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It looks like I will have to put my old friend to sleep. I noticed last week that someone had done a hit and run on the front bumper. They bent the bottom of the bumper with what looked like a shopping cart. I pulled it out and other then a few deep scratches I thought it was fine, that is until it over heated. After having it towed in and inspected from underneath, the perpetrator had hit it so hard that they had bent the radiator support so that the radiator was pushed almost into the engine and had actually bent the frame where the support attaches. Major damage, not to mention the loss of coolant and pegging the temp gauge on the interstate. $2000.00 damage or $1000 if I do much of the work myself and that’s if there is no damage to the engine. So thanks to Obama, my baby, my very special car is a klunker. As an incentive to boost our failing economy it qualifies for a $3500 trade in value, plus I pay taxes on the new cars price after trade in, not original price and I get to deduct those taxes on my end of year taxes. I test-drove a 2008 Impreza (red like the SVX) 2009 Legacy and the new 2010 Legacy with the 6-speed tranny. All nice cars especially the new design 2010, but all paled in comparison to the SVX. Even the 2009 Legacy with the 6 cylinders, variable suspension and every accessory available. None of them rode, handled, accelerated, was as quiet or simply drove as well as the SVX. Not even close. Nor will I have the pleasure of pulling up to a WRX and give them a run for their money with the old dog Subaru anymore. If I do this I will miss my old friend very much. It was just getting ready to turn over to its 100,000-mile birthday too. I will never own another car like this one. I would regularly get into it just run a quick errand, look around while I was driving and remark to myself " I really like this car". The demoralizing part of the story is that because it is classified as a gas guzzling klunker ( I did get 30 mpg on the interstate often) they must destroy the engine by pouring liquid glass into it while it runs and seizing the engine. Hence putting it to sleep. Its hard to imagine the roads around here not having this car on them, but times are tough and I have to consider the economic options and the opportunity to move on. If I do decide and it will be next week, it will be a sad day.

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This thread is just chock-full-o-fail. Thank goodness for Obama and this Clunker B/S

Tom

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Yes, acording to Noboma, the SVX qualifies as a Clunker. :mad:

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If the car were Old Yeller, the OP would be Arliss :lol:

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I have contacted the local car crusher, just outside of Cumberland MD, and if he gets an SVX on the cash for clunkers program :mad: he says that he will contact me before he crushes it so that I might save the engine/transmission/etc.
Of course I will have to9 compensate him finantually, but at least they don't have to completely die!
Please ask the dealer that you aredealing with and ask him where it's going.
Tom
304-738-0012
301-707-2837
301-707-3437

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It is illegal to remove any part of the drivetrain from a clunker. Sucks but true

Tom

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This program is evil, every way around.

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Since when has that ever stopped anyone :lol:

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subscribe! this should get funny in here :lol:

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http://www.cars.gov/faq#category-14

..."The entity crushing or shredding the vehicles in this manner will be allowed to sell some parts of the vehicle prior to crushing or shredding it, but these parts cannot include the engine or the drive train."

so steal them!! :cool:

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Any true SVX enthusiast who claims to love their car would not send one of these cars to its iminent death, regardless of incentive.


If you love your SVX, FIX IT!

I have a feeling we will see many similar threads, as most people cannot justify owning and maintaining them properly.


Remember, nobody is prying the keys from your fingers, it is your choice to send it to the crusher. I am already fed up with the members on this board complaining about this program. If you dont like it, you don't have to send your car to it's death!

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Go on craigslist find a $50 car and trade that in. If you love your SVX set it free. Don't kill it.

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From what I was told, the gov't included the requirement that the car has to be in your ownership for at least 2 years, for that very reason.

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http://www.cars.gov/faq#category-16

"be continuously insured and registered to the same owner for the full year preceding the trade-in "

check the facts

trade in cheap car to dealer, not cfc

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Yeah year, two, whichever.... theyre trying to keep people from buying junk cars to do this with and tap out the funds before it serves its intended purpose. I think giving up the SVX for this plan is crap...... especially since regardless of what the EPA thinks, mine gets nearly 30mpg on the freeway.