I actually just did the math. I’ve spent like 1100 labor over ~15 months of owning this car. Some of it was my friend charging me. My issue has been I can do some of the wrenching, but where we live now, I don’t exactly have a whole lot of space. Time is also an issue. It’s also my daily driver, or my fiance drives…

I would say depends if you if it’s a daily driver, of if it’s a project car. My Outback 3.0R when I first got it, I wasn’t 100% sure of all the maintenance done on it. So first thing I did was go to the dealer, did a synthetic blend oil change. I had did drain and fill for the transmission. I replaced the brake pads…

Mother of god someone put that truck out of it’s misery. Just test drive it straight off a cliff.

My family have always bought Michelin, at least mostly for me. But I had no idea Michelin bought out BF Goodrich years and years ago.

Yup. They were also shockingly cheap. I got mine mounted at Costco on 225/55/17 with the instant rebate for like 550 installed. Granted they are only 45k rated tires, I only put like 8-10k miles on my Outback every year. I was looking at Michelin Pilot Sport A/S with the same 45k mileage warranty, slightly lower speed…

Because my car has full time AWD, isn’t that much lighter than than your Crown Vic. The 3.0L H6 isn’t exactly economical. It has W rated UHP all season tires (BF Goodrich g-Force Sport Comp 2's). I also have a foot of lead.

Fueling them with fuel that costs more and makes it less fuel efficient? Seems like a lose-lose.

This will be good news for my 3.0R Outback. I’ve tried putting in 87 octane for giggles (in the fuel door jab, it says premium recommended but not required). The engine response felt sluggish, and I was getting 12-13 mpg from the 16-18 mpg I would normally get. The fuel economy drop was so massive, the delta between…

Engines that are lower compression that can’t utilize higher octane gas aren’t harmed by higher octane gas, but they will be less fuel efficient (some say 5-10%) and you are throwing away money.

My fiance’s sister’s other family has a camper up in Happy Hills Camp grounds in Hancock. They are pretty far up the camp ground. Most people drive up with SUVs or trucks. It’s not horribly rough, but the AWD does help.

Yeesh. I thought it was bad when I finally scrapped the factory Yokohama Geolandars (bad rain traction, horrible snow traction, as I assume they are low rolling resistance tires to get the best fuel economy) for Michelin Premiers A/S. I went from 26-27 mpg combined to 23-24. I recently changed out my Premiers to…

Haha fair point. I don’t do a ton of “serious” off roading, but on occasion we do drive to West Virginia or western MD where your soccer mom’s front wheel biased AWD will fail.

And there goes my thinking of getting 16" Sparco wheels with some chunky BF Goodrich KO2 T/A’s for my XV Crosstrek.

Look I’m all for crazy ridiculous things. But really Rolls? They could only squeeze out 563 hp from a 6.75L V12 twin turbo? You give that to a Japanese engineer he’d give you 800-900 hp at least..

I thought of all the Audi engines this era, the 2.8L V6 is the more reliable ones?

Yeah....H6 + full time AWD plus it’s as aerodynamic as a brick? Well that and I have a foot of lead and it has super grippy W rated tires. If I am very light footed, I can average like 17-18 mpg, and can crest like 25-26 highway.

Jeez I thought my Outback 3.0R 15.3 combined MPG was atrocious.

Eh my interest was 6.99%, my credit wasn’t 100% great when I first got it. The stupid part was there was no difference of lower interest unless it was like 24 or 36 months, hence there was barely a difference between a 60 or a 72 months loan.

Jeez and I thought my 72 month loan in 2014 for my Subaru XV Crosstrek was bad, and it wasn’t even subprime..

Low mileage/rarity != valuable.