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  1. Thanks for the reply, I think that's the same problem I have. I noticed someone had tried to pull the grill at one time. That seemed to be a big part of the rattle.
  2. I have a 2009 Outback with the Harman Kardon sub in the rear cargo area. I've been searching like crazy on here and subaruoutback.org, but not a lot of detail on the Outback version of the sub, or at least I can't find it. I see a lot for the Legacy rear deck sub. When I bought the car, two door speakers were blown. I replaced them with Subaru OEMs from ebay, they work fine now. The rear sub rattles now like it's blown. Don't know if I did that with a new headunit or if it was blown before. I see a lot of threads on it's 2 ohm, but then some say 4 ohm, I see some sizes and mounting depths, but they seem to be for Legacy rear deck. Anyone have any Outback specific info before I tear into this? I guess it could be interior panel rattling, but it sounds like the sub itself.
  3. I've been through the search on this awesome thread many times and come up empty. Has anyone done a 3d print blanking plate for the ash tray? I'd like to run the stereos USB done there, as well as a small voltage LED.
  4. Thanks Max, I'm going to run a smoke test on it. I also ordered the bottom grounds and bolts to redo those as well.
  5. So I understood*this CEL wrong, at WOT it doesn't throw*a light, but at about 70-80%*pedal and kickdown it will throw a light for cyl 1 and 2 misfire.* Go easier (even with kickdown) or go WOT and it doesn't, so weird. And it's very intermittent, I went around beating on the car yesterday while logging, and it wouldn't throw the CEL no matter how much I tried.
  6. The place I got it from did all new plug wires and coil by the looks of them. Seeing the history and seeing the engine was replaced, to no avail, has me going down slightly different paths than I normally would. It also has been injector cleanered to death from looking at the Carfax. I've been pulling all the grounds, steel wooling them and hooking them back up with dielectric grease. So far since doing that I can't recreate the CEL. Not confident that fixed it, but cautiously optimistic. Would be crazy if they replaced the engine and ultimately sh*tcanned the car over a bad ground.
  7. I thought about pulling them and having them cleaned. I'm starting with cleaning up all the grounds.
  8. Ugh, the tire shop inflated the tires to 40psi. Let out some air and it's driving perfect again.
  9. Everyone likes a good mystery to solve right? Picked up a nice 2009 Outback 2.5i with 95k miles for a great price. Drives smooth, in great shape, the only problem, it throws a CEL for cylinder 1 and 2 misfire, but only at WOT near redline. It's also a pending fault, so the CEL doesn't stay current once out of WOT. The rest of the time it drives normal and smooth. Luckily I don't take the NA to redline much. Incidental findings: The TPS sensor reads 14% at pedal up, and only 78% at WOT. It's the drive by wire throttle body and not adjustable that I know of. Talking to the previous owner and looking at the Carfax, things seem to start to piece together. 7/2008 - 12/2011 - Only normal stuff reported, oil changes, title, etc 12/21/2011 - 26,000 miles - Minor accident to driver side fender 1/21/2012 - 26,248 miles - Fails emissions (pretty low mileage to fail emissions, a rational person could reason the CEL problem started here with the accident, although in Colorado you can fail emissions pretty easily for dumb stuff) 1/25/2012 - Passes emissions 2/29/2012 - Car sold to owner #2 6/2/2015 - 52,448 miles - Fuel injection system flushed at Grease Monkey 6/9/2015 - 52,630 miles - Induction system service at Subaru dealer (seems odd to do two fuel system services within a week, but then no more records for 4.5 years) 2/17/2020 - 82,952 miles - Car sold to owner #3, who purchases extended warranty 3/20/2020 - 83,467 miles - Engine is replaced for cylinder misfire, does not fix the issue (not listed in the Carfax, found this out by calling around). Also don't know if this was a shortblock with the rest swapped, or a full long block. 1/17/2021 - 95,000 miles - Owner CarMax's car with "major engine issues" It seems this has been fuel system cleaner'ed to death, plus they replaced the engine with no change (crazy!). So what's left? 1) Voltage? Reading 13.8 with the car running, haven't looked at WOT. 2) Bad grounds? - I've pulled each and cleaned them, I'm going to replace the bottom two. 3) Fuel pressure? - haven't checked 4) Coil? - Have a spare I'll try, but it looks like someone may have put a new one on from how shiny the brass standoffs are. I can always check resistance on it. Has new plug wires and plugs. 5) MAF - I did pull it and clean it. 6) Damage to the bundle of wires in the driver's side fender during the accident? - I would think I'd see it more than just at WOT, but this seems plausible? I guess I could also hook it up to a datalogger and log a pull when the CEL happens. I'll have to see if the cable for my '05 LGT works for this car too with the CANbus. What am I missing?
  10. Hmm, so I brought it to a local Subaru shop who looked at it for free. They said tie rods are fine, front struts look good, ball joints are good, rear struts were replaced with cheapies, and wheel bearings are ok (starting to go like all Subarus, but very mild). They drove it and said they couldn't feel anything out of the ordinary. Beyond my imagination, the only thing I can think of is the front struts look 95k original. They probably feel and look mostly fine, but odds are they are allowing excess spring rebound and maybe that's what I'm feeling over bigger bumps?.
  11. Seems like this is probably the inner tie rod. I locked the steering wheel and rocked the tires, the driver's side has a lot of movement. I could be doing it wrong.
  12. I have an '09 Outback. Drive pretty smooth, but hitting a certain bump just right it has an unsettling steering wheel wobble. I looked underneath and the ball joints all look "OK". I jacked the car up and shook the wheel, up and down it's solid, but side to side both front wheels rock back and forth. However it doesn't seem to be the tie rod ball joint, it's actually moving all the way back to the steering rack, like I'm wiggling the steering wheel. I called a Subaru repair place and he said it was probably the tie rod on the rack side? Sorry, paraphrasing there. I also noticed the driver's side front tire has subtle wear on the inside of the tire, the camber looks ok. I checked my LGT and I can't move the wheel at all when one is up and the other is down, of course the tire height is a lot less, so no sidewall flex. What should I look at to narrow this down?
  13. How long do stock coil packs last? I have 154k, modded for well over 100k of that, bigger turbo, e85. Just had a terrifying situation where the coil pack cutout at WOT, put me in limp mode and gave a cylinder 4 misfire. When I pulled the coil pack, cylinder 1's coil pack bolt was actually starting to back out and I could rock the coil pack around. 90% sure that was my problem, but I swapped 1 and 4 anyway, tightened them down and started back up. Running perfect again, but got me wondering how long coil packs last and if I should swap them all out as preventative maintenance. It looks like it would be about $320 for the set.
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