot from too much LOUD MUSIC ... :lol: :rotfl:... You ought to hear the opening of the Carmina Burana by Carl Orff through my 15" Tannoy Monitor Golds - 130 piece symphony orchestra and two full choirs (100+ in each - King's College Cambridge and Wandsworth Boys Choir, IIRC ... ) all going at it hammer and tongs. Either that or the Stones "Paint it Black" will blow a candle out a foot in front of the speaker ... :lildevil:.

In "real horsepower", that's 50W RMS per channel into 16 Ohms, both channels driven, in the power bandwidth of 20-20,000 cycles (flat response: ±0.5%) - total harmonic distortion = 0.028% right channel; 0.029% left channel ... :ebiggrin: :biggrin: :raz:.

Mind, they are a bit hard to fit into a car, each speaker box weighs around 130 pounds, including the 32 pounds each for the speaker itself.

Safe trip home and back, mate.
 
Ratbag said:
Gidday Taza

Yeah. Coming back from Brissy last year I was following a bloke in one in the Impreza and had real trouble keeping up - until we came to some "slight" corners, that is ... Even so ... :lol:. Mind, the Impreza was around 100K overdue for new plugs. However, it was still (much) faster than your Foz, by the sound of things. Flat chat was around 160+ km/h, compared with around 176-178 km/h when the plugs (and car) were somewhat newer! :rotfl:.
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Well my foz just runs like crap. I don't even fill up to a full tank otherwise I cant take off on hills. I reckon it's putting out around 40-50kw atw. It's just time for it go I think.. :iconwink: Bring on the EJ25 :biggrin:

That's great ... But that's DEAF, not "deff" ... just for those whose hearing is shot from too much LOUD MUSIC ... :lol: :rotfl:
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Was on my phone and had only just woke up. Give me a break :lol: :iconwink:

I might have to try some of those songs when I get back in the Foz..

Safe trip home and back, mate.
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Will do, I'm flying back to Perth so it's not too bad.
 
Well I replaced a thermo fan, all the spark plugs and leads on my wife's liberty. After pulling out the leads I am surprised the car was running, the last time I saw plugs that bad was on a car that had been sitting in a paddock for 20 years. The other fan is buggered but I will wait till i get one for the right price.

Plus it turns out my cooling fans have not been working for a couple of months, I only figured it out because the aircon stopped working on idle it became a down the list problem until i figured out the cause of the problem. These are some seriously well designed engines because we live a block away from hell and sweating is just a part of living, plus we have been getting really hot days and the temperature in the car has never risen above normal. Honestly I should have cooked the motor and if I was in anything other than an air cooled motor I reckon I would have.
 
^ Yeah they are strong mate. I had my outside temp guage in the car reading 47 for a good part of the day. My aircon worked but not all that well, what do you expect though. The gas has never been changed in it. But I will say that due to the heat my fuel gauge is rooted. Keeps jumping between full and empty every 30 seconds yet there is half a tank in there...
 
Well, my problem turned out to be a leaking head gasket. I've only had the car for 2 months so it wasn't the news I was looking for. The garage that did the diagnoses quoted $2600 for the job which seemed a bit steep, especially considering i bought the car for $3200. Found a Subaru dealership about an hour away that said they would do it for $1500, which includes a new timing belt and water pump. I'm driving my brothers Expedition now but hopefully I'll be back in the Forester by Friday.
 
^ Bugger!
 
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Found out I broke the little fender thing in front of one of my front wheels on the forester, now it's hanging down by one plastic screw/clip. Will have to put it out of it's misery when I get a chance, and find a new one in the spring. I probably broke the thing foraging ahead through snow/over a snow drift. :P

Today I ordered LED light replacements for most of the cabin lights in my forester. My SO likes to leave the doors open, this is a win/win fix - less battery drain, and swanky LED lights!
 
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Found out I broke the little fender thing in front of one of my front wheels on the forester, now it's hanging down by one plastic screw/clip. Will have to put it out of it's misery when I get a chance, and find a new one in the spring. I probably broke the thing foraging ahead through snow/over a snow drift. :P
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I've had mine removed a long time ago... They can be easily pulled out by sand - in my case - but I'd say snow would have the same effect...

Don't really need them...
 
^ better off without them as there have been cases where these have led to the whole liner being ripped out of the guard.
 
As to what I did to my Forry today, nothing, it's just too hot to do anything to it. I did check that it was still there & hadn't melted away though :lol:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
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