Sadly I've parted ways with my JETTA GLI. happily I've taken home a turbocharged loaded subaru forrester! Happy! More to come on this subject.....
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Sadly I've parted ways with my JETTA GLI. happily I've taken home a turbocharged loaded subaru forrester! Happy! More to come on this subject.....
So I loved my GLI but it had some quality issues from where it was built. It wasn't a german assembled model like my last Jetta it was built south of the border. Due to this, I believe it was having some interior quality issues and my A/C compressor was on it's last leg (which is a known issue that plagued this model). It was an awesome car to drive and super fun though.
I went to a local dealer that had a good deal on a Subaru forrester that I believed had a few features but wasn't a fully loaded one. It was a 2011 with 5400 miles on it. I drove it and it was alright but it was actually a super plain base model. It was dissapointing coming from a loaded turbo german sedan. I saw another one on the lot and asked about it. It was a 2009 XT limited model. (the T designates the Turbo!!) It had 20k miles on it and a clean service history. It's fully loaded except navigation. Has leather, power seats, leather steering wheel, heated seats, heated windshield wipers even so they don't stick to the Window when things ice over.
It's basically the WRX with a forrester body actually so it's quite peppy.
Here's a pic:
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Looks good man I hope you have fun with it
Nice! At least you didn't downgrade to a crappy jap sedan. I wouldn't mind having a wrx with more room.
Thanks guys. ive already ordereda tuner and new k and n filter to get about 65 extra ft/lbs and 25hp. I love turbos! too easy to modify.
Going to stiffen the chassis after that and the go for an up pipe and down pipe. ill have about 300 hp then when I change the tune. all sti wrx parts fit this baby.
I decided to make a final repair to the somewhat still present clunking noise from changing out the shocks. Most people experience the clunking when swapping to the bilstein 5150s and here is my permenant cure to the issue. First I decided that the hole was much too large where the bolt first went through so I decided to use my welder to weld on a more precise hole with t 1/2" large stainless fender washer. Here's what it looked like after welding it in place.
It's a little messy (i don't claim to make pretty welds) but it's on there pretty well.
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That solved the too large of a hole issue and gave the bolt more support. I removed the nylon bushings that I had previously smashed into place before. Next, the bolt itself was a bit smaller than the bushing on the bilsteins so i figured i'd tighten it up a bit by taking some electrical tape and making one wrap around the non threaded portion. This tightened everything up and I have no movement at all in my shock mounts now. Glad that's done.
Now i've got to replace that bushing that's on the front differential that makes the popping noise when putting it in gear/taking pressure on and off the drive train rapidly (such as selecting first and pulsing the gas rapidly making the vehicle surge and slow down). Anyone remember the part number or proper description of that bushing?
I'm trying to fix a few little issues before going back to the east coast in february for training.
Im not sure on the part number but I'll be heading over to the dealer tonight for the same thing. My differential bushings are shot and I get the clunk. You have the same XK I have so ill get you the part number later today.