Bought my 2013 Subaru WRX in Wooster, OH on June 21 2025.
Been loosely looking for an AWD vehicle with a manual transmission since I applied to University of Colorado Boulder. I found this 5-speed WRX in Wooster Ohio, 5 hours away from me. I believe, from factory, it should make about 250 horsepower, nothing crazy but still plenty to have fun with!
Having little experience with manual transmissions, I drove up with my cousin Jonathan. When I test drove the car it went very well! I ended up trading in my current car (2018 Mazda 6) and left with Ronda.
I bought my car a week before I was supposed to go to my friend’s wedding on June 28. I tasked myself to add an aftermarket radio to have Apple CarPlay and Bluetooth functionality,
This was the first big soldering project I undertook. I had to wire together a custom wire harness to adapt the radio wires to work with my Subaru. This is the only picture I have from 3 days before the wedding of the work.
I completed the harness and had to do the last bit of soldering physically in the car. I also had to run a camera wire from all the way from the hatchback, through gromits, around trim pieces, under carpet, and hooked into the harness. And everything worked!
One day when it was heavily raining, I heard a squeak in my clutch pedal that I hadn’t heard before. I initially chalked it up to the humidity that day because it was raining exceptionally hard and also the fact these cars just make noises.
Turns out this is actually a catastrophic issue I needed addressed! Basically, the spot welds that hold the clutch pedal in the frame are not strong enough and will break after a while, causing the squeaking, visible movement in the brake pedal, hesitation starting, and long term losing your clutch pedal.
There exists a bolt kit (this bolt kit) from Humble Rumble to replace the spot welds, I had that done sometime in November and never had a problem since. Anyone having this problem needs to get it fixed, Subaru did not do a recall!
At the end of March 2026, I moved to Colorado! Specifically Louisville CO from Louisville KY.
I set out with Jonathan on a cross country odyssey in a U-Haul. We stopped outside of St. Louis, somewhere in the middle of Kansas, and made it to Louisville on the third day but had to stay in a hotel because my place still wasn’t ready, moved in on the fourth day.
Since I’ve moved to Colorado, I have been involved in an accident. I was sideswiped going through an intersection (yay… fun…) and am still working on getting that fixed.
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