I think GST and LIC do the service for like $6 or 700.

You can always do parts of it as you can.

Like the thermostat and thermo gasket. You can get the cooling package from Crucial pretty cheap.

The water pump, gasket and timing belt should be done at once since the belt comes off for the water pump change. Check the belt... see how it looks. Pull on it. See if it's slack.

Coolant flush and all that you can do on your own and the hoses aren't that bad. I did all that myself and I'm a douche.

I paid like $100 to have all my other belts changed so maybe jsut piece it out. You know.

Do what you can on your own and have a shop do the rest. Or bribe jeff with beer. I'll come help or you're welcome to use my garage and air tools. What few I have. Haaa.

 

Noah was saying its a bit more than $700, but maybe thats because he knows I like the premium fluids. I never thought of doing it in stages, I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the tip!

 

Cant tell the color of the smoke, cuz I'm usually gunning it at night so I just see it in peoples headlights.

 

Try to pick up on it.


Some smoke is normal. Especially if you don't jump on it all that often. Just cleaning stuff out. You getting any oil in the exhaust?

 

yeah premium fluids and a kevlar belt run the cost up. I don't think you need the kevlar personally. But that's just me.

 

Make sure the tensioners get checked, (-probably better yet just replaced as a matter of course) when the timing belt gets changed, I had one fail shortly after the original belt change and now thinking back about things I'm pretty sure that was what precipitated the death of my original motor.

 

148,XXX Motor Blown, Spec C motor in! Hope for another 100,000+ miles

 

i hit 100k a month ago...put 40k on my car since april 2008

 

Hit 100k back in Nov 09 I think it was



and now my new cluster with my new engine


Ive put on just over 1100 miles on the new motor.. got a ways to post pics again in here

 

my car is approaching 128k, rebuilt motor at 117k.

 

I'm at 190K and still going strong. Original Tranny too. Wanna hit at least 200K before I get a new motor.

 

Am around 100,000. Traded my guage cluster for and sti one when i had 80,000 then someone deleted both my trip so I'm pretty sure I'm at 100 when I do some math.

Making 330whp 315 torque. Beating cars that have less than half my mileage

dam whipper snappers

 

i just hit 94,000 on my 05, dreading to hit the 100,000 mark

 

i just passed 164000 in my cgm 05 wrx

i drive to tahoe 2 or 3 times a week (in the winter) and do a lot of traveling, i work for Burton ;-)

update, sold it at 180,000 miles! subarus are TANKS! they keep goin!!

 

^^ooo can you get me a job with them! i need a job. i do design, marketing and love boarding. =)

but also

05 wrx i just hit 100k yesterday.