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Transmissions be it auto or manual should last for the life of the car, there is no reason for them to ever break. Autos are more complex and far more likely to go wrong than a manual, if a manual breaks 99 percent of the time its down the owner, be it bodged gear shifts, neglect from fluid changes etc. The six-speed box on the Subaru is absolutely huge and 680bhp / 500lb ft of torque has been mentioned on scooby net forums, worn synchro’s look to be common on such power levels. A IS250 transmission would split in two with them figures. Many garages won’t even replace transmission oil on auto boxes as they don’t want to be liable for damage caused - CVT fluid in many cars is to last the life of the car which is just nonsense but many garages won’t touch it. All transmission fluid should be replaced at around 60/70K miles, auto or manual

The problem with this auto / manual debate is there are endless types of manual gearboxes - you need to drive different cars and get a feel for the different types of gearboxes available - everyone knows modern auto boxes shift faster than any human can blink but they will never replace that connection the driver has with the car itself as they push a button on the steering wheel and wait for the response, they don’t do anything else – and then there is this

Done an oil change yesterday, this is how it sounds on startup. Dont make em like they used to, with the hood down its just humming away, I drove quite a few diesel cars at work, the last one was new-ish Ford and the noise was quite horrible, I thought mdoern diesel cars were more refined

That explains it so, no need for a full-on motorsport diff for me, I was going to put on uprated transmission mounts on my car until I found out they make the car so loud inside, no chance can I put up with it. I think the side effect of many high-performance parts is NVH and longevity. One thing I like about the Legacy is that it’s like a Impreza STi for grown-ups, but with a more comfortable relaxed ride - I think that is what was used in the sales pitch - I wouldn’t get a STi as I need a daily and that won’t work plus it gathers too much attention for my liking

As with any new tech I would err on the safe side and see how it fares rather than diving in, espeically coming from China

With the charges garages do nowadays I seriously doubt you can get a LSD fitted that cheap, even an oil change is going into a few hundred quid nowadays I thought the IS250 has an open type? from my experience with the Subaru I wouldn’t be keen to drive any car with 400bhp plus that is without a LSD, I wouldn’t be driving it as enthusiastically as I would normally, you might not get the back end to kick on a roundabout with a IS250 but try that with a RWD car with over 400 horses and it will be a different story Don’t know what this clunky noise is about, they only do that is they are fubared then again there as so many types out there maybe others make a din, Subaru torsen ones make a noise alright if they are on their way out. If you put on matching tyres and get the diff fluid looked after etc they should last a long time – even driving the spare wheel can damage them that’s why its to be used on the front only

Costco at the weekend, £1.589/L for E5, cheapest I have had for some time. its 97 RON I think but good enough

It’s a bit odd then that you were driving your IS250 auto around a roundabout a ‘silly’ speed to see what difference an LSD would make or not – when I had my Lexus, I was unaware of what LSDs actually done and you won’t find out in half an hour driving around a roundabout in the wet, even a car equipped with LSD can spin out in such conditions. AWD gives you another trick up your sleeve however as more wheels are having traction on the road surface but really driving around a roundabout even in the wet is not a very good test to see is an LSD equipped car better – it’s the sum of parts, they will provide more grip/traction over a non-LSD equipped car – its what they are designed to do its why almost every performance car has a LSD fitted as a matter of principle - fitting a locking/torsen type LSD to a IS250 would cost £2k or more I would imagine

I had a manual IS250, I was in denial at the time I think as to how bad it was because any owner of a car is proud of what they own, but after getting the six speed Subaru it’s just night and day and unless you drive a 6 speed Subaru, or indeed a Honda or other car with a razor-sharp close ratio gear box you won’t understand – these keep the engine running to its peak in terms of changes between gears, maximising available torque –– the Subaru transmission can handle masses of torque so if you bodge a gear change are you will probably destroy the engine before the gearbox itself, its why you see them used in Subaru’s with 800bhp+ on drag strips

Drive a car with a real LSD and you will know the difference, the ISF moved from a e-diff to a mechanical in or around 2010, you need to drive a lot of cars to appreciate the difference and not base your judgment on a solitary car

I think the value for money are V8 Lexus and ignore the expert's saying that the world is ending

I have white line bushes, anti lift kit and the bilstein suspension which is stock. The handling is completely different than a Lexus IS250, apple's and oranges. It's great for country roads as it sticks to the road so well, driving in cities with horrible Cambodian type road surface and speed bumps every 500 yards in England, not so much you need to travel at a snail pace

It's a valid question, but to fully answer it you need to dive into LSDs and understand the role they play, the torsen type is explained here quite well. The Torsen is the ultimate performance differential. Combine a well balanced suspension package on your Mustang with a Torsen for incredible traction! The Torsen's unique torque-sensing ability keeps engine power going to the ground during changing traction conditions. The Torsen functions as an open differential as long as the amount of torque transmitted to each rear wheel remains equal. When one tire begins to lose traction, the Torsen instantly senses the change in torque being applied to the ground. The excess torque that cannot be delivered to the ground by the tire that is beginning to lose traction is delivered to the opposite tire, which has better traction and can take more torque. ..so when slippage occurs you will have traction applied to a wheel which would not occur in a non torsen equipped car. When you consider all the different elements of driving, weather, road conditions etc etc it's a very great thing to have on a car and why a 500 hp Jag XF without a LSD seems a bad idea. I've been driving my Subaru in torrential rain, monsoon type weather in speeds I wouldn't dare had I not the AWD setup with LSD etc I currently have and to see the difference LSD make's try taking off when the road is wet as opposed to continually driving around in circles

