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Looking for a 2013-2014 Outback with 6MT and found this. What's a reasonable offer for this one below? worth pursuing? I am in NoVA area and MT is hard to find or sell here, you know DC area with all the traffic. This plus the accident gives it low resale value...

I just broke my 24" 1/2" Matco ratchet, it was all metal. Trying to undo a wheel bearing 36mm nut. I had a strong feeling it would break but had no access to a bigger breaker bar. So now I am shopping for new tools. Trying to decide on a 30" to 36" breaker bar, either Matco or SK. Maybe a used...

I am specifically looking for a M/T and the Outback looks least objectionable. As I could use the space and AWD is a bonus plus ground clearance. I have the following questions: Which years of the 2.5L are definitively free of the dreaded head gasket issue? Some sources say the issue existed...

My family always had Subarus and always had issues with them. Multiple head gaskets, transmission failures. Engine swapped. Currently have a 1998 Legacy in which neither the engine nor transmission are original. And it's at just over 200K miles which is really not all that much. When we got...

all of a sudden I got poor idle, it was impossible to idle, it would die. I pulled the codes, it had P0106 if I remember correctly. A quick search said it 's the MAP sensor on top of EGR. Swapped that and to no avail. Got my mechanic involved, he on a hunch pulled compression readings and at...

Cold start - good crank, fuel pressure - no start. warm start - works just fine. Crank and quick start. I had the fuel pump replaced, fuel pump control module, was looking into crank pos sensor, camshaft pos sensor, MAF, etc. Just now realized after reading the above it's most likely the ECT...

Have a mobile mechanic tell me $600 to replace the Camshaft position sensor, which is right under a AC Compressor. The sensor itself seems fairly straightforward. It's the AC compressor that's the issue. It's a F550 shuttle bus with 3 compressors. How hard is to to remove the compressor, $600...

2012 F550 6.8, V10 Crank no start position. One mechanic think it's bad gas. The other it's the Camshaft position sensor. I need to pull the codes. Need a scanner, something in the $300 range.

Have a shuttle bus with a 50 gallon tank with apparently bad gas which won't start. I tried to dilute bad gas with good gas and it still won't start. What's a decent electric fuel transfer pump I could use to get to the bottom of tank, with adapters?

I mean approximately determine within 1000 miles how many miles since the oil was installed? Color changes. I got two vehicles, one bought and one inherited. 2007 Mercury Mountaineer with 4.0L: This looks like at least 5K, maybe more. 180K on the engine so I am not overly concerned but will...

I've had this problem for 2 years and now just finally trying to resolve it. 2012 F550 Super Duty shuttle bus, V10 6.8L gasoline. 53K miles. It will crank forever and not start. Sometimes it will start after a minute of cranking, if I hit the gas pedal. Once it starts, it seems to run well and...

2013 GMC Yukon XL with 6.2L Want to tune out the AFM and maybe get a performance tune. In the past I was really happy with Diablo intune i2030 on my Tahoe 5.3L. The high octane performance tune transformed the vehicle. It was really nice and canned. However, i2030 is locked in to one vehicle. I...

Looking at this 2013 GMC Yukon Denali XL. 180K miles, the seller first said the engine is new and installed a year, upon digging through their paperwork turns out the 6.2L engine was dealer-installed closer to 4 years ago and has 45K miles on it. Anyway. The asking price was first 17K, then the...

This thread below is highly informative about AFM issues in the 5.3L GM motors, I disabled mine in the 2008 Tahoe some 60K ago and all seems fine. Oil burning stopped. It was burning 1qt/1000 miles before AFM disable via tuner. It started clacking upon cold starts some time ago but the noise...

Looking at the 10th generation of GMC Yukon XL (Chevrolet Suburban). Thinking about 2012 or so. When did it get the 8-speed transmission? I am mostly interested in the 6.2L engine as I hear it gets similar mileage to the 5.3L. I've had the 6.0L engine which got 11MPG consistently. I now have...

So I inherited 2007 Mercury Mountaineer with 190K miles and a replaced 4.0L 6-cyl engine. Know nothing about its history, nor why the engine was swapped nor the miles on the "new" engine. I get it the V8 4.6L is a lot more reliable, more power with about the same MPG. But I got to deal with this...

It's the rear emergency door in a 2011 F550 shuttle bus. The key used to open it but now won't even go in, can't be inserted. Something is jammed inside. I am soaking it in PB Blaster but it looks really jammed. The cover plate does move out of the way but the key won't go in, any key. I want to...

want to upgrade from 2008 Tahoe to 2010-2012 Suburban LTZ (leather, 4WD), which years to avoid? I am pretty familiar with the 2008 Tahoe issues, like leaking fuel pump due to rust. It has been mostly reliable but some things drove me nuts, like the cruise control that hasn't worked in the last 5...

The good, the bad, the ugly: 148K miles on 5.3L, 6390 engine hours, which seems like it was idled a lot (or is that number normal for an 18-year old vehicle?) I test drove, nothing obvious was wrong other than the fact it is a it's a rust bucket. The pass side window is off the rails, the...

2008 Tahoe, 250K, everything is original. Don't know how I did it but for the first time in my life I overfilled the engine with oil, Mobil 1, seems by about 1/2 quart, estimated. And it started knocking on cold starts. For the first 30 - 45 seconds or so. My engine leaks oil so I think it will...