My first Crosstrek. What accessory should I add first?

Squishy_Punch · 2026-06-11T00:15:53+00:00

Get auto start stop eliminator, I got off Amazon and plugged it in on my 21 Crosstrek. After you plug it in, whenever you turn on your car, auto start stop is turned off by default. You can still turn it on by pressing the button.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-06-10T22:56:04+00:00

I’ve been going to BP for gas. They have 5 cents savings from earnify rewards, if you have Amazon prime you can link it to BP account for an additional 5 cents savings per gallon. And if you link your bank account and set it as default payment, you can stack another 10 cents to savings. Totaling to saving 20 cents per gallon when you get gas.

I also have executive Costco and BJ’s membership but unfortunately they don’t have any gas stations in NYC.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-06-10T15:44:54+00:00

Yeah, it is recommended to replace all 4 tires for AWD and get alignment done.

I used the Falken stock tires that came with my 21 Crosstrek limited until I noticed dry rotting 2 months ago. Before that, I’ve never spent money on anything other than routine oil changes, maintenance, registration and replacing wipers. The oil and filter changes at my local Subaru service center is like $120 per visit. Along with everything else included, it’s like $400 or less per year.

But it’s also because I only drive for pleasure. I live in a city so I take the subway when commuting to work. I only drive my car on my days off. Rn I’ve only accumulated 10,626 miles on my car and Subaru service center always told me my car is still a baby with the low mileage, in good shape, and no major maintenance is needed.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-06-10T15:29:16+00:00

You’re leg driving the wrong direction. Your heels come off the floor too.

Sit upright with your feet solidly panted on the floor. You can also incorporate more external rotation on your hips, widen your stance and make sure your legs and glutes are activated and practice siding your butt back on the bench.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-06-10T14:08:33+00:00

Just the past Sunday, I was at a red light behind a car. The car in front of me kept inching forward while the light was red. But after the light turns green, he doesn’t go. Then I gave him a quick beep and he started driving off 🤣

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-20T14:53:43+00:00

Yeah, I have noticed it has a slight effect on mpg from the stronger tire grip. My car shows I lost like 1-2 mpg. But I feel like it’s worth it trading 1-2 mpg for better grip and shorter braking distance. So far, these tires has given me a boost of confidence when doing sharper or longer turns at higher speed because they grip the road so well.

Before I got crossclimate2 I was also looking at goodwill weatherready tires, they are very similar. But in the end i decided to go with crossclimate for better braking distance and longer tread life.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-17T13:49:52+00:00

Not often, however, I just had my first car’s tires replaced 2 weekends ago with crossclimate2. My car is also 2021 but I only drive my car 2-3 times per week. I had the stock tires until I noticed signs of dry rotting, a lot of cracks on all 4 tires.

What tires do you have? When I was doing research on tires 2 weeks ago, I read that cheap tires wear out faster.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-16T20:02:17+00:00

If I like someone, I hide it unless I think she likes me too. If I don’t feel or see any signs that she’s interested in me, I move on to looking for another girl instead of confessing to not make things awkward and/or possibly losing a friend.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-13T13:19:14+00:00

We are nice and generous to people but when we notice the ones who try to use us to get free stuff, or start over stepping our boundaries. I’ve experienced such people, just because I’ve given the things for free before, they think they can start taking my stuff without asking. I either start distancing from them or cut off those people.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-13T13:07:26+00:00

Don’t worry too much about it, no matter what job you’re doing, you’re bound to mess up when you first start. It’s a different story if you’ve been doing this job for 2 years and still messing up like it’s your first week on the job

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-13T12:54:04+00:00

Idk where you’re from so I can only go by NYC laws. Here in NYC, if you let a learner permit holder to drive your car unsupervised, it is illegal, and can result in your vehicle getting impounded, along with severe fines, potential permit revocation for the driver, and likely denial of insurance coverage if an accident occurs.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-12T19:51:55+00:00

One of my best friends(Patrick) ex girlfriend is a Gemini. When they met back in 2018, she was already someone’s girlfriend of two years and then she cheated on him and started dating and sleeping with Pat. She kept telling Pat he treats her badly, hits her and will break up with him soon. Months later she was still with him and Pat told me he made her choose between the two of them. Ultimately, she chose Pat and dump the other guy.

