Man of Honour
Oil will be about 90-100 on hot days at steady cruise, can go up over 110 with hooning.
Who here owns a Subaru?
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Man of Honour
OK, that was embarrassing. I was driving into work yesterday when I saw in my mirror that the car was emitting a huge cloud of white smoke. Picture a WW2 destroyer laying a smoke screen and you are getting close. Water temp shot up, and I had to pull over. Not easy on the M60, but there's a hard shoulder on the J16 slip anti-clockwise, so I pulled over there. Called the RAC (got to get your money's worth) who arrived about 50 minutes later (at some point "Junction 16" got translated to "Junction 18"). The guy quickly found a fair-sized split in the top radiator hose. He filled the car up with enough water to drive on, and I drove a bit up the road to find a proper spot for a repair, trailing a huge white cloud. He managed to bodge a new centre section to replace the broken hose, and i got going again. New hose ordered, now I jest need it to arrive so I can fit the thing.
Man of Honour
Broken one was, yes. New one is OEM as well. I'm getting too old and poor to pay an extra £70 for a Samco one to match the FMIC pipes.
I was wondering if anyone knew what that lone switch with the orange light does.
Also found the fault with the radiator fans, turns out there is another disconnected wire for the NS fan for low speed control, as the fans spins up on high speed. So I believe the disconnected under the fuse box which will be fun to try and find.
Antilag? Launch control? Has it got an aftermarket ECU?
Associate
This or map change
Man of Honour
Import? Fog light switch?
Caporegime
More than likely this. Mine had this but replaced and rewired it with an OEM style button.
Good call!
Ye it is an import and a good shout on the fog light, will have a play with it over lunch
Associate
I'd also put money on it being this.
Mine came with a square one.
I've got a couple of standard fog light switches to go in....will fit one of them one day..
Man of Honour
It was a con - the switch was marked as "Auto" but IIRC only the JDM cars actually had the automatic function. For UK cars it was not enabled on the map.
Soldato
His is JDM mine just a has the manual spray 
my water spray doesnt even work it worked on the wr1 though
it worked on the wr1 thoughdo you use the water spray at all?His is JDM mine just a has the manual spray
Soldato
Yeah been using it a bit in this heat wave.
I miss the water spray. Not fitted to this car. May have to retrofit...
Soldato
Colder inlet temps = more power = pistonring failure
= quicker path to an EJ20 swap or destrokered 2.3, or EJ22 block 2.3 