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Good morning all, I'm really tall. I have an office job and I also commute one hour each way. Lots of sitting. The Subaru is just too small for me, after about 20 minutes the car starts to bother my knees (airplane legs feeling). Have a tendency to put my foot alongside the brake pedal which can interfere with braking. Not to mention, I'm grouchy AF after the drives. I'm to the point I need a different vehicle or to deal with this. I tore the covers off of the seat brackets and have some ideas as to how to modify them to get more space. I'd like to go down in the back somewhere around 2 inches, and backwards at least 2-4". A used power/heated seat from a wrecked car is $100 all day long just in case something goes bad. Has anyone done anything like this yet? Are there any airbags in these seats?

I haven't had the money to do any mods to my Subaru after purchase. I really want to do the swaybar but I'll need to put a set of tires on it now. Should have done mudflaps, whole side of the car is ****ed from chips they lay down for snow traction. Pine tar peeled the paint on the roof, trunk and doors wherever it hit at around 6k miles. The paint won't seem to take any paste wax well, just looks splotchy. Spray wax is a little better, can't ever get the car to look good though especially after the pine tar. CVT has acted up a couple times. Seems to just be fine after the hiccups... In general, it's nice that it's a reliable AWD car that gets good fuel economy but it's about as boring as canned potatoes, so handling mods like the swaybar and appearance saving ones like mudflaps should come first. IMO.

So I waited for a good while then checked on my claim when I got an oil filter for my next change. They never submitted the claim. Service manager still had pics on phone. He claimed to resubmit. Called a week later and said Subaru rejected the claim. Really a bummer. No idea if said service manager really followed through with the claim. They said that the damage was from an outside influence and not thier fault. In a sense it is, their awful paint is. Essentially the car has paint flaws that are going to severely detract from the value. I had nuggety ass junk for 10 years that wasn't worth detailing. Now I spent 20 grand for more nuggety ass junk not worth detailing. Sweet.

Maybe the wind noise from the doors is creating a heuristic tactile illusion?

MrCobbs: What exactly happened to your paint? Same deal? and how long did it take to get it resolved? Securityguy: What do you mean by "push for the depreciation"? No response yet...

Did not ask any questions, took the pictures and they submitted for warranty approval by Subaru. I already know the service manager hates my guts from a little incident where he was having a bad day, so hopefully he submits it in an impartial way (or at least, submits it at all) Said it would take a week to get a response. The body shop manager said, and I quote: Paint just doesn't hold up anymore like it used to.

I'm going to try to get into the body shop at the dealership and see what they say... I have a place for a paint booth in my garage so I could try it myself, And I'm thinking about restoring my truck anyway. The one spot on the trunk lid is the only place that the touch up paint might help. The rest is blistered up and just looks bad. Looks like runs in the paint or someone dropped clear nail polish on it.

Beerguy, Well, its lifted... Now what? Going to go to the dealer body shop and see what they say. I'm fairly proficient with sanding and polishing but EVERY attempt at home body work has been straight out of a horror movie.

It's not so much the tar but the damage to the clear underneath the tar. I thought it was still tar and kept going after it, just thinking that it was super hard pine tar. It was distorted clear coat. I could about puke thinking about it. In reality the tar came right off no problem. I've been hammering on my clear coat with polishes and chemicals... Anyway the second picture is where paint actually came off. Better than stuffing grocery bags in rust holes so the heater could catch up, I guess (which was the reality with my last car) but still makes me about want to puke. I wouldn't expect a dealer to warranty it but it just seems flimsy to me. https://photos.app.goo.gl/F5qPpkCOPHIyvass1 https://photos.app.goo.gl/6h2Vs3yazbGT5ct23

I tried Wd40... and re-tried it on a spot on a door that I hadn't noticed before. It removes the pine tar just fine but leaves the clear coat all blistery and distorted looking where the tar was. Regardless of what takes it off the damage is done. I wish I had left it alone because the dealership isn't going to warranty a fingenail scratch all the way to the primer... They might warranty the blistery crap.

I got what I thought was pine tar on my Legacy during a vacation in Wisconsin. However multiple attempts to remove it have failed. Really sucks, it happened one month after I've bought the car and I've always hoped to be able to have a nice car I could wax and take care of. Always looks like hell with these white spots all over it. Metallic black in color too. This pine tar has totally resisted everything I've thrown at it. It basically became one with the clear coat and blistered and is one spot where it was the thinnest and any treatment might be more effective. It's now been more than 6 months. Supposedly isopropyl alcohol soaking and gentle buffing/a little fingernail action takes it off. Well it does. And the paint too. The tar essentially destroyed the clear coat and base coat everywhere it hit. I've tried everything from cleaner wax to bug and tar remover to Goo gone to multiple coats of wax. The car had a perfect wax job just before getting the tar on it. Looking like I have to shell out for a respray now.

In the next few weeks I'm hoping to hit 266666 and 666.6 on the trip odo as well. Hopefully I can remember to look.

Look like Porsche 944 flares

You haven't asked that many stupid questions yet!