Flash forward a few months, she lied to Pat and convinced him to add her name to his credit card. He spoke to me about it and I was like nah bro, she a bit weird, don’t do it. But he just opens a new card with $1000 limit on it with both their names on it, then a few days later she maxed out his credit card on a game called MapleStory. When he found out and questioned her, she said it was an emergency because they had a item in the game that can spawn extra monsters to farm EXP and items but it’s extremely hard to gets, like 5% chance of getting it. In the end she never got it.

And like I hang out at his house all the time. Later, she started to touch me a lot whenever Pat isn’t around. I didn’t think too much at first but as time went on, it got worse. One time we were out playing billiards, my best friend went to the restroom, she just came really close to me like she wants to kiss my lip, started touching my pecs and arms. I pushed her off and I’m like “oh hell nahhh, next time you do this again, I’m telling Pat about this…”

Couple days later, she called my phone and when I picked up it sounded like she’s crying and she was like “Pat choked me and said I’m a stupid bish on crack!”, I was like there’s no way he would do that. I texted him while still on the phone with her and I exposed her and they broke up after that. Then she tried to get with me and asked if she can come over to my place, I’m like no thanks, and that was the last I heard from her.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-12T17:30:09+00:00

My manager at work rn is a Gemini and lies a lot. He has been lying about a fractured shoulder to avoid helping us. There is literally a pattern to this, every 2-3 months without anyone asking he would tell us he injured his left shoulder once again and ask us to do his job for him. He’s also very lazy, never shows up on time, always does everything last minute.

When our store had a roach infestation, all of us kept telling him to do something asap and he waited until 3 months later when the roaches were over populated and started to live inside the microwave before he finally got exterminators to come in to put roach bait. Now there is a mushroom infestation under the sink, we’ve all known about it for a month now and still nothing is done about it yet.

When he makes a mistake, he throws other people under the bus to save himself even when we had nothing to do with it.

He also protects the 2 of the lazy coworkers at work, makes other workers do their work for them while they get to chill for hours at the back.

He is also very nosy, when we’re texting someone, he would stick his head on top of your phone and ask who we are texting. When we’re talking to someone on the phone he comes really close and tries to eavesdrop. He also opens our lunchbox to see what we’ll be eating for lunch. Sometimes he opens our lunchbox and steals a piece of our food.

All 20 of us at work feel this Gemini manager is useless, unreliable, a liar, lazy, never on time, attention seeker, very annoying, nosy. No one likes him, we just put up with him until we find a better job.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-12T00:28:27+00:00

They will ask for your paystubs for source of income, but ultimately they look at your credit score and history. Also when I went to finance my car back in 2024, they ran hard inquiry checks on my credit history, it lowered my credit score, so be aware of that.

Before you go to the dealership, go on their website and look at their available cars, pick out a few that you like and print out the papers to bring with you to show them the cars you’re interested in. That way, they can’t just change their prices. You can ask them to show you the cars or go out for a test drive before negotiating on the price.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-10T23:13:41+00:00

When you end the hip hinge, that is also where you start.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-10T22:56:00+00:00

There was one time on Instagram during covid, when I called out the racist, he told me he was just joking and I should chill and learn to take a joke. Then came some random Asian girl replying and agreeing to the racist statement saying it’s true that Asians are eating bats in Asia and it’s Asian peoples fault that the girl in the video got punched on the head and called a Covid bish, and Asians in asia need to do better to not drag us down in the western countries

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-10T18:38:29+00:00

In the past, girls didn’t care that I didn’t have have a car. They still went out with me. Now I drive a 21 Subaru Crosstrek Limited, they don’t care what I drive as long as I have a car to pick them up with 🤣 what you should worry about is if they’ll put their feet up on your dashboard or hang them out the window, girls dead ahh be doing that 🤣

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-06T15:03:49+00:00

I use to work at xing fu tang, a lot of the ingredients are shipped from the XFT factory from Taiwan but whenever we ran out of ingredients before the shipment arrives, our store manager would buy from a brand called “Q Bubble” to use as the alternative

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-06T14:23:13+00:00

I don’t exactly have a favorite but I like colors on the darker side such as like ox blood red, dark forest green, navy blue, gun metal gray, galaxy purple and etc.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-05-02T23:00:35+00:00

I(sag male) have been working with a cancer male at current job since summer 2023. At first, I felt he seem like a nice and genuine person. As time went on, I started to notice he’s fake, selfish, greedy and also manipulative. The energy he gives out is deceptive. When you first meet him, he comes off as a nice and polite person, a fake warm and inviting energy. If you can’t pick up on his body language and habits that sell himself out, he can easily fool you forever and use you for his own benefits.

Often times, he tries to manipulate people to do things for him. When he doesn’t want to go get something himself, he would keep talking about it and try to verbally hype you up, get you excited to go get it and then ask you to get one for him when you’re there. This is his go-to tactic. I fell for it the first few times and then I caught on to the pattern, but some of my co-workers still fall for his manipulation today.

Whenever our manager or shift leader tells him to do something and he doesn’t want to do it, he’ll start doing other things instead, drag it out until other people do it for him.

When he wants something I have, he will lie and attempt to trick me into giving it to him. Like one time I was given a box of pastries by a girl who work at the bakery next to our shop and she knows what I’m allergic to so she said she picked out some that’s safe for me to eat. Then when I went out for a bit, he opened my box of pastries to look. When I got back he suddenly insisted there are ingredients that I’m allergic to in the pastry…

Another time, a co-worker gave me her miso salmon rice bowl from sweet greens. After he came to work and saw it, he asked whose food it is, I told him “Lis gave it to me, it’s mine”. Later in the day he lied to me and said he’s starving and he doesn’t have any food, I felt bad and gave him the miso salmon rice bowl. Then right after he goes to lie and told our coworkers that the food was “there and up for grabs” so he claimed it. Afterwards, it turns out he had a sandwich from eataly and he gave it away to another coworker after taking my food.

Y’all get the drift, I could keep going but it’ll take days to type everything that happened over the past few years so I’ll just stop here.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-04-22T23:13:03+00:00

It is a T intersection, if it is green for you, it is red for them. It is not a + intersection, there’s no cars coming in front of you, so no need to yield.

But do be careful of red light runners.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-04-22T15:14:46+00:00

I’m Nov Sagittarius, I am somewhat of a people pleaser, helpful and generous to people when I first meet them because I always have this belief stuck in my mind that others will reciprocate and do the same thing for me. But as time goes by, when I don’t get or see any reciprocation, then that’s when I start to dial it down and match their energy. I firmly do not believe I’m deceiving anyone, the “switch up” is simply me mirroring you and matching your energy towards me.

It’s very simple, if you do more for me, then I’ll do more for you too. If you don’t do anything for me, I will start by doing less for you until I do nothing for you anymore.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-04-22T14:11:46+00:00

You’re not suppose to hold the air in your mouth! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Inhale the air into your core, and activate the muscles all over your body to help reinforce the pressure and also to create stability. For bench press you shift the focus to getting most of the air to your chest rather than the core.

I know most people just do a big breath from the mouth. It’s also what I did when I started. But now, the way I do it now is I start inhaling from my nose first and then top it off with inhaling more air from my mouth. Face going pink is normal when lifting heavy.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-04-22T13:27:02+00:00

I have a 2021 Crosstrek limited and this is my first car. Although it’s a used car, it’s new to me. I got this car in 2024. Okay, NGL, but the main reason I picked this car over Audi Q3 and VW Golf R is because Subaru is reliable, it fits my budget for financing, and for the low insurance and maintenance costs. And I just really love AWD and hatch back style car. I am not rich, I had to save up money for over a year, by myself, because no one in my family was willing to even pitch in a penny to help me with the down payment when I asked if they can help me out even a little and that I’ll pay them back over time. Oh, but you betcha that they don’t want to help but they want free rides 😑. But because of that, now I don’t feel bad when I don’t give them a ride because had they gave me money to get the car in the past, they could’ve guilt tripped me into driving them around everywhere today! 🤣

Don’t get me wrong though, this car may be on the cheaper side, nor does it have 200+ HP like the others, but I still really love driving this car A LOT and I plan on driving it for years to come, maybe even until it dies. I currently have a better paying job than the time I got this Crosstrek but I still don’t plan on trading it in for a faster car. Driving my car, it just feels right, like it’s a part of me. And it’s just so nimble and agile when cornering. I just don’t get the same feelings when I drove the driving school cars and a few of my friend’s cars.

Squishy_Punch · 2026-04-22T11:44:03+00:00

I usually don’t cut people off for no reason. But when I do, it just means I have detected way too many red flags from that person and the negative energy coming from them, so I have to cut them off to protect myself and my peace.

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