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Old 10-10-2012, 10:24 AM
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Re: OEM struts. Options?

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It's 2007, which happens to be the date code recently found on some of the OEM struts.
Date code's speculation, too. FWIW, if that is a date code, they repop'd the cupholders, too. I dare you to say that they did!

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The newest SVX is now 10 years old, and now many, many of them need new struts.
2013 - 1997 = 16

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This is also the point in time where many SVX owners realize that their car is getting too old to drive every day, and decide to go buy a new car. The last thing these people would do is go buy another Subaru after having to give up theirs because they couldn't buy a simple strut for it.
I bought a pair of Foresters, plan to pick up a new one in three years, and recommend them to people who ask. Looks like the future of the SVX didn't sour me too much!
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