Magnusonsubie's 05 LGT Wagon thread.

Psssst, I may or may not of recently ordered some of the same parts as you haha

Psssst, I may or may not of recently ordered some of the same parts as you haha

 

Awww come on! Really!?!?! You Kyle and I all will have the rear garnish now!!

A couple pictures from my short trip home this past week. I cherry blossoms.

From my short trip home a couple weeks ago. VW needed water in Medford Oregon and Oil in Seattle.

 

 

And Brandon just loves photographing my carbon rear garnish. I'm not complaining. One of my favorite little touches on my car.

 

Lookin good Mag! Your wheel/tire/fitment combo is ON POINT dude.

How are the isc coilovers?

What front top hat option did you go with?

What damping setting did you go with?

What are your spring rates?

How are the isc coilovers?

What front top hat option did you go with?

What damping setting did you go with?

What are your spring rates?

 

I like them personally but I've ridden in cars with more comfortable coilovers. I have the pillow ball tophats with the camber adjustment. Damping is full firm and spring rates are 8k front and 6k rear IIRC.

Which are more "comfortable"?

Which are more "comfortable"?

 

KW V2 and V3's. Better valving to match the springs.

Never hear anything bad about those KWs...

Aside from the fact that they've snapped?

Ohlins ftw they are cheaper than they use to be also

Just checking in, haven't seen this beauty in a long time. Car still looks amazing man!

I agree with Dave, I hate you as well because it's not mine haha.

Longtime no update. Car has been running great. Did the Cascade loop at the end of May with kalien32 and some other non legacy friends.

 

Then was in Portland for work for a couple weeks and curbed 2 wheels on a sneaky curb so it accelerated my plans to buy new wheels. Ended up with SSR GTX01 in Dark Silver 18x8.5 +44 and swapped my tires from the Rotas over.

 

 

Also visible in the last pic is the carbon Madrig spoiler. Some very fine tuning left to do on the fitment of it but it is miles ahead of the MachV spoiler in terms of fitment. Don't have any good pictures but I also snagged a full set of Brembos that I believe to be from an 07 STi limited as they are black instead of gold. Previous owner claims the owner of them before him recoated them but its hard to say. They need a refinish anyway so thats going to be a semi long term project. Going to rebuild the calipers with all new seals as well. Because do it once do it right.

i like the new wheels ! look very good !

Going to document my paint correction here. Doing little bits every day after work this week and borrowing a car from my parents to drive to work so my car can sit in a garage. Started with a decontaminate wash that removed all previous wax and coatings.

 

Drivers side rear quarter just behind the passenger door swirls.

 

 

Hard water spots on the hood

 

 

Swirls on the hood

 

 

Passenger side fender. Actually in really good shape and won't get any of the heavy compounds.

 

 

Passenger side quarter scratch

 

 

Another scratch

 

 

Passenger rear quarter swirls

 

 

License plate pocket swirls

 

 

These pictures were after the decontaminate wash just so I wasn't taking pictures of dust. I claybared the whole car including all the windows except the windshield as there are some large chips and a crack near the windshield so I'll just pay my glass deductible and get a new windshield soon. After the claybar the paint feels much better and I'm beginning to change my approach. I was planning on doing the full car with the various stages of pad types and compounds however I'm now thinking start with the lighter compounds and softer pads to see how it handles the swirls and then go to the heavier stuff for some of the bigger scratches that are in the paint. That way I'm not burning through unnecessary clearcoat in spots and hopefully then I'll be able to just maintain the paint and have it last awhile with regular 2 bucket washes and good coatings.

I went straight for Meguiars 105/205 when I did mine. I may have been able to use something less aggressive initially, but caring wasn't high on my list for that, I just wanted it done. Hopefully you can get a bunch done with something lighter.

 

I wasn't sure how well the 2 bucket would work afterwards, but I'm happy with it so far. I was considering using multiple wash pads, but so far I'm pretty happy with my meguiars microfiber mitt and the 2 bucket. The foam gun/cannon(whichever I'm in the mood for) as a presoak seems to do well for maintenance wash. That being said, I only finished my correction about 3 weeks ago. I forgot how good the car looks when it's clean and waxed.

looking good as always. Always proud to take a small part in your build. love the pics on instagram.

 

Dave

Guess I forgot to update here after the detailing. It didn't come out as well as I'd hoped it would. It is drastically better however there are still some swirls sticking around. Maybe I'll attack it again as I did my friends Tacoma and was able to get some pin stripping out of his paint from driving on trails.

 

Anyway just been driving the car and enjoying it. Did Aluminum control arms with Whiteline bushings all around.

 

Some pictures from the end of July when Kalien32 and I drove up to Mt. Rainier for the day and went hiking. Plus a bonus one at the end from a trip to Mt. Baker to go hiking as well the following weekend.

 

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Nice back drop and beautiful wagons!

Magnuson, your wagon is a sexy beast.

Great shots of some pretty wagons!

is the coilover any good? i'm considering getting the same

is the coilover any good? i'm considering getting the same

For the price they are they aren't bad. Part of it depends how you set them up. I have mine set with a little bit of preload rather than optioning a super high spring rate but I still have quite a bit of droop so I'm not riding at full extension all the time. Some bumps are absolutely awful others aren't bad. But I've ridden in cars with KW coils and they are much more comfortable than what I have.

Fressshhh as always!