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Magna Forester

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  1. Me again🙄 Right, the rear sensor was pretty much seized. The switch itself and the alloy dog bone linkage. I replaced it with what appears to be a good used unit. I replaced the alloy dog bone linkage on the front sensor. I found a seller on eBay who supplies OEM linkages. They are not cheap, at about a third of the price of a new switch from eBay, but they are good. Anyhow, do I need to do anything to reintialise the system in any way, or should it all just work…? Again, thank you for your time.
  2. Well, I found control module… …so, with the engine running I unplugged it, no dash warning light. Plugged it back in and the light came on for 5 seconds… The warning light does not come on and then go out after approximately 3 seconds when I start the car as the handbook states. As a mechanical engineer I'm afraid I understand very little about electronics, but my gut tells me it's the control module and luckily (or not) there is one with matching numbers to mine for not too much money on eBay…
  3. Further to this, I took the car to TDR in Warwick yesterday and they tested everything and the links are intact. They unplugged each sensor in turn which made the dash warning come on. they said it would be very rare for both headlight motors to fail. As the next step I am going to swap out the control module, but can somebody point me to where this is actually located on an SH Forester…? Many thanks I meant to say, TDR were most helpful and wouldn’t let me pay them for the time they spent on it.
  4. Thank you Mr B, at least I know what to look at first now…
  5. Hi all, 2008 SH Forester XS I don't think the self levelling is working as Subaru intended. The beam pattern is closer to the car than it used to be and sometimes they seem to creep down during the initial part of a journey. So, I'm guessing it not the motors themselves, but whatever controls them and because there is a fault it's going to a default setting as not to dazzle other road users… Anyone come across this before and is it an easy fix? Thank you in advance.
  6. According to the average mpg display on the dash of my 08 (SH) 2.0 n/a Forester I got up to 38 mpg driving to work the other day. 25 miles along A roads. It's an auto too… i've only had it a couple of weeks, so can't comment on parts and serving costs yet…
  7. Thought I'd share a photo of my new (to me) Forester.
  8. Thank you for the welcome. I'm picking it up next Friday, it's from a main dealer where I went to look at one I'd seen on Autotrader, but ended up buying another that hadn't come up in my initial search…
  9. Good evening from rainy Warwickshire. Paid a deposit on an 08 Forester 2.0 XS earlier today. After 5 years I'm migrating from the green oval…
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