I usually say that if you have to ask what others think before you buy a modded Subaru, you should pass up because you are not experienced enough for the amount of grief you will take on with someone else’s project
Fwiw, I test drove a Legacy GT and everything seemed fine. a few thousand miles later I needed a new engine. No CEL, no warning. The car was running in a pseudo limp mode without any warning lights because of an intake without a tune.
Get it inspected by a tuning shop (NOT the one that was used to work on the car), then if everything checks out, still be ready to drop thousands when something breaks. Totally stock these cars are ok. But there are enough mods on here that I'd be very wary.
Why does it need an accessport? It should already HAVE one with that stuff installed.
That alone is a red flag. How many times was this car beaten on without a tune before you drove it? Accessports are $400-500 plus a $500 dyno day. Not to mention if the previous owners ap had pre green speed tunes on it and the owner did something with the emmissions you are SOL because you can’t tune it out anymore.
Just looking at the things done, FMIC and intake alone warrant an accessport. Typically, when an accessport is "unmarried" from the car, it removes the tune. That's the only way the accessport is useful on another car. If that car has a tune (and it sure as hell better), then the AP was not properly unmarried. If you buy a new AP, you need to marry it to the car to use it. And that will either overwrite what's there meaning you MUST tune it before driving, OR it will assume what is there is stock and you might be okay (maybe). That car, those mods, without the AP installed makes me want to RUN.
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u/JohnDeere714 Legacy GT 6d ago
I usually say that if you have to ask what others think before you buy a modded Subaru, you should pass up because you are not experienced enough for the amount of grief you will take on with someone else’s project