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I own the same car and had it mapped. Best money i have spent on it so far. Completely stock bar panel filter and back box. Now it produces 270bhp and 345 ft-lb on Bp Ultimate. Your could get more with 99 ron Vpower but not much i guess. Car is night and day different. Just save (after you have road taxed it of course £535 really hurts) and get it mapped. If your goner add any boltons do that first then map it. I have since put brembo front calipers on her and 2 piece 330mm disks and now she also stops much better too.

Do they work? It is a common thing to add these to Scoobies not that cheap either if they are Hellas and not clones.

OBD port is broken. Does a code scanner work?

If your bothered about resale value then leave it alone. Standard 04 STI in usa can fetch over $30K apparently.

Holly Molly. Nightmare. Good luck keep us updated. Interested if AA help you.

And they did not get them to very late. No side repeaters is that the same here?

Nice. There is a silver one round my way. Think it is the only one I have seen before in UK.

Still nice and shiney though.

Hella horns. Keep them as oem horn is week.

Well that never happened.

I don't think it is entirely to please the masses but to do with the good sales run they have had as well. Record breaking thanks partly to VW diesel gate, who ironically have decided to push electric, laughable. Also the masses want tech in there car which just adds a greater chance of something going wrong. My 2007 WRX has nothing like that and I like it that way. Less to go wrong. It all just works. To keep up Subaru has had to do the same as the rest. All manufactures have there own recalls. BMW's catching fire, Fords ecoboosts overheating. The Focus RS very bad engine problems. Do these new Subaru owners actually look after their cars or treat like previous sh*t boxes or even now how to? Young uns today have no idea, cause they may get some dirt on them, god forbid. As most are acquired on PCP they do not worry about looking after it either as they are going to give it back and swap it for another as most get stuck in the agreement, insanity. They are becoming throw away items, and we want the world to become green. As he points out it is really a trend for all manufactures. They don't make cars like they did in the 80-90s, look at the 2JZ that will never happen again. Sign of the times I am afraid.

They only get more expensive as they get older. Take up less of your time but more of your money. .

Tricky vids don't help much. Not easy capturing that in a video, sound and smoke. The smoke looks like steam but hard to tell. PVC being all blocked would stop it breathing and as ROSSCOSM said could be the cause, I would clean it out and see what happens. Sounds like it needs a clean anyway so worth doing anyway. Possible cause for a sound could be the belt tensioner if it hydraulic like WRX. These start to fail and make a knocking sound.

+1. Are they any good for a daily driver on UK roads? I am old and like a bit of comfort. While I am at it anyone got/used Pedders stuff, are they any good?

Ahh yes no turbo my bad. Interesting link though and true it not really possible to be sure on the smoke/vapour from this picture.

To me it looks like burning oil and if you have over filled it that would be a possible explanation. Post your video on youtube and link it. Or use something like Google Drive and post the link. Yes the coolant will overflow if you have rad cap off when its running. I would not rely on the temp gauge in the dash as they are very slow to respond. I use a OBD dongle to get exact temps. You will get some bubbles in the overflow tank as this vapour from the Turbo cooling when you turn off the engine. See https://oppositelock.kinja.com/random-fun-car-fact-subaru-shutdown-turbo-cooling-514111544

Welcome and nice motor. Yes I agree remove the dump valve it offers no purpose until you get into serious power. Do you have PPP cert out of interest?

I have a Sigma alarm on mine so I am unable to help you there. User manual maybe.

Ahh the dipstick on these is not the best. I also struggle to read it easily. What i do is clean dip stick and then push it in hold for 3 secs and then pull it out quickly. Make sure the icon on the dipstick is in the correct orientation. Worse dipstick on any car I have ever owned. Tricky. If anyone has a full proof method I would like to hear it.

I own a WRX and before a Classic Sport and both have a pattern on tick over where it wobbles the car slightly but never stalls. It is like a stutter. Flats do not naturally balance until it has some RPM. They can be quite lumpy on tick over. On tick over they try and twist the engine on its center until revs balance it out. Both idle when warm at quite low revs, again normal for a Scooby. Maybe this is what your referring to on your point 1. You say oil is over the max. Is it below the notch on the dip stick when warm if not then you have over filled it which would possibly explain the smoke. White smoke usually means coolant is burning. Are you losing coolant, does it smell sweet?

Based on all the receipts you have I guessed it was loved. Someone threw some money at it. Exhaust probably just bad luck.

What a good dad. Hope he took notes from your wisdom.

I don't think he is asking you mate and he ain't thick either.

no for many reasons

https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/car-club-chairman-jailed-peak-district-crash-which-injured-biker-1361754 Oh dear. Thought it was a WR1.