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I love my impreza diesel. But I probably would find it hard to recommend to a friend or family member The engines are known to die early on. Euro 4 and early euro 5 are the ones to look out for, my car is a euro 4 but luckily so far no hickups. Remapping is a risk as the engines are known to be weak. I do want to remap mine but I am on the fence as don't want to kill my car prematurely. I run a aftermarket cat back system off of a sti hatchback without a centre resonator, has a bit of a rumnle but still a bit tractor like, it's loud when doing a dpf regen though. They are not particularly economical the best I've got on a trip to Wales was 49mpg on the computer but worked out 47mpg real world. Usually getting around 44mpg real world with mixed driving. If it must be diesel and your after reliability and power your probably best of going vag route, my girlfriends vw 170hp tdi gets better mpg is faster than mine standard, much easier to drive around town has a wider powerband and can get 220hp with just a map

My front control arm but rear bushings was very visably perished, with it jacked up and wheel removed there was quite alot of cracking I wish I had a picture to show, but Google shows its common on this generation that use this type of bushing. Quite funny as the mot when I bought it had no advisory but the previous mot before that had an advisory for this bushing. One main reason for me going polybush was because I was doing the work myself and didn't require a press to install the versions I got, it did involve alot of swearing though as the black bushings are stiff. I forgot to mention I also have the rear diff lockdown kit in my car. Overall the stiffening I've done on my car still leaves it as a nice daily driver, it just inspires alot more confidence when on country lanes. With the stock tranny mount It could be hard to find your gear when shifting down or up whilst driving spiritfully. I would fully recommend the perrin steering damper lockdown kit, I wasn't prepared to drop the steering rack to fit the sti solid joint so this was the next best option, it does make a good improvement in steering feedback loosing alot of the rubber feeling in the centre of the wheel that feels like it does nothing.

I have a 2010, stock arb is 21mm front and if I remember right 16mm on the back. I bought the car with 51k miles on it and after a couple thousand miles I noticed a slight knock and a bit of wiggle under hard braking, inspection showed the rear bushing on the front control arms was perished so decided to change out both bushings on the front wishbones. I don't notice much more noise over all other than some hard bumps can be loud, handling wise it improved by feeling more solid in the corners and easier to maintain going straight, overall less floaty, this car does feel a bit numb stock. The rear subframe lockdown kit I would say makes one of the best changes, again it helps the car feel more solid and less floaty. Overall more stable when cornering with a bit of speed. I did try it on lowering springs which was great around town and for roundabouts and cured the understeer but I scraped on every other bump and once you get above 80mph it felt like it jumped over sharp bumps rather than absorb them which left it feeling a bit sketchy. So I