1998 Subaru Liberty RX Bilstein Edition (MY FIRST CAR!!)

[SL65]

What? 1 tank for me cost around $50 with premium... but I guess you drive to school everyday, that's the good thing about living about 3-4km away from uni... I drive if I have 1 class or can't be bothered, but most of the time I just walk

Yeah I go through a tank a week (50L) and I'm now filling up with 98 octane. Costs an arm and a leg though...

On the topic of the new laws - the placing of P-plates outside the car really pisses me off because I know my 'fancy' magnetic ones will be stolen AGAIN. Yes they've been stolen before, outside my school...

The nice mesh ones I pasted on the inside of the windows are now useless so I must chuck them away. The cheap plastic plate I was provided with doesn't have a proper place it can be put (like Hidden_Hunter's Integra) so I will have to use blu-tac or something.

No tolerance is overly harsh and all it'll do is make the 'inexperienced drivers' on our roads stare more at the speedo and less at the road. Honestly - when I do come across a speed camera, it scares me just how much I look at my speedo OVER how much I look at the road. I don't know about you, but I find it hard to balance both. Terrifically stupid law!

The peer restrictions will effect me because I play desig. driver sometimes Oh well...

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

SL65, I use the electrostatic P plates (my back one is always peeling off because of the angle (especially if you have the window down a smidgen on the freeway)

They only cost about $5 for a pair

 

[BlitzR]

I use a metal plate holder, just slide the plastic P plate in. It looks pretty clean but blocks half a reverse light and doesn't really stop anyone from taking it though it takes a bit to slide the plate out. Only have one for the back. Got to fabricate one for the front.

 

['CruiserMan]

Driving my Dad's Falcon, with the plate stuck on the lip of the bonnet(plastic bumper, number plate too close to wedge a plate under), the plate bailed at 70km/h. Annoying.

 

[Dav]

so I will have to use blu-tac or something.

dont put blue-tac on your car, even seen what it does to a painted wall if you leave it on for a while? it will rip the paint off.

and these new p-plate rules are stupid. think about it cause im sure the ppl that came up with them didnt.

lets say some people, 5 of them all on there p's wanna go catch a movie but wont be able to get back before 11 sp they take 3 cars. on the way back from the movie they all get stopped at a red light and being young they make a bit of a race out of it. if they where all in one car that wouldnt happen.

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

sucks to be in NSW D:

least when they changed our laws they only affected newly licensed P platers.

 

[BlitzR]

They could still race if they were in one car, they just have to put up 'for sale' signs up on their windows.

"This is an issue in which anecdotal evidence has been provided by the RTA that for sale signs on the back of cars are being used as a signal to gather at illegal street drag meetings," - NSW Premier Morris Iemma

least when they changed our laws they only affected newly licensed P platers.

They did that in NSW when the FI condition came into effect.

 

[watto]

SL65, I'm amazed you're going thru so much petrol each week! How far do you have to drive to school and what sort of l/100km is the Scooby doing?

I've got a 55L tank in the Golf and generally do 9-9.5/100km in the city. My best highway figure was about 7/100km

 

[andyhui01]

SL65, I use the electrostatic P plates (my back one is always peeling off because of the angle (especially if you have the window down a smidgen on the freeway)

They only cost about $5 for a pair

I believe I have the same one as you... mine has never fallen off (But I guess the entire back piece of the glass is flat)... those are the best and the fact that they can't be seen through the tinted glass makes it better (hopefully less trouble from the cops).

Just curious, any VIC people every got in trouble with cops because their P's couldn't be seen at night because of the tinted (legally) windows?

 

[Dav]

They could still race if they were in one car, they just have to put up 'for sale' signs up on their windows.

"This is an issue in which anecdotal evidence has been provided by the RTA that for sale signs on the back of cars are being used as a signal to gather at illegal street drag meetings," - NSW Premier Morris Iemma


They did that in NSW when the FI condition came into effect.

they just make shit up now i recon :lol:

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

I believe I have the same one as you... mine has never fallen off (But I guess the entire back piece of the glass is flat)... those are the best and the fact that they can't be seen through the tinted glass makes it better (hopefully less trouble from the cops).

