Captain Ned

Was headed north on US 23 south of Ann Arbor (on way to Holland, MI for a gathering) and passed a black 5th Gen LGT. Black, debadged, and MI plate. If you're on here, I'm the guy in the GGM LGT with VT plates that passed you. I saw your head whip around as I did.

GGM 5th Gen at corner of Concord & Portland streets in St. Johnsbury, VT at lunchtime. From the 1st 3 letters of your plate, it was registered in the last 18 months or so.

Best one I ever got was just after I bought it back in October 2009. I was at a gas station filling up and some guy in a MA-plated car congratulated me on my "sweet-looking Infiniti". I left his jaw agape when I told him it was a Subie. I got back in, patted her on the dashboard, and said "that'll do pig, that'll do".

Hmm, never seen that one before. VT plates?

Hello.

I'm in Montpelier most weekdays. Look for the filthy dirty 5th gen with a scoop.

Try living in VT, Subie capital of the Eastern US. I've seen 2 5th-gen GTs in the 4+ years I've owned mine.

Box-stock '10 LGT in GGM with VT plate CAPNNED (really, hiding your plate in pictures accomplishes exactly nothing). Usually in Burlington VT to Montpelier VT with excursions all 'round VT for work. Come snow time, I'll be rocking the steelies.

Ah, the nap lap. 'Twas 14-15 years ago now but I learned every single dirt road in NW VT trying to keep the squalling beast quiet. Unfortunately the ride at the time was a '97 Civic (non-riced).

River Valley Credit Union.

I'll admit that I saw the 340lb rate, added that number into the Bilstein/Blacks setup, said "not in my car", and posted.

And, as usual, I find that I've gone off and spoken from my nether regions once again. Someday I'll learn (not bloody likely).

Dug into the original RCE Blacks thread and they're 240 lb springs. Adding another 100 lb to the rate simply wouldn't work here. If you live in a land of ever-perfect pavement and never need to hit the dirt roads, the new Tarmac Zeros are worthy of your attention. If you live where I live and install these, you're a masochist. There's no absolute value decision here. It's all about horses for courses and, in my slice of the world, the Bilstein/RCE Black combo is already close to the comfort limit (no, I'm not complaining or having buyer's remorse) so adding 100 lb to the spring rate would be suicidal for me. If you're not in VT, the decision is likely completely different.

Intriguing, but given the lunar surface nature of VT asphalt roads (let alone the dirt roads) I'll stick with the Bilstein/RCE combo and their under 300 spring rate (/handwave). No doubt they're a great product, but just don't fit in my world. That said, if I were a Cali guy I'd have a long look at these.

OK, Hauptfeldwebel Schultz.

Right. Owned my '10 LGT for almost 4 years now and have seen exactly one other 5th gen LGT on the roads here in northern VT over all that time. The two biggest Subie dealers in the state are commonly-owned and the service writer tells me he only sees three 5th gen LGTs between both shops.

Hmm, I'm 3.5 hours away. Must explain why I never see other LGTs, even 4th gen.

According to AutoWeek that'll be fixed for the 2014 model year.

Twister: Cow!!! Watch out, another cow!!! No, same one.

Try up here in Northern VT with a 5th gen LGT. I've seen 2 others in the almost 3 years I've owned the car.

I've got the same wiggle and it seems to me to be a repeat of the seat issues in the first-gen bug-eye WRXs.

They'll pull the codes off the computer and tell you. Without knowing the exact code there's no way to say what it is other than something is clearly Not Right.

Bad images aside, I think I have the only '10+ LGT in Northern Vermont besides the one still for sale just down the road at a salvage-title dealer but at a non-salvage price.

Colchester here, and plenty of 4th gens to be found. I've seen 1 5th gen on the road and 1 in a "you crash it, we sell it" lot.

DRL delenda est.