muzz Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hello everyone, I did a quick Google search looking for the owners club for Subaru and this club was top of the list. I have recently (2 days ago in fact) bought myself a 2003 Impreza WRX in excellent condition. The car has had the same owner for the last 7 years who loved it to bits. It's a very nice example and totally unmolested which makes it that bit nicer from a buyer point of view. Granted she is in need of a damn good clean and some maintenance work but I can't fault the condition at all especially with her age. My most immediate job is drop links on the front and rear plus a set of new tyres. So far I'm loving the car a lot, very nice power and handling. I'm hoping to talk to you all a lot more as I start my Subaru ownership journey :) Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Pete Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Welcome to the club. Take some before and after pics when you give it a clean. We all like a good gander :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hi mate welcome to S.O.C And it's nice to know google likes us as we like google ;) It helped me find all my !Removed! sites since 1997 Please feel free to have a look around mate and join in on the threads the club has some really great and friendly members so feel free to have a look around and join in on the threads plenty that goes on here not just all car talk just 90% of it :D And as Pete says we all like to see some pictures :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzz Posted May 10, 2014 Author Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hi mate welcome to S.O.C And it's nice to know google likes us as we like google ;) It helped me find all my !Removed! sites since 1997 Please feel free to have a look around mate and join in on the threads the club has some really great and friendly members so feel free to have a look around and join in on the threads plenty that goes on here not just all car talk just 90% of it :D And as Pete says we all like to see some pictures :) Hi, Thanks for that :D I have included a picture for you chaps of the car as it stands, like I said I'm fortunate in that it's totally standard except for two areas the first being a powerflow exhaust and the second being a lightened flywheel. It's has new timing belts, clutch and the flywheel that I mentioned. MOT is until January next year as well so I'm very happy with it, just need to start getting the car clean. It's spent a large portion of it's life out in the sticks so natrually there's a lot of mud/dirt in and around various parts there is also eveidence of car wash paint damage i.e. lots of swirls marks. As I mentioned there is knocking from the front (lots of it) so the drop links will be getting attention first both front and rear. Tonight after having the car out I was hit with an engine management light which was P0340 - Camshaft Position sensor "A" circuit. (Bank 1 or Single Sensor). A two second search on that brings back a wealth of compaints and every one seemed to be the "bug" eye Impreza. Looks like I have my work cut out on that one if I'm to find a fix haha. The headlights have some hazing on them which I'll need to repair with those buffing kits you now get. In a bid to test how easily I could restore the paint work I sectioned off part of the bonnet and worked through the cleaning process and compunded the paint back a bit and it came up very well which means I have a day or two of buffing coming up haha End Result Anyway, that's where I'm at so far :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevell Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hi mate why do the bugs seem to be in better nick only just got myn few weeks ago ,I had that cel light and code very common problem I have read , I brought the 24 pound camshaft senser off eBay it's the one near the oil filler easy to get to, and myns all sorted I had a memoscan to erase the cel and code and it has not come back on at all today .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambit Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Look's spot on mate. As a bug owner myself I would say like the hatch they was the most unliked of them all so sort of lasted well. I love mine but if it wasn't for the morette lights I'm sure I might have jumped ship long before now. But I have owned mine awhile and I like to point out that Burns won the WRC with the bugeye ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzz Posted May 11, 2014 Author Share Posted May 11, 2014 Hi mate why do the bugs seem to be in better nick only just got myn few weeks ago ,I had that cel light and code very common problem I have read , I brought the 24 pound camshaft senser off eBay it's the one near the oil filler easy to get to, and myns all sorted I had a memoscan to erase the cel and code and it has not come back on at all today .... I had read that just replacing the sensor can help and those that had done didn't report the fault coming back. Interestingly I also read that it was also down to poor grounding on the engines electronics which was causing the ECU to think something was wron, if I recall there was talk of certain items sitting too close together (if I find the thread I'll post the comment) have you heard anything like that? Look's spot on mate. As a bug owner myself I would say like the hatch they was the most unliked of them all so sort of lasted well. I love mine but if it wasn't for the morette lights I'm sure I might have jumped ship long before now. But I have owned mine awhile and I like to point out that Burns won the WRC with the bugeye ;) Thank's I'm very happy with it. I was looking at headlight changes myself but I'm one of those folk that is a sucker for originality and would like to be true to the cars original look. Time will tell I can't say I totally dislike the bug eye although a nicer nick name would have softened the blow somewhat :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevell Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Plus I like there smaller bum ,lol Well I didn't like the bug ,but I'm starting to like it more and more ,lol Yes I need morrettes they do transform the front ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4758nigel Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 hi mate welcome to the site ;) nice looking motor you've got there hope you can source/sort the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay762 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 wotcha and welcome :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevell Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Yeah I did read about the earth problem ,on the lines of at high revs it shorts the senser out giving you the cel , my light only came on when I gave it a lot of welly I think the man who owned it before me never went past 4ooo rpm lol ,so I thought myn was an earthing problem I was going to buy a earthing kit if the sensor did not sort it out ,but it still drove fine but I checked all the earths , couldn't see any problems so I just bought the sensor been fine since ,I also read somewere that it's a subaru fault as these sensors were faulty to begin with . Easy fix . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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