Just curious, any VIC people every got in trouble with cops because their P's couldn't be seen at night because of the tinted (legally) windows?

nope, never had that issue and mine are barely visable

 

[SL65]

SL65, I'm amazed you're going thru so much petrol each week! How far do you have to drive to school and what sort of l/100km is the Scooby doing?

I've got a 55L tank in the Golf and generally do 9-9.5/100km in the city. My best highway figure was about 7/100km

I have a 50L tank and I usually always fill up with 3L to spare. Of that 47L's, I'm always getting around 330kms. That consists of boring/slow city driving. Between Monday and Friday, I would rarely even reach 70km/h...

 

[BlitzR]

Geez you go through alot of petrol, I think thats around 15L/100km your doing. Last year I was doing about 10L/100km combined in a 2.2L at about 320km a week.
To save you got to be light on the throttle, leave sport mode off and try not to exceed about 3000RPM.

 

[unknownspeedster]

subarus are very thirsty motors and cars, but even the tribecca with me driving (mr lead foot) averages about 14l/100 which gives me about 450km and the tribecca has the H6 motor, so ur as blitzR said make sure sports isnt on...hmmm

 

[watto]

I have a 50L tank and I usually always fill up with 3L to spare. Of that 47L's, I'm always getting around 330kms. That consists of boring/slow city driving. Between Monday and Friday, I would rarely even reach 70km/h...

Wow. That's bloody terrible consumption. Isn't there any good public transport near you? As has been pointed out, that's 15L/100km. Mum's 320i (the 6-cyl 2.2L) only does 12L/100km in the city.

Wow, I'm really amazed at how bad that consumption is

 

[BlitzR]

Another thing the 96? to 98 Liberty had a 60L tank not a 50L

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

Wow. That's bloody terrible consumption. Isn't there any good public transport near you? As has been pointed out, that's 15L/100km. Mum's 320i (the 6-cyl 2.2L) only does 12L/100km in the city.

Wow, I'm really amazed at how bad that consumption is

I don't understand how it could be using anywhere near that much, even the integra and my lead foot and holding gears doesn't register that high (and i'm flogging the thing) when I'm not flogging it i'm sitting in traffic that is litterally dead stopped (princes highway, monash freeway, ferntree gully road, springvale)

 

[SL65]

Yeah fuel consumption is crap. My daily commute involves lots of sitting in traffic with the climate control on Auto as I don't want the stinky outside air getting in. Believe it or not, I really do nanny the car! The roads I drive on during the week don't encourage me to flog the beast, instead I save that for the weekends when I cover most of the kms.

However that 330kms/47L average I gave you was an older stat. That was an average BEFORE my cars first major service under my ownership and I have since converted to filling up with 98 octane with which I'm averaging 355kms/47L.

I have achieved around 370kms on a highway run on regular unleaded - could probably get a lot more running on 98 octane...

Another thing the 96? to 98 Liberty had a 60L tank not a 50L

Yep true, but the previous owner had to change to a 50L tank...

I really do wish I had a 60L tank as sometimes I'm running on empty on the really expensive day of petrol (Thursday in Sydney) and could do with that extra range a bigger tank would give me.

 

[watto]

Yep true, but the previous owner had to change to a 50L tank...

Why? That just sounds dodgy.

 

[SL65]

Why? That just sounds dodgy.

Thats the first thing I said :lol:

But anyways - I recall it being something about it getting damaged on a high kerb after taking evasive action. It was in 2000 I think. I forget. But I had CheckIt (dunno if you know the company) perform an inspection of the vehicle. They specialise in inspecting for shoddy repair work because my initial thoughts were "it was involved in a bad crash where it got rear ended" however the inspection proved that the vehicle was in perfect condition and there was no evidence of it being involved in a crash before.