Thank you for the reply. The tires had the inner row of tread worn to cords. To close this thread I'll report that I changes both control arms that had soft rear bushings and loose, but no play, ball joints. I think the alignment was changing badly on hard cornering because of the softened rubber in...

Hello all, We have a 2012 S60R with 235-40-18 Super Sport tires. They have been wearing badly on the inside edges of the fronts. I saw this at the end of last summer and dialed in more toe-in to move the wear out farther and rotated the tires this spring. The rears that are now on the front had even...

Hello all,

Well we did install a new alt. in my friend's Subie and the voltage stays in the 13V range while idling and all the AC stuff running. The clutch now cycles perfectly!

Thanks again for all the great info on this forum.

It does sound like you paid allot for the parts. eeuroparts lists the belt and both pulleys for $140. But repair shops do mark up the prices. As far as having the belt fail in 2k mi I would think that is a workmanship issue. If the bearing in the new pulley was not good it would have still lasted mo...

Hi all, first post here. I would like to thank all the contributors to the forum, they have been most helpful. My in-law's S80 developed AC trouble in that after running for 10 minutes the clutch would not reengage. It has 70K, 2.9 auto. Reading most of the posts for this issue I was lead to believe...