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13fido13

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  • Birthday 05/13/1987

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    Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
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    2008 DBM Legacy Wagon TP (Low and Slow)
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    310T Truck and Coach Mechanic

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  1. Can't wait for the snow to leave up here so I can start getting some work done on the beast! Really looking forward to dropping her back down on some new rims.
  2. Psh nope! Stuff usually stays pretty well in place. You will notice things do bounce around and the box can be noisy when empty.
  3. I've got the atlantis 1600. Fits nicely on my legacy wagon. But it does cause problems when wanting to open the sunroof. Can't complain other than that. It's quite nice to have.
  4. If you look at the wires carefully there are duplicates of the wires, but.... They aren't exactly the same. Subaru uses two colour wires with different numbers of grey circles around the wire. Some have one and some have two. So it may be a white/black - 1 grey, or may be a white/black - 2 grey. Keep an eye out. That's why I cut each wire one at a time and quickly crimped them together.
  5. Nice job! I'm going to re-inspect mine when it's warmer to see if anything has started to break. I wanted to make up a new piece of harness but that's not happening in these weather conditions.
  6. Not too concerned about it breaking. I'd rather have solder in there to keep everything together. I'm a truck mechanic and everything gets soldered where I work. Lets just put it this way. I'll be the guinea pig for this one. lol.
  7. I managed to get some when I picked up my wagon in 2010, but don't think they're that common any more. You may still be able to find a set though. I know I did some calling around for someone from the US and was told that they weren't stocked anywhere any more. Good luck with the search, you may get lucky. I like my oem bars for the looks but kind of wish I could go aftermarket for extra hauling space.
  8. What brand LED bar did you go with? Im considering getting rid of my light bar to get away from the current 'fad'.
  9. It's not noticeably louder with the rubber out. I use the stock thule square head carriage bolts to hold by bike racks on.
  10. Ok. Managed to get it all fixed. Here are some pictures of what happened. There are 14 wires in the bunch. Nine had problems. Two were broken outright, another two were almost gone. Fixed it all up. Hopefully I won't have these issues in the future, but now that I messed with it I probably will.. Usually the way my luck works. Strip the interior out of the car and look to the pass through on the passenger side. This is the side with all of the wiring. The other side has the washer fluid and the antenna connections. Pop enough clips off on either side to be able to give yourself a nice bunch of wiring to work with. Slide the pass through up out of your way (easier than going down due to the size of the wiring. I recommend stripping some of the electrical tape back so that you can get better access to the wiring in order to install the shrink tube. Fix the wires one at a time so you don't screw anything up. But it's pretty simple to join the colours and dashes. When you're finished hooking it all back up test everything to make sure it works properly. Wrap it with electrical tape to keep your wires nicely together and hopefully prevent as much movement. I sprayed a bit of fluid film into the rubber pass through to try to help slide it down due to the fact that the wiring harness is now bigger from all the shrink tube. I'm also kind of hoping that it will keep the wire casings softer but I doubt it. Put everything back together after you have ensured that it all works. Enjoy! http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/4612FB4D-368C-4CF4-91CD-3D0EBE1093EA_zpsmxc1d5ca.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/7F80FF78-A787-4A9A-851B-3FFA7BAF8E41_zpsu5pmmob1.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/F78D24EC-D65F-4816-B1E1-2A00FD3DFD81_zpsuef8tfdc.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/8238B911-047B-4B5D-AED1-C2D3566B65F1_zpsyqosdbix.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/5D8A79CB-CEF9-4642-B841-AA952D8E140B_zpsr2jznwac.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/33BAD319-DF78-4B0C-AB9B-5912DF53FCCC_zpsvd3sgrty.jpg I also fixed the airbag light problem that some of you may experience on your dash. Usually the problem is due to the passenger LED panel (near map lights). There are three resistors (marked 331) on the panel that usually break due to cold solder problems. You may want to look into it. Re solder the three resistors and your problems should go away. If you have any questions, ask away.
  11. I am sadly now part of this group of unlucky souls. I noticed that if I would lock the car with the tailgate up it would beep 5 times to tell me a door is open, if I closed it slightly it would beep once telling me all doors would close. It now doesn't beep at all when the rear hatch is open. Pulled my wiring ends off and found that I've got one broken wire and several cracked wires. I've got to get the work done before it gets worse. Third brake light wiring could be next. Le sigh. I'll fill out the canadian problem website. Hopefully we can bitch enough to get this sorted out. Anyone have an email address for SOC that I can bitch to? EDIT Called SOC, they're on holidays. Left a message for them. Submitted the canadian defect form and asked them to contact me so I can send them pictures. Now the fun begins of rewiring the hatch.... EDIT II Posted on a local subaru website for us canadian folk. Hopefully we can get some traction WRT this problem.
  12. In case we needed more proof that DBM looks good with white. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/4EA52909-1C53-4B05-AAB8-0574661BDDE5_zpsetvz1nky.jpg
  13. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/DF4FF4A1-A7C7-497F-94A1-15E496D6A7F8_zpsjbudvfyw.jpg Winter has arrived for us in northern ontario... So much fun! (I'll only be saying that for another week or two.)
  14. Just picked up a set of dirty rims for next year. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/null_zps571d046e.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/null_zpsfe62a7f5.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/hobbit13/null_zps4a3141c3.jpg
  15. ^^^ Do you see that thing when you drive? It always amazes me how many different designs of top boxes there are. With my thule on top of stock aero bars I can't open my sunroof due to the tilt design of the front piece. It makes me sad that I may have to get aftermarket bars to be able to use it in the summer. This thread needs moar box!!!
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