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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    No worries, welcome to the forum. Here in northern Sweden, where everyone has a light bar or extra lamps hooked up the high beam, you can buy complete wiring kits. For example, the selection from the Mekonomen chain of auto parts stores...
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    Good wiper blades for Nordic conditions?

    Time to replace the blades on my 2019 Levorg. Wondered if any Nordic members of the forum could make some suggestions... willing to pay a bit for quality, looking for blades that can deal with our cold winters. Many thanks.
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    Summertime updates. The SSD Performance Light Bar comes with a US-dimensioned backing plate for the reg plate. The 520x120mm European plate and its plastic holder overhung this backing plate. As a result I lost one driving in deep snow back in the winter, and two weeks ago broke another plastic...
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    Headlight washers - plastic face plates detached

    Hej all. Removing the front bumper a few months ago to install a structural bar for rally lamps, I neglected to remove the body-coloured pieces of trim that are basically cover plates for the two headlight washers. When the washers are operated, the stem protrudes forward out of the bumper...
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    Autocar: Subaru staying in Europe despite 2020 "disaster"

    Agreed. I read somewhere that some critical aspect of the Levorg was designed from ground up for the American market, and yet the car was never sold there. Perhaps Subaru USA are afraid a smaller wagon would cannibalise the strong sales of the more profitable Forester and Outback? If 90% + of...
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    Autocar: Subaru staying in Europe despite 2020 "disaster"

    If there’s one thing the boss seems to get right, it’s that Subaru’s image in the UK is still defined by the rally driving, STi and WRX. People still associate Subaru with those high performance cars and the (ahem) people who drive them. Here in northern Sweden, it’s completely different...
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    Autocar: Subaru staying in Europe despite 2020 "disaster"

    There's a strange article in Autocar (UK motoring magazine) - stange because the by-line of the interview with International Motors boss John Hurtig seems to suggest IM are responsible for importing Subaru to all of continental Europe (it's just the UK, Ireland and Nordics). I think the bigger...
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    South East London

    Welcome! Lots of Australian members have found solutions engineered and manufactured over there, but I look forward to hearing what you find in London. I'm in northern Europe but will return to Brexitland some time in the next few years. I suspect there is more expertise there for fixing the...
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    UK levorg updates

    Crikey. Didn't know it was that bad. It was 1,658 units in Sweden 2020/1-2020/12 (including just 1 Levorg), for a country with a population 1/6th of the UK.
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    UK levorg updates

    It's the same here in Sweden: right now, all we get are the XV, Forester, and Outback. The MY2022 Levorg will return, because after Volvo Subaru's biggest competition here is the Volkswagen Group. The Forester competes with the Golf Alltrack / Octavia Scout, while the Forester and Outback...
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    Anyone towing with their Levorg

    I have a 2019MY non-turbo 2.0. The towbar is by Witter and fitted by a third-party auto-shop. In Sweden (even in small cities) it's really hard to rent a panel van. Most retailers (Ikea, MediaMarkt, K-Rauta, Mio, hardware stores, furniture stores, etc) will usually let you rent a free box or...
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    Some further updates. Firstly I didn't think my car had headlight washers, so when I neglected to remove the headlight washer caps before I removed the bumper. They fall off in the process, but when I came to put them back I assumed I had broken them, so taped them back on while waiting for a...
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    Spent the weekend in the shop assembling the hardware for the lamps. It took about a month, and a hefty customs duty invoice, but here is the bar as ordered from SSD Performance. The product is designed for US-spec cars, so comes with a license plate mount dimensioned for a US plate. Removing...
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    A further question, ahead of this weekend's (planned) installation: does the Levorg have positive-current or negative-current beams? Thanks
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    Just to update the thread, the SSD Performance bar is on order and making it’s way from Missouri to Sweden. Next I need to choose some lamps. Norrlanders like to fit three big lamps on their cars: two wide beams and one longer “pencil” beam. However the SSD bar has four evenly spaced mounts, so...
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    Nordic members: winter driving lights

    Still considering my options here, and made aware of the rally light nudge bars made by SSD in Lincoln, Missouri. They retail for USD199, but shipping and import taxes to Sweden will make it quite expensive. However, they have a really neat and strong bar that mounts to the crash bar. Only...
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    Changing summer/winter wheels - does TPMS make this difficult?

    Thanks everyone, especially Toxy for the photograph, which confirms what I have found out. I made a trip into the city yesterday afternoon and chatted to a couple of tyre fitters and a mechanic at the Subaru dealer where I bought the car. Because it was an ex-demo-car he was pretty confident he...
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    Changing summer/winter wheels - does TPMS make this difficult?

    Ok, more complicated than I thought. The car was a demonstrator at the dealer from August 2019 until I bought it in January 2020. It came with two sets of Subaru wheels, so perhaps there are two sets of valves and TPMS monitors in them?
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    Changing summer/winter wheels - does TPMS make this difficult?

    We are barrelling through autumn in northern Sweden and approaching winter when we will be required to change to winter tyres. My MY2019 Levorg car was sold with two sets of wheels, and last winter was spent in the city where we did just fine with Nokian studless tyres. Now we live more rurally...
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    Driver-facing wing mirror repeater lights: different fuse?

    Hello everyone. The small driver-facing repeater indictor signals on the inside of the wing mirrors of my MY2019 Levorg have stopped working. The repeaters on the front-facing sides of the wing mirrors are working, however. Might they be on a different circuit which needs a new fuse? This...
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