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This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
This morning I smelled coolant when the heater came on. I don't think I'm going to fix this any time soon. I've spent an astonishing 20,000 plus on this car in the 10 years i've owned it and thats doing the labor myself. I honestly don't know how anyone can afford to drive this car if you don't work on it yourself, it's killing me and I get parts at below wholesale and the labor is free!
It is really odd that I would have a heater core failure. The coolant has been changed in this thing every 3 years or 30k with subaru coolant and distilled water. Hopefully this was another vehicle burning some coolant that caused it to smell inside my car....
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
I've never heard of an SVX heater core going bad.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
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Loads of them went bad in Australia. We were trying to set up a group buy a couple of months ago, with less than zero interest from US owners. Maybe you guys got a better heater matrix that did not fail much? Joe
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
That's really interesting. Back when I was parting out SVXs I simply stopped bothering to remove them as people never bought them. I may actually have one or two laying around if anyone wants one. Just pay shipping.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
I've had mine go bad.
Then I put in a used one (do not do that) And it went bad. Put a new one in a few weeks ago. It's really not too hard, just takes time. Alot of nuts and bolts to remove.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
same thing happened to mine about 6 months after i bought it the bottom hose has somehow pushed itself off the bottom of the core and proceeded to empty the rad onto my pass floor i just bypassed it it doesnt get cold enough on the coast to need it here in aust
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
^something just not right about those pictures,
what a mess. if coolant was bloody red, then it would be diffrent, but for green ecto cooler, why do the manufacturers make it so hard to change these, every car, the heater core is a "total" loss. They total cars with wrecks that are half as bad.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
Did you end up with any extra parts? Not too bad? That looks like a nightmare!
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
I did end up with a few extra screws.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
When I did that job about 3 years ago I had the car all apart much like the pictures above. I had been working on the car in the back yard when I quit working for the night and went inside. A neighbour with a nasty sense of humour grabbed a handful of nuts, bolts, washers and screws from his supply of miscellaneous fasteners and put them in my car. I wasn't really impressed.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
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Dude... that deserves a severe ass beating lol.... funny if your on the other side of the fence but I know you were ****ty!
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
Yikes. Those photos suggest that Subaru engineers expected the heater core to outlast the car.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
thats just for a heatercore replacement?
I would just like to say.... I just threw up in my mouth a little.... I dont think I would mind getting into my dash that much if it was for something AWESOME.. (as if a turbo needed that kind of dismantle, or trans swap) But for a heater core? I'd still do it though.
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
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There is something that I do not know....
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Re: This may be the repair on the SVX I'm just not willing to do
Those pictures are scary.
I think I would do one of two things. 1) bypass the heater core and live with it. (turn the car into a summer vehicle) 2) make the decision to get rid of the car... unless I could find someone to replace the core for a decent price. But judging from those pictures, that would be close to impossible.
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