On the E5,E10 debate - my take is this. I only ever used E5 or whatever it was called back when I had my Lexus IS250 years ago, ditto to my Subaru - the Lexus was not mapped for this high RON stuff - dont think you can but my Subaru is. The Subaru drives wonderful for its relative high milage, 135k, need to roll down the window to hear it on idle and engine generally going fantastic and the Lexus was troubled free but arent they all - I had no problems with either cars and they all sailed through MOTs maybe its the mind playing games but this reliability is a plus to me and I will stick to this fuel and not some watered down stuff. I use fuel additive also, BG44K - maybe twice a year or so. To see how well your car is running you could look at the co2 emissions from MOT tets and cheak out long term fuel trim

To make you feel better, getting the corroded brakes repaired in said Merceds was over a grand, that figure now most likely 2 grand - not counting everything else that it needed! A car is only a money pit if you continually throw money at it, occasional splurts of money are acceptable. I had a Honda Accord before the Lexus and that was pretty good, I remember getting coilovers on it once in Scotland and a few months later doing a MOT and noticed a new-ish white BMW there on both occasions --> moneypit

I had a 2003 Mercedes CL55 AMG for a grand total for 4 weeks, I think it was no more than that - anyway, the car which itself was in or arouind 60-70K new back then, so over £100k now is now scrap and has been so for some time so yes, the LS400 unbelievable machine

Crazy car for the money, I saw someone on a EV forum today rattle on about leasing costs for a EV - BMW i4 or Audi Q4, whatever they are - 8K deposit and £700 p/m - so ca 17k over two years and hand the key back You could buy 2 of these 600hLs and they will last to way past 2030/40 - when the EV above might be paid off I am not a fan of a CVT but I think I could make an exception with this car

was thinking the same

1.52 for E5?

Plenty contextual and informative data exists from medical sources like FDA, CDC, European Medicine Agency and Vigiaccess The graph here Is a direct result of US senator that requested answers why military personnel were finding 500 percent increase in miscarriages amongst females 300 percent increase in cancer and... 1000 percent increase in neuro disorders ...after vaccines were rolled out The vaccines are effecively beta trials, Pfizer say so but they dont tell you this do they? the trial is to end in January 2023 so thats 2 years of being basically a lab rat - the government statement of 15 covid deaths up to January 2022 will be queried when the data is released - maybe they will answer my FOA request then and adjust it accordingly. Hence why the are under a strict NDA - and why they are black listing medical personnel on social media now who are also asking questions - Nobody is allowed ask questions, when NDAs are attached there will always be caveats - say something that goes against the 'guidelines' and you fall foul The excess deaths from the ONS are around 1 thousand a week, yet people who believe in the covid vaccines refuse to attribute any of these deaths due to vaccines that are not clincicaly tested, the omicron vaccines were rolled out with no trials at all All the data is funded by third parties - all of it And the energy war is pretty much the same, the fact its called an energy war says as much as you need to know -President Volodymyr Zelensky is raking in the funds from this 'war' Covid has cost the UK taxpayer around half a trillion pounds The Energy companies expecting ca 100 billion annual profits - not forgetting we are in a energy crisis Russia getting 158 billion dollars in energy exports since the 'war' Pfizer will post over 100 billion profits in 2022, a level of revenue unheard of in the pharma industry, thats just Pfizer - Modernna who never made any drugs before covid are probably running out of room to store the money they made The new PM Liz meeting Zelensky so soon in Kiev - nothing will be in our favour whatever the outcome

I havent got E5 cheaper since May 2022, 1.68L back then

VigiAccess, European medicine agency, VAERS database, NEJM and other medical outlets are a more reliable source of information than the 15 brown envelope deaths and no covid damage payments. Because they don’t know the answer from our UK Government I asked you to query the FDA and CDC covid data to the government and see what they say

It’s there for all to see, if you rely on mainstream new outlets, you won’t find it, no more that you will find out net zero carbon neutral data on the BBC that says combustion engines are responsible for 10 percent of global greenhouse gas. They will however give you data on tail pipe emissions of buses, combustion cars and electric cars.

I am not surprised at that since you dont look for it and rely on BBC and Government data funded by third parties like Pfizer and co, of course they will tell you the good stuff There is, but you are in denial like others and some are so far gone the penny is probably never going to drop

The thing is, no matter what one says you will not change your mind into thinking there is a smidgeon of possibility that something is a bit awry with covid, 19. We originally promised 2 jabs and back to normal, not 5 jabs, and the boosters are not ‘boosters’ they are more ‘jabs’ All Government data is frivolous lies - that’s why they are not answering my query as they don’t know what to say - how can they, they said 15 are dead up to January 2022 The new booster is updated to fight off emerging viruses, what are they fighting off? nothing has even emerged yet...unless they come up with a new variant. PCR initial tests data was developed late in 2019 without even using a pure covid 19 sample - it’s like saying there is a twin turb V8 under the hood of my car without even looking to see. The ingredients are widely different between different manufacturers, with no consistency in 2 of 5 samples only saline is used – a good placebo / eye drop substitute for lucky people. Other samples have graphenhydroxid and spike proteins and one of the others toxic garbage. The very toxic ones are monitored by military and are the reason the vaccines need to be stored at sub-zero temperatures with a short shelf life https://www.vigiaccess.org/ This site has all the bad news on covid vaccines - which you Shouldn’t need to refer to in fairness, the CDC and FDA data should be sufficent. All the government brown envelope data is no use. Insanity is making the same mistake over and over and over expecting a different result. Sounds familiar