I've had my car out for just over a week now. I was pleased that it started without any problems and seemed to be working great after 9 months in storage. One thing I noticed was it was kind of vibrating a bit and making a funny sound when turning or starting to drive from a standstill. I thought the wheels were out of alignment and rubbing because of that. The past couple days it got worse and worse, and today it was crunching and making really bad noises so I took it into a local mechanic who lots of people highly recommend.. and a friend of mine works there. They looked at it and said the U-Joint on the rear axle is seized up. The Subaru's are sealed and you can't grease it yourself. The grease dried up or something and now when the engine turns it forces the metals to rub against each other and grind. He says it's still drivable for a little while, though I'm going to get it fixed right away anyway because I shouldn't drive it for long distances or fast.

The only place you can get parts for my car is through a Subaru dealership. He called the local dealership and found out they won't sell me a U-Joint on it's own. I have to buy the whole assembly including a drive shaft for $800 bucks.. plus pay labor!!! GRRRR I half expected that I'd have to spend a lot of money fixing something stupid after taking it out of storage, though my grandparents never have problems storing their cars for 6+ months at a time. I had saved up enough cash to pay the car off this month and the other day I almost paid it off, but got a feeling that I might just need that money for something else and decided to hang on to the cash for a couple weeks. Good job I did! I can get it fixed, it's just a real shame that this happened and that it costs so much to fix. Knowing the local Subaru dealership they won't place the order until next Tuesday and I won't see the parts until that Thursday. I probably won't have it fixed for 10 days!