Some random photos from the years and our adventures
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2014 Outback Premium
So I’ve been on here for years and now owned the family Outback for 7 of those years and for some reason I never started a thread for it and I’ve always just posted to the generic pictures or what have you done threads. I decided it’s time to make my own. We bought this 7 years ago used with about 30,000 miles. It’s remained mostly stock but it sure has taken our family on so many adventures. I brought both of our kids home from the hospital in this car and it’s traveled to Colorado, the outer banks, all around Lake Michigan and to the far Nw part of Wisconsin right by Minnesota. We frequently take it to Michigan and one day it will go on the sand dunes there for some reason we never make time in our trips to drive those just hike them which is still an awesome view and a lot of fun. This car has mostly had routine maintenance that I’ve done myself. It’s got 2 sets of tires so far new brakes front and rear 1 new wheel bearing and just recently I finally changed out spark plugs at 144,000 miles. Otherwise I e had the dealer do one trans drain and fill and the front diff along with a coolant flush at 120,000. We love this car and how safe it is and how we never worry that we can’t make it somewhere when we are in it. This thread will be our adventures as well as maintenance we do on the car so I’ll start with the old plugs I just changed out. I don’t think they look too bad considering the mileage. I do have to say though that I’ve got MPG better on the first tank of gas since the change so you could tell they were end of life.
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My wife loaded up the car while I slept and we took off for our Michigan adventure. Had a nice drive up and found a state park along the way to get everyone out and exercised. The park was kind of a hidden gem and in the 11 years we have been coming up we had no idea it was here. Great start to the trip for sure.
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Overall we had a nice trip other then one day I was sick. On the way back I found a gas station that had old school pumps it was pretty cool I don’t remember the last time I saw working pumps like this. It always amazes me how much stuff we can fit in our car this time was very packed even foot space was all filled.
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By the time unleaded gas was required, I was already married with kids.The overall boxy style with tumbler type numerals was fairly common by the time I started driving, but many old small gas stations in the desert where I grew up had this style of pump.
Great weekend for hiking went to see some changing colors and then test drive a couple newer OB’s while I stopped to get a cabin air filter and an oil filter. I think we have decided that we are going to do a newer limited 4 cylinder after testing several and looking at the ascent. Now just got to find the right one.
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Changed out the cabin air filter real quick today. Old one wasn’t terrible but it’s been at least 4 years so it was time
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Decided to take another quick trip up to Michigan on my days off.
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Guess she loves the Michigan gas don’t see this much but it also was an easy drive mostly 35-50 mph. Enjoyed more beautiful fall colors too
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147,600 miles
Got some new tires yesterday from Costco. Went with the Michelin defenders so far I like them a lot. Great deal with the 150 off, out the door was 760.
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Got some new tires yesterday from Costco. Went with the Michelin defenders so far I like them a lot. Great deal with the 150 off, out the door was 760.
Put on new Michelin wipers to with the tires also from costco. They seem like a nice wiper for 10.00 so we will see.
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Did the dreaded driver side headlight change. Now I’ve changed every bulb in this car in the last 2 months so hopefully we are all done. The headlights are the only pain and even those aren’t terrible it just hurts your arm when you try and take off as little as possible to get to it.
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Halfway to 300!
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All packed for the holidays I am always amazed how much we can fit in this car. Thought we would need the roof box but not this year.
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Driving home from work in the arctic and my check engine came on along with flashing brake and cruise control and the traction control just for a little while. It ran great for the 60 mile drove home so I’m hoping it’s just because it hasn’t got out of the negatives here but I’m going to try and get it read.
Arctic temps and lots of salt on the roads made me a white outback
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Code was a generic P0171 system too lean so I reset it and we shall see if it comes back or was a fluke of the cold weather
152,800 miles changed the oil. First time I’ve ever used a non Subaru filter o went with a Microgard select from O’Reilly. It looked like it’s well built from my research and filters well so I figured I’ll give it a try. Did not get a new crush washer so I might go back to Subaru for my next filter just didn’t feel like driving that way and since they have had issues with supply I figured I would just try this. Also put some royal purple injector cleaner in it since I had the lean code and it seems like it’s running smoother and getting slightly better MPG. Hopefully it keeps the code away.
Went out yesterday and the car cranked really weak and wouldn’t start. Gave it some extra juice and it turned over. It was chilly but I’ve got a new interstate battery from Costco so I was a little disappointed at the quality. I had my old battery 7 years and never had the issue with that one.
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