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You know you are a 4x4 Driver when...
You stop and look at any old rusty heap thinking, "parts vehicle...."
Your rig has more farm/boat/military/other vehicle manufacturer equipment than OEM parts
The weatherman says "Stay in, it's dangerous" and you think "Time to go 4 wheel driving!"
You're happy that you can't use 1st gear in the street
A military convoy passes by and you only look at the axles, tyres and antennas
You take your other half out to look at new home construction sites
so you can drive on the unfinished roads and sand piles
You have enough straps, chains, rope, etc in your rig to keep the
HMAS ANZAC docked during a cyclone
You can break down on the road, fix the problem and get back on the road
without calling the N.R.M.A
The N.R.M.A. guy breaks down, you can stop and fix his problem and get back on the road
You have a brand new set of tyres, but you keep looking at the tyre ads anyway
You'll drive 2 days at 1000 kilometres a day
so you can spend 2 more days driving at 5 kilometres per day
You get really “bleeped” off because you spent over an hour to go 10 kilometres home on Friday,
but are grinning from ear to ear because
you spent 6 hours going 4 kilometres on your favourite track on Saturday
You set your rig up to have a top speed of 100-105 km/h on purpose
When you pull up next to a Ferrari and all the Ferrari driver can see is
tyres and whatever is on the other side of you
You challenge the Ferrari driver to a race .... If you can pick the course
You spend three hours mowing the lawn contemplating how your ride on mower
would look and handle with a 3" lifted, 5 link coil over suspension, Swampers,
having the engine turboed, intercooled and blueprinted .... does Safari make a kit for Briggs and Stratton?
What about a K&N air filter??
You pray for rain because tomorrow is your day off and the track is to dry
You carry a tape measure in your vehicle and measure up other peoples vehicles,
to the amusement of onlookers and interest of police.
You crawl underneath the front suspension of someone else's car in the car park to see
how he got that extra inch of ground clearance over you.....
A guy in a 4wd pulls up next to you and you say, mine is bigger than yours
and for once in your life you don’t get belted.
Instead of taking a playboy to the dunny, you take a copy of 4wd monthly
You wash your pride and joy just so you can see how good it looks dirty
When you can only name 2 state premiers but at least 15 different tyre manufacturers.
When you don't need to tint the inside of your vehicle's windows
because the outside is already covered with stickers from the places you've visited.

Ha ha. Funny shizzle.

They got one of these going on the Ultimate Subaru forums - you know youre a Subaru Owner when...

GTlegs wrote:you know youre a Subaru Owner when...

you change your driveshafts at every oil change interval....
you don't replace your gearbox oil at regular intervals....you replace the gearbox....
you use as much fuel in your 1.8L subaru as a 4.8L nissan patrol...

shall i go on??

You know you are a 4x4 Driver when...

You haven't exited a carpark in the normal fashion for years, instead driving out over the gardens & kerbs
You can't hear emergency vehicle sirens over the road noise of your tyres
You can't see them out the back window either
You slap a "Diesel" sticker on your fuel cap to provide an excuse to the cops for all the oil burning smoke - and it works
Your local DIY carwash operator runs out and tells you to get lost on sight - muddy car or not.


That's all I can think of now, I'll have some more later maybe

You know you're obsessed with old Subarus when you are so busy looking at an almost totally standard L series wagon but with fat tyres that you nearly crash your work van on the freeway.

(I may or may not have done that today).

You know you are a subaru driver when you buy a sub woofer, heaps of speakers, varoius amps and an expencive head unit not for rice factor, but to drown out the noise of those bloody ticking tappets.

AndrewT wrote:You know you're obsessed with old Subarus when you are so busy looking at an almost totally standard L series wagon but with fat tyres that you nearly crash your work van on the freeway.

(I may or may not have done that today).

Ha ha, nearly done just that today. I nearly drove into the lady in the next lane while looking across the lanes to look at , yep a lifted L-series.
If I was going to use an excuse, I would have told the truth, cos I dont anyone else would understand anyway!

You know you are a Subaru freak when...
you can tell any type of subaru just from a glance as is whizzes past you on the freeway...

You walk slowly across a crossing just so you can marvel at the oncoming car

You can't help but do a Subaru count on every long trip you take. And it's usually not out of boredom or just trying to stay awake, you genuinely want to!

You find yourself staring at the AWD's parked on the wet, grassy and muddy areas of the UNI carpark when there is no where else to park and thinking you can do it to until you look down and realise the logo on your steering wheel doesn't look like quite right!


When you walk through the carpark and see an old maroon liberty sedan and for a minute marvel at your wonderful car until you realise that again the logo doesn't look quite right!
(yes my Toyota is maroon!)

When you are at UNI and you are supposed to be studying, you are on the Subaru website...

You drive past Subaru's for sale and look longingly as you drive past. Then when you do you wipe the drool from your chin, slap the steering wheel and yell WHY COULDN"T YOU JUST BE NORMAL???
(directed at the car!)

While repeateldy getting stuck on a hill in a traffic jam and moving 1m every minute you wish you had a hill holder brake...(I have sooooo had enough of hill starts)

Anyways, back to my drooling...


OOPS I mean studies!!!

SubyDreams wrote:You know you are a Subaru freak when...

you roll a tyre off a rim at stockton...

Lightning_Silver_RX wrote:When you can only name 2 state premiers but at least 15 different tyre manufacturers.

That just about sums me up... 8O

Theres a thread on USMB that's gone on for over 5000posts. Something like "You know your a subie owner if". Wanna beat the record?