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My son is looking to purchase another 'ru' with a stick to teach himself how to drive a stick.

We found one online that states the head gaskets were done at 195k by the previous owner but cannot verify.

My question is how can i tell or can I tell if it was done?

 

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mace

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What's the car? On most of those boxer engines you can pretty easily actually SEE the headgasket just popping the hood. However aside from a visual inspection there's really no way to tell without taking it apart, in which case you have to put a new one on anyways :)

 

Head gaskets / Timing Belt & Waterpump are your most common issues and HAVE to be addressed every 100k or you are just begging for a motor to get wiped out. Speaking from experience of many dead Subaru

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Legacy GT is a pretty nice car, the wagons are spiffy and extremely functional. As others have noted you should be able to tell a lot on these cars just from a visual inspection. Unfortunately the timing you really can't but other gaskets should point towards work that had been done recently.
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Don't buy a bugeye wrx with a stick to learn to drive stick on. Trans is weak as wet toilet paper.

 

I don't think that is true for stock cars.

 

I owned 2 '02 WRXs for many many years and never had any issues with the transmissions.

 

I didn't modify the cars, but I wasn't super easy on them. They held up just fine.

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I don't think that is true for stock cars.

 

I owned 2 '02 WRXs for many many years and never had any issues with the transmissions.

 

I didn't modify the cars, but I wasn't super easy on them. They held up just fine.

 

The 5 speeds have a bad reputation of having "glass cases" but as you say that's typically on modified ones. Most people turning out less than 280-300 don't really run into issues.

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