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New Owner
Much to my wife's dismay, I'm the proud new owner of a black '96 LSI (I won an eBay auction and then told her about it hehe). I read some good tips from this site (i.e. using Scratch-x on the headlights). The car is in very nice condition (69k miles), but I had a couple of questions:
The wholesaler I bought it from did not have any remote keypads for unlocking the car. I'm assuming the LSI came with that standard. Do you think I can order a keypad and it would work? Also, the car has different tires on the front-end than on the rear. I am going to buy new tires (any suggestions for reasonable $$$?). Is it damaging for me to drive it this way for like a week? Everything seems to work fine and everything is very quiet. The brakes make no noises. Any gotchas I should take a look at that might not be obvious driving it? Oh yeah, did this car belong to anyone here by chance? Craig |
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Crig,
You can get a new keypad from Subaru. They are not too expensive. As for the wheels, I'd always put all 4 at the same time. That's just me. I don't want to pay money to the tranny gods. The car does look good. You do know that your back wheel is on backwards... right? Good luck and congrets and welcome Lwin
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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Congratulations, Craig and welcome to the network.
When I bought my SVX 2 years ago, I replaced all four with Yokohama AVS dB tires for $125 each. They're great so far. I didn't know about this site before so I couldn't ask anybody. I researched and found this other site: http://www.subarusvx.com/
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I recommend Bridgestone RE910's (Less than $100 ea.) The originals are RE95's which are quiet and lasted 70k on mine. The 910's I now have look to have half their mileage left after 60K.
On a side note: Is there some kind of law that says, "No SVX's may be bought or sold on Ebay unless at least two wheels are on the wrong side."?
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hey..... i got mine off ebay.... and i don't think my wheels are backwards.... at least lwin didn't point it out when he saw my car last weekend... hmm... maybe i should go check...
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Ebay SVXs...
Actually, I think it is a law that all Ebay SVXs must have at least one set of wheels on backwards...I got mine from a dealer on Ebay this summer and the fronts where one backwards of course.
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'04 WRX SW - WR Blue - 26000 mi '95 SVX L-AWD - Green - 143k '92 SVX Ls-L - Dark Teal - 67300 mi '91 Miata - a lot-o-miles '88 CRX Si/B16 not-so-SiR '73 Datsun 240Z |
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Trust me they are fine. I'd point it out otherwise.
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Lwin M. Maung (Member # 147) Current SVX: • NONE Previous SVXes: •1994 LE Barcelona Red 107k • 1992 LS-L Pearl White 143k • 1994 LSi Bordeaux Pearl 220k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 184k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 145k • 1992 LS-L Liquid Silver 102k • 1992 LS-L Ebony Pearl 123k Other current cars:•2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee Black If at first you don't succeed, CHEAT!
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thanks lwin.... but i guess that makes my svx... not abiding to ebay svx selling 'laws' ohh... i feel like a bad boy now hahahaha
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