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I'm new to the thread, how would I go about ordering the dash rattle stoppers? Do I PM the guys from the first page?

Bumping thread because I fixed it, see first post

I kinda fixed mine. I sprayed all the moving parts/hinges with white lithium grease spray, which got rid of some squeaks and made the action a little smoother. I popped the trunk open and it opened kinda hard and I hard a loud 'POP' and realized one of the torsion rods had come out. This was my A HA moment. I realized that the bar with the hinge fork on the driver side wasn't sitting as square on the rod as the passenger side. (I'm talking about the 'U' shaped part on the end of the rod). What happened was the retainer hook for the bar end had deformed and pushed out quite a ways, which caused the rod to be in the wrong place. I bent the whole retainer side back as best I could and now the rod lines up. And now when I pop my trunk, it doesn't just relock itself! The other thing I noticed on mine was that the locking mechanism is dragging just a tad, like it is off center with the latch. I'm going to try and adjust that so that it opens and shuts with as little resistance as possible. TL:DR - My retainer on the driver side was deformed and the trunk fork wasn't in the right spot. Fixed the retainer and lined the bars up and trunk unlocks now. Latch mechanism is also binding a bit which needs adjusted, could definitely help during the initial pop of the trunk.

My bars are in the correct orientation and it still just locks immediately unless upward pressure is applied while unlocking Could it be the latch? There must be something that pushes the trunk up and out of the latch before the torsion bars take effect.

Thanks for those pic! I'm going to try and make sure mine are set like that and see if it makes a difference. Right now it seems like sometimes it will unlatch like that and other times it will immediately lock again. Someone on another forum suggested the latch itself could be faulty but I don't see how that is possible, I thought it only locked and unlocked and didn't provide any additional functionality.

I bought a Legacy GT and one of the problems with the car is the trunk would only open if you are pulling up on it while hitting the remote. If you don't pull up on it, it unlocks and immediately locks. I did some research and determined that a previous owner must have installed the OEM spoiler and didn't upgrade the torsion rods. I ordered the stronger torsion rods for use with OEM spoiler and it really didn't make much of a difference. EDIT 11/18 - I fixed the stupid trunk! I finally figured out how to fix this stupid trunk! The secret is in the latch. You have to remove the plastic covering and then unscrew the two 10mm bolts, then push the bracket as far down as it will go, then tighten and reassemble. It is as easy as that! You can see in my picture the faint outline of where the bolt originally was, it was just a cm or 2 too high. Now my trunk works like a charm, from both the remote and the lever.