I love my Legacy

[mtsmiths]

... Shoot, if I drive more than an hour in one direction I'm all wet!... Keep smiling . . . keep enjoying.

 

Eh brah, you going drive da H-1 fo' one hoah, you going be lucky you get from Kaimuki to Mililani. da las' time I wen' Oahu da traffik so Pilau. An alla time get stink eye from da ricers trin' go aroun' no mattah how fas or wat lane I stay.

 

Hawaii s'all hammajang now. I li' Montana mo bettah.

[frag]

Eh brah, you going drive da H-1 fo' one hoah, you going be lucky you get from Kaimuki to Mililani. da las' time I wen' Oahu da traffik so Pilau. An alla time get stink eye from da ricers trin' go aroun' no mattah how fas or wat lane I stay.

 

Hawaii s'all hammajang now. I li' Montana mo bettah.

 

Mtsmith, I see you've taken out that jug of Purple Jesus again. Well, at least the fuel filter is done... even if it's a black one. Here's one to your health:drunk:

[mtsmiths]

EH Frag, iss no da Purple Jesu' make talk pidgen li'dat, iss da okolehau*!

 

* okolehau - Hawaiian Whiskey like rum, only stronger, literally 'iron bottom', so named after the big iron pots the cane mash was cooked down in.

[Legacypusher]

Hi, gang. I have a '90 Legacy L wagon fwd m/t with 147K on it, and what a great car she's been. Three half shafts, three front wheel bearings, a couple of timing belts, and a couple of sets of brake pads, one a/c compressor, and radiator are the only replacements I've had to make, other than the usual belts, plugs, hoses, filters, etc.

 

I do the tune-ups myself and keep the oil/filter changed religiously. My local Subaru dealer actually lent me the crank pulley tool when I replaced the radiator, since I figured it might be a good time to replace the timing belt and the rest of the belts and hoses while the radiator was out.

 

I routinely get around 30 mpg, and have used the gal to tow a Snipe sailboat across country more than once. Worse mileage when towing, of course. The original clutch is feeling a tad iffy upon engagement, but doesn't slip. Guess that's my next project.

 

I just wish the jerks in parking lots would be a bit considerate. I have way too many dings, even though I have always tried to park with adequate space to avoid them. There you go.

 

Great site, and very informative.

 

Don

[Olnick]

you going be lucky you get from Kaimuki to Mililani.

 

Very good, mtsmiths, very good. You speak da'kine well. So how long you stay go?

 

Yes, depending on the time of day you'd be lucky to make Mililani in an hour. I drive 8 miles to work, Kuliouou to Kapiolani near Ala Moana Center--15 to 20 minutes during the summer, but next week UH, Punahou and Iolani all start classes, Yikes! I'll allow an hour 'til everyone settles into their patterns.

 

But the big question is . . . where the heck do you find okolehau in Montana?!!

 

Alo-o-o-o-ha!

[Zefy]

i personally love my parents 01 legacy... they feel somewhat different about it though...

 

i just love how its a legacy L but it still has a bunch of stuff you could only find on a high priced version of something else...

 

it's cool when people pulled up beside me with a civic or mustang or something along those lines and i blow them away... and i am driving a freakin' family wagon with a tweety hanging in the back window... the acura TSX was a tie... i was beside him the whole time...

 

there are some things that aren't cool about that car though... like how the blinkers don't work... well they do but you have to fidget with it to get it to work... and the thing were it pops outa reverse... i checked on alldata and its a common problem with the 5mt's from 01...

 

those 2 things makes my dad not really like it... oh and an exaust leak...

 

it sucks for me because i'm not supposed to drive it anymore... they took the insurance off it for me because i got the brat insured...

 

i miss going fast...

 

haha... the brat is a blast though...

[mtsmiths]

Very good, mtsmiths, very good. You speak da'kine well. So how long you stay go?

 

Yes, depending on the time of day you'd be lucky to make Mililani in an hour. I drive 8 miles to work, Kuliouou to Kapiolani near Ala Moana Center--15 to 20 minutes during the summer, but next week UH, Punahou and Iolani all start classes, Yikes! I'll allow an hour 'til everyone settles into their patterns.

 

But the big question is . . . where the heck do you find okolehau in Montana?!!

 

Alo-o-o-o-ha!

 

I go Hawaii-ne from da BEEG Islan' (California) 1977, live Kailua-Kona for mebbe twenny year, sometime mainlan', sometime Oahu. Wen marry one kamaaina haole girl (Punahou brat). Numbah One Son stay Kapolei, we go Montana. I get tir' of dat Trask wahine shotting off da mout!

 

Auwe, no mo' okolehau in Montana and fo' shure no mo' da kine ... rump roast why hahd, get da "Purple Jesu'" (white lightning with Huckleberry juice inside, a friend up in Whitefish brews it).

 

Shifting to English:

 

I had a custom carved sign company on the Big Island, and did work all over the state. Later (after four years in Tucson while my wahine got her masters) went to work for Media Five (which was a BIG architectural firm in the '80's). After, I started working for HI DOT-Air, doing all the sign design for Hawaii state airports terminals.

 

After kids got through with college we moved to Montana for 'a change'. We intended to stay three years and go home ... that was in '96, and now Whitefish IS home, and we may never go back to Hawaii ... or we might? Still got a house in Kapolei, but would NEVER live there. Would like to find a place out by Dillingham, so I could hang out and surf and fly sailplanes all day.

[Zack]

Just drove my AWD auto '90 Legacy wagon (with 160,000 miles when I started) from NYC out to a cabin I own out west. Drove 2900 miles out, and an additional 1100 miles while I was there. Wonderful car. Absolutely trouble-free, drives like a new car except for some extra wind noise from the driver's side window (and, truth be told, the original shocks are beginning to show their age!). The AC, which I converted before leaving NYC, worked fine (and was badly needed during the heat we encountered in the midwest in late June).

 

For the record, if my calculations are correct we averaged about 27.7 mpg on the way out. This was with two fairly light adults, and the back seats folded down and the back filled with stuff. About 25 percent of the driving was on the interstate, 50 percent on high-speed 2-lane roads, 25 percent on slower twisty 2-lane roads. We were using the A/C about one third of the time, and I generally drive pretty gently (although I like to cruise at 70-80mph, conditions permitting.

 

Zack

'90 Legacy wagon AWD auto 164,000 miles

[Gnuman]

Yes, I'm resurecting an old thread, but this is one that needs to be visited again and again. When my Legacy wagon was sold new in 1992, it came with an EPA estimated milage of 23MPG city and 27MPG Highway. Today, after 186,000 miles, it is still getting an average of 25MPG mixed, and 27MPG on the freeway with the cruise set at 85 (I'll bet that is not how they tested them at the EPA in 92). Add to this that the car holds the road like it is bolted to it, takes off like a scalded cat when I punch it, and will still readily break 110MPH and be rock stable at that speed. My guess is that I have a good solid 10 years left in this car, and probably a good solid 200,00 miles to go before anything really major needs to be done. Engine needs to be resealed, struts need replacing, and the original owner did not care much for bodywork, but when I change the oil at 3000 miles, I can still see through it (although I loose about a quart in 3000 miles). It has been said that the EJ22 engine that this car came with is one of the best engines that Subaru ever put out. My Legacy lives up to that reputation in spades.