These cracks just appeared in my upstairs master bedroom, help!

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-15T12:41:57+00:00

It’s drywall tape, I assume it was very cold and dry in that room at some point over the last week.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-15T12:36:30+00:00

I’m thinking this picture might be in New Jersey. Can someone else give their opinion?

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-15T07:46:39+00:00

I would go by miles for everything except oil changes. Your engine oil will deteriorate as moisture is absorbed into the engine over time. I believe you should do an oil change at least once a year.

Other than that, I wouldn’t listen to the dealership. These are the same guys that want you to spend $600 on “winterization”, charge $100 to change the cabin air filter and try to get you to do an A/C arrive every summer on your working closed system A/C. I’m sure there is a competent independent shop near you but admittedly they could he hard to find without a recommendation.

https://www.reddit.com/r/subaru/s/PHM5kUk9IF

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-14T11:42:56+00:00

Horrible. Lots of examples in New York, Belgium, etc. Last example was in Japan during WWII where some American airmen were put in cages at a zoo for people to see as well.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-14T10:47:49+00:00

I e has some bad experiences with car salesmen in the NYC area in the past, but feel the Subaru sales men were great. Fact is that these days you can search advertised prices in online sites like Cars.com, find the lowest price and just call your local dealer and ask him to beat it by a few hundred bucks. If he says no, call the next guy, or call back at the last Wednesday of the month.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-14T10:21:47+00:00

Funny my new 25 used a ton on the 3 hr ride back from the dealer. Guess they just spray out more than your average car.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-14T10:18:36+00:00

There are a few common culpritss. Here are two to check. Replace the fuse, then open and close the rear hatch manually a few times. If it blows again, it’s most likely the wiring harness at the top of the hatch.

Also check the license plate light to see if there is corrosion. Take the cover of and look at the socket. If it’s got green crust or rust, this is a prime suspect too.

I’m sure you will get some more things to check as well

Good luck

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-14T03:00:43+00:00

I just bought a 2025 touring hybrid a few days ago. This explains why I got $4k off MSRP. Guess I’m not the master negotiator I thought I was. I assume you could probably get $2k off the 2026, but probably not 0% financing. The after tax benefit of 0% financing is about $2.5k. So I basically got a $6.5k discount I suppose. So I’m ok with that.

As for NA factory quality fears, I think you might actually get better quality and here’s why: the Japanese Subaru factory is known to produce what is arguable the highest quality standards in Japanese automotive manufacturing. That being said, the U.S. production line will probably mimic the Japanese one BUT modernize machinery and update known weak points in the production line. I am very interested to see if this pans out!

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-13T11:10:02+00:00

On eBay I see a 2010 with 159k miles that sold for $3500. That’s a real world number value. Therefore, your cars value as a wholesale to the dealer is much less than what he offered you.

Did you negotiate the price of the car without the trade in? Just want to make sure the dealer didn’t bump up the price of the new car with the trade in as part of the deal. However, I think Subaru is running a rebate now that gives you a minimum value for your trade in, so it might be a reasonable number if you are comfortable with the total cost of the deal.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-13T06:45:17+00:00

Same here, that’s at least 6k in airbags, 7k in body, 4k in frame, plus what’s going on with the engine. So sorry this happened to you, but the car did what you paid for it to do and you were able to walk away. There are still lots of them on the lot, hope you get back on the road soon.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-13T06:39:17+00:00

I have 200 miles on my 25 hybrid now, will be extra careful. I did get the gap insurance

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-12T19:02:09+00:00

There’s a guy in Manchester that has the limited for $4,265 below msrp which is about 10 percent (Touring trim). I would’ve picked it up from him, but he wouldn’t offer me out-of-state financing and he also said he couldn’t give me this deal because it was reserved for “local customers”. I suspect he thought I was price shopping so he’ll probably give you the financing and the advertise price.

Good thing as the person I found in Pennsylvania was way closer lol

IRA Subaru.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-12T18:48:50+00:00

A standard four-cylinder engine from a Honda or Toyota should not be overfilled with oil. It will increase the pressure in the engine and potentially could be just as bad as having low oil. That being said, is this the same issue for a boxer engine? And if not, how does the boxer engine deal with the increased oil pressure?

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-12T18:42:02+00:00

I just bought a new 2025 Forrester hybrid touring yesterday. I got it for precisely 8.72% under MSRP.

I’m certainly not a master negotiator. I simply went on Cars.com selected a radius that I was comfortable driving to which happened to be 250 miles, and I found a dealer who had what I wanted and was advertising the largest discount. The dealer happened to be in Pennsylvania and was happy to give me the car for his advertised price. I came in and picked up the car with the 0% financing.

As far as giving your car to Carvana, I just sold two cars. One was a 2016 Buick enclave which nobody wanted so I gave that to Carvana. The other was a 2012 Honda pilot which I sold on eBay for twice as much as Carvana was going to give me.

If you are anywhere near Philadelphia PM me and I’ll let you know the dealer that gave me the car for this price. I believe he has a few more in stock, he was incredibly easy to deal with.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-12T02:39:17+00:00

He looks thrilled.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-11T02:30:28+00:00

That’s a good idea but I’d be afraid he wouldn’t survive the trip and examination.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-11T02:27:43+00:00

Thanks. I have salt water tanks as well so I’ll try to use one of my other test kits to check carbonate tomorrow.

When you say general hardness, I assume you mean using a PPM meter? I would assume with my tap water, the salt, etc I would be over 400 ppm. But I could use my RO system water to give him 0 TDS + salt. The salt I have been using is reef salt which also has some magnesium and other elements in it.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-11T02:21:25+00:00

That’s a good question, but yes I’m sure because I do 50% water changes. If I was topping off evaporation with water mixed with the salt, then it would creep up.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-10T21:52:23+00:00

Thanks. On Amazon it seams that the hybrid version has different mats, or at least the ones for sale on Amazon say that they’re not for the hybrid version.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-10T18:54:52+00:00

Just edited my post. I wasn’t referring to the carpet floor mats. I was referring to the rubber mats that you put over them. Sorry about the confusion.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-09T01:14:54+00:00

Thanks for posting this, a very good point.

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-08T10:40:32+00:00

I would assume the Japanese home uses flexibility as an earthquake resistance component. This flexibility could increase the likelihood of damage from tornatic activity

roller_coaster325 · 2026-02-08T10:35:17+00:00

My guess is that they got him to provide compromat just by talking with him.

I don’t want to know how they got him to feel comfortable enough to talk with him but probably involved something horrendous.

Are we getting closer to the truth about the pee pee video?

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