Oil Filter Price
08 July 2005, 10:28 PM
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Oil Filter Price
Proper Subaru Oil Filter = £4:44 + VAT ....... £5:22!!
Bloody Hell .... thats cheaper than a Ford or Vauxhall, I would guess??
Excellent!
Pete
Bloody Hell .... thats cheaper than a Ford or Vauxhall, I would guess??
Excellent!
Pete
08 July 2005, 11:16 PM
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Ha i got mine for free, gratis, nowt, nothing. And its a genuine Subaru item, those nice people at Subarus marketing department sent them out to independent garage and parts suppliers to encourage them to use more genuine Subaru parts.
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08 July 2005, 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Proper Subaru Oil Filter = £4:44 + VAT ....... £5:22!!
Bloody Hell .... thats cheaper than a Ford or Vauxhall, I would guess??
Excellent!
Pete
Bloody Hell .... thats cheaper than a Ford or Vauxhall, I would guess??
Excellent!
Pete
If so, please do not overfill the sump.
Next is changing plugs.
You'll get there and then wonder why you handed all that cash over to dealers!
09 July 2005, 02:25 AM
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Yeah they suck you in with the cheap filter and then sting you with the pads, discs, cambelt, cambelt idlers, cambelt tensioners, o2 sensor, MAF.,..etc etc. 
...especially when Subaru anounce a 58% reduction on prices*
*= on selected items which you never need to buy or were already cheap in the first place
...especially when Subaru anounce a 58% reduction on prices*
*= on selected items which you never need to buy or were already cheap in the first place
09 July 2005, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by NotoriousREV
I hope you're soaking it in oil ready for fitting next month? 
I am practising disconnecting the Crank-Sensor daily ....
I am also learning the Subaru Morris Dance so I can be assured of a 'proper' Oil Change!!
Pete
09 July 2005, 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by tath
will you be changing your own pads or is this not an issue?
Clearly the Subaru parts will last, at least, another 5 years and 60,000miles in my hands (which is quite an attractive proposition!) ...... but, the 3rd party parts are 1/3rd the cost!?
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09 July 2005, 09:46 AM
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Of course Pete, the risk you run with fitting OEM parts is that in the *many* years since the last/first change, the quality of parts may have worsened!!! 
(It's happened with my last sofa, cost £3K and is threadbear after 8 years!!! I remember when sofas would last 20 years!!! Why oh WHY don't they last anymore)
So you run the risk of not having ANY comeback by not having it all fitted by an authorised mechanic
If that doesn't bother you, then get yourself some 3rd party stuff
Shame they don't to a 3rd party MAF eh
Dan
(It's happened with my last sofa, cost £3K and is threadbear after 8 years!!! I remember when sofas would last 20 years!!! Why oh WHY don't they last anymore)So you run the risk of not having ANY comeback by not having it all fitted by an authorised mechanic
If that doesn't bother you, then get yourself some 3rd party stuff
Shame they don't to a 3rd party MAF eh
Dan
09 July 2005, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ScoobyDoo555
Shame they don't to a 3rd party MAF eh
Dan
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If I weren't so bloody honest I could make BIG money out of this scare tactic!!
All I would need do is offer a reconditioning service, hand in your old MAF - you get back a 'cleaned' one ..... re-set the ECU so some remarkable difference is noticed and charge £50 for the service!!
The old ones would be cleaned up with brake cleaner and shrink-wrapped ..... I would make a mint!!
Also, if Subaru sell them for £70 - that means they probably cost Subaru £5 - that means they cost about £1 to make ................ not going to be much inside them is there now?
Has anyone opened up a MAF? I would guess that its easily repairable (if it was ever faulty that is!)
Pete
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09 July 2005, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Sub69
Just make sure you buy the correct oil filter type, my car is now parked up, immobilsed with no oil in it until Monday...
Well last year it was part number .......................80
This one is ......................................100
Or the other way round - I questioned it and the parts guy assured me that it was right!!
Pete
09 July 2005, 11:55 PM
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Careful Pete, there's a big difference in the filtration particulate size between the N/A and Turbocharged models...and then there are the EG33 and EZ30 engines to consider (different again) and that Subaru changed the Filter design for the Turbo model about 2 years ago (it's now a much smaller cartridge than it used to be)...you really are entering a minefield when it comes to servicing the car yourself, with the right parts!
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Originally Posted by Tim W
Careful Pete, there's a big difference in the filtration particulate size between the N/A and Turbocharged models...and then there are the EG33 and EZ30 engines to consider (different again) and that Subaru changed the Filter design for the Turbo model about 2 years ago (it's now a much smaller cartridge than it used to be)...you really are entering a minefield when it comes to servicing the car yourself, with the right parts!
if you thread the wrong one on you could get swarf in your oil
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