Who here owns a Subaru?

Passed MOT yesterday with no advisories. Going to treat myself to a new exhaust as a well done :D

Also had the centre cone gasket on the exhaust changed as there was a slight blow.
 
Rybo89 said:
How loud is 105db? What does it compare to? Looking at trackdays but the absaloute limit is 105db.

My car has a straight through exhaust with a afterburner back box. Is that likely to be over 105db?
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You will fail pretty much every test going with straight pipes lol
 
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Having been determined to buy an old Impreza as an investment, I changed my mind and put a deposit on a new Grey STi.

Should be arriving next week.
 
Curious niggle with mine appeared yesterday.

When I bought the car back in November the EML came on around 4 days in to ownership. P0302 Misfire cylinder 2. Spoke to the dealer who was great - car actually ended up going back to him for a week or so to resolve the problem. He took it to a well known Subaru tuner and they did a compression test, changed a few sensors, regapped the new spark plugs (that i had fitted) but said it actually turned out to be the map. They said they made some adjustments to it and the issues disappeared and hasn't returned since.

Yesterday the EML came back on, same code P0302. Cleared the fault and it hasn't come back, although I've not driven much since.

The only thing I had done at the weekend was a new cone gasket fitted in the exhaust centre section. I am wondering if the P0302 is being thrown up due to this, a change in what the O2sensor is seeing? I'd have expected an O2 related code to appear though.

Google is pointing more towards a dodgy Neutral Position Switch, from what I read this can thrown up 'red herring' Misfire codes. Another symptom is the car feels like it has 'no turbo' and feels very linear and slow when driving. I do have this on rare occasion but only when the car not quite up to temp. If trying to relate this, I would be assuming the trans warms up and expands, just about making contact with the switch pin, which apparently wears down due to the material it is made of, hence causing issues.

The car runs sweet as a nut, even when the code has been on and EML lit.

Anybody experience something like this before?
 
Phil W said:
Curious niggle with mine appeared yesterday.

When I bought the car back in November the EML came on around 4 days in to ownership. P0302 Misfire cylinder 2. Spoke to the dealer who was great - car actually ended up going back to him for a week or so to resolve the problem. He took it to a well known Subaru tuner and they did a compression test, changed a few sensors, regapped the new spark plugs (that i had fitted) but said it actually turned out to be the map. They said they made some adjustments to it and the issues disappeared and hasn't returned since.

Yesterday the EML came back on, same code P0302. Cleared the fault and it hasn't come back, although I've not driven much since.

The only thing I had done at the weekend was a new cone gasket fitted in the exhaust centre section. I am wondering if the P0302 is being thrown up due to this, a change in what the O2sensor is seeing? I'd have expected an O2 related code to appear though.

Google is pointing more towards a dodgy Neutral Position Switch, from what I read this can thrown up 'red herring' Misfire codes. Another symptom is the car feels like it has 'no turbo' and feels very linear and slow when driving. I do have this on rare occasion but only when the car not quite up to temp. If trying to relate this, I would be assuming the trans warms up and expands, just about making contact with the switch pin, which apparently wears down due to the material it is made of, hence causing issues.

The car runs sweet as a nut, even when the code has been on and EML lit.

Anybody experience something like this before?
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Simply put I didn't have an engine light on mine for the NPS - but I knew it was dying as it was on/off power wise. Easy enough swap (did it at PowerStation on a dyno day) - not heard about a CEL for it before.

Could be something like bad fuel, but you'd have to get really bad fuel to get the misfire CEL. Now you've cleared it, go put some fresh V-Power in and see how you go.
 
Its got fresh V-Power in, filled it up yesterday.

The fuel light was on (isn't it always? :D) for a few miles before fill up though, perhaps dragged some rubbish in to the fuel system?
 
It was enough to feel it differing in behaviour on the odd occasion. Logged it on the car for a few pulls one night and saw it go on/off and had it confirmed by RaceDynamix when getting mapped also.
 
It shouldn't affect peak power, but IIRC it's down to the AVCS not being active, hence feeling sluggish to get going. But once past 4.5krpm it's likely no different.
 
Sort of ties in then.

I have a friend who is a Subaru tech, he is going to I/O check the switch tomorrow night to see what's going on :)
 
Someone sent me this yesterday:

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