A couple of videos I've watched suggest pouring an extra quart of oil through the engine once you've drained it to flush out as much old oil as possible, so that might help while using the ramps. It's probably overkill to some extent, but I'll probably do it because I plan on having this car for...
Coming from a Subaru Forester (had to sell my WRX in '20 when I moved to the city), the LF4 is going to be a wild ride for me. I'll have a smidge of V8 envy, and maybe down the road I'll buy a used 5BW to add to the collection.
I'd be curious to hear from someone who has driven both hard how the 5BW corners vs the 4BW. I've been unconsciously assuming the 4BW was more elegance and the 5BW was more beast.
This is ultimately why I chose to order. I could probably negotiate a price down to the mid $70's, but that's nearly $9K over the price I'm getting for the '25 that I ordered with the things I actually care about.
Hilariously I think it's actually easier to find deals on the '24 5BW vs. the '24 4BW right now. There just aren't many manual 4's on the market that aren't the grossly overpriced special versions or the $90K optioned cars (if my budget were that high I'd just spend a bit extra to get the 5BW)...
Car is listed as "in transit" by the chatbot. To this point have not received a note from my dealership yet, and I don't see it listed online anywhere quite yet.
For what it’s worth, I finally got to test drive the manual yesterday as the dealer I go to had one come in. Holy shit.
Last month or so of waiting is going to be killer.
I have a thread that I’ve been doing detailing my experience with ordering Here for your timing estimation. I ordered and August and my car got produced on Monday. I’m probably 5-8 weeks from seeing it.
I just went through all this research as I ordered in August. Long story short, if you order you should expect MSRP, I managed to find moderate-large dealers willing to do MSRP with 0 down on order as long as you get a spec they can sell if you back out (so no yellow). If you're extremely lucky...
Given this is a specialty car, it wouldn't shock me if the QA process was a bit more involved than for the Ram. The QA folks testing the Rams have a massive amount of experience going through that check list.
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