1999 Subaru Forester S Wagon 4-door 2.5l All Power/heated Seats. 149k Miles on 2040-cars
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Body Type:Wagon
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:2.5L 2458CC H4 GAS SOHC Naturally Aspirated
Fuel Type:GAS
For Sale By:Private Seller
Make: Subaru
Model: Forester
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Trim: S Wagon 4-Door
Options: Cassette Player, 4-Wheel Drive
Drive Type: AWD
Safety Features: Anti-Lock Brakes, Driver Airbag, Passenger Airbag
Mileage: 149,855
Power Options: Air Conditioning, Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows
Exterior Color: Red
Interior Color: Tan
Disability Equipped: No
Number of Cylinders: 4
Selling a great 1999 Subaru Forester. 149xxx (nearly 150k) miles. It was my daily driver but I now walk to work and no longer need my favorite car. Has a clean NY title in my name. Was owned for many years by an elderly woman who put the 1st 109k miles on it before I purchased it in 2010. Was my daily driver.
New gas lines 2011
New brake lines 2011
New timing belt 2011
New Fuel filler (common problem in these cars) 2012
New clutch 2012
New Clockspring 2012
Power windows/locks/mirrors, heated mirrors/heated seats.
This car runs excellently. 5 speed manual has a new clutch and pulls great. A pleasure to drive. Minor rust starting under both back wheelwells. Body in great shape for the year, some minor scratches, etc. from natural Boston wear on a vehicle. Interior is about a 7/10, no rips/tears in seats.
Not a new car, but very good shape overall considering the year.
Potential issues:
The car leaks about 1 qt every 6 weeks. I had it checked out and it could be fixed, I have just checked it consistently and it has been fine for the past 6 months.
Tires have seen about 30k on them, should be changed in the next few months to a year.
Exhaust has a leak in the manifold.
Clean NYS title with inspection until February. Subarus like this will serve for another 100K miles. Been checked out by my mechanic in June, deemed in great mechanical shape.
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A car writer's year in new vehicles [w/video]
Thu, Dec 18 2014Christmas is only a week away. The New Year is just around the corner. As 2014 draws to a close, I'm not the only one taking stock of the year that's we're almost shut of. Depending on who you are or what you do, the end of the year can bring to mind tax bills, school semesters or scheduling dental appointments. For me, for the last eight or nine years, at least a small part of this transitory time is occupied with recalling the cars I've driven over the preceding 12 months. Since I started writing about and reviewing cars in 2006, I've done an uneven job of tracking every vehicle I've been in, each year. Last year I made a resolution to be better about it, and the result is a spreadsheet with model names, dates, notes and some basic facts and figures. Armed with this basic data and a yen for year-end stories, I figured it would be interesting to parse the figures and quantify my year in cars in a way I'd never done before. The results are, well, they're a little bizarre, honestly. And I think they'll affect how I approach this gig in 2015. {C} My tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015 it'll be as high as 73. Let me give you a tiny bit of background about how automotive journalists typically get cars to test. There are basically two pools of vehicles I drive on a regular basis: media fleet vehicles and those available on "first drive" programs. The latter group is pretty self-explanatory. Journalists are gathered in one location (sometimes local, sometimes far-flung) with a new model(s), there's usually a day of driving, then we report back to you with our impressions. Media fleet vehicles are different. These are distributed to publications and individual journalists far and wide, and the test period goes from a few days to a week or more. Whereas first drives almost always result in a piece of review content, fleet loans only sometimes do. Other times they serve to give context about brands, segments, technology and the like, to editors and writers. So, adding up the loans I've had out of the press fleet and things I've driven at events, my tally for the year is 68 cars, as of this writing. Before the calendar flips to 2015, it'll be as high as 73. At one of the buff books like Car and Driver or Motor Trend, reviewers might rotate through five cars a week, or more. I know that number sounds high, but as best I can tell, it's pretty average for the full-time professionals in this business.
Recharge Wrap-up: Mazda, Subaru and Toyota PHEV, Nomadic Power grant
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In Subaru's crash test, performed at a Virginia laboratory that tests child seats on a device that speeds down a track and stops abruptly, the results show that devices such as dog tethers are prone to break in a crash, sending the dog rocketing into whatever is in front of it. Rather alarmingly, the organization reports a 100-percent failure rate. In other words, "None of the harnesses were deemed safe enough to protect both the dog and the humans in the event of an accident." Yikes.