# Post a PIC of your latest purchase.

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**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-a-pic-of-your-latest-purchase/235672/15100 "2012-03-19T22:13:31Z")

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> [@Help me fight Diabetes!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/help-me-fight-diabetes/48730/9):
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> I’ve never owned a Subaru before so im all for advice nd suggestions
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> Cossey what were your bad experiences and were they due to increasing the power out of the motor or were they just normal issues you had to deal with?
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> Anything I need to watch out for in particular ? I don’t plan on driving the car hard nor do I plan or modding it… So it will stay a daily driver until I sell it or my brother gets it when he is old enough to drive.
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> As for selling the m5, I got alot of money out of it and paid cheap for this Subaru and have money left over to buy a bike which I have again and to still have money left in the bank. There was no need for an m5 as a daily driver for me. I still have the m3 for a nice summer car and we got a bike too

To determine if my experiences were due to increasing power output would be beyond my scope of knowledge. Here’s the issues I had when all I had was an exhaust and tune:

1. Blown turbo. This was caused from the oil return line bursting and draining the motor of oil. It’s common for the feed line to fail. Best bet is taking out the screen filter OUT of the line so the turbo gets more oil without resistance. Oil is filtered through your oil filter anyways, so if your line gets clogged, your oil filter isn’t doing it’s job.
2. Blown motor. This was from a spun bearing. Most likely cause was the motor being drained of oil one month prior due to issue #1. Just took time to off the motor.

Even when unmodded, factory pistons are like glass. They crack/break ringlands easily. On my 2nd motor, this is what failed, but I also had about 80whp more give or take.

Next up is the transmission. It is virtually the same as the WRX 5MT transmission, which, like the pistons, is made from glass. Or so it seems. This usually is an issue in 300-400whp+ cars, but with higher mileage, I do not foresee power being the main issue, but I may be wrong.

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