{"id":8502,"date":"2025-06-08T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2025-06-08T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T19:11:02","slug":"pearl-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2025\/06\/08\/pearl-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two blown engines and I am more of a Subaru fanboi than ever. (Weird. Weird.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MrSubaru1387\/videos\">So is this guy<\/a>, and he knows two or three times what I do, or likely ever will. <\/p>\n<p>From watching him and others, I&#8217;m getting more knowledgeable over time anyway. <\/p>\n<p>What I end up buying, whether it&#8217;s an old one to get the manual transmission, or a new one to get the sweet new hybrid engine (and\/or Wilderness badging and perqs), that&#8217;ll be a product of my learning and evolving as time goes by. <\/p>\n<p>That old 2002 RME probably hasn&#8217;t sold yet, and if there was a way to lay hands on it for $7500 and do the timing belt and water pump for another $3K all at once, it might be close to the perfect solution, but &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a way. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the van will sell tomorrow and there suddenly will be. <\/p>\n<p>About such things, none of us knows anything. <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invaluable Resources Dump<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cars101.com\">cars101<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cars.com\/car-warranty\/money\/best-extended-car-warranty-plans\/\">old-car warranties<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.subaru.com\/vehicle-info\/articles\/what-is-subaru-x-mode.html\">what is x-mode<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.subaru.com\/shopping-tools\/special-offers.html?model=FOR-OBK-ASC\">Special finance, Subaru Certified Pre-Owned used vehicles 2025-2020 model years<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.subaru.com\/shopping-tools\/special-offers.html?model=FOR-OBK-ASC\">leasing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.subarumotorsfinance.com\/lease-end\/purchase\">lease to buy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease-1024x401.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"255\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-8503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease-1024x401.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease-768x301.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease-600x235.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/subulease.png 1295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two blown engines and I am more of a Subaru fanboi than ever. (Weird. Weird.) So is this guy, and he knows two or three times what I do, or likely ever will. From watching him and others, I&#8217;m getting more knowledgeable over time anyway. What I end up buying, whether it&#8217;s an old one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8504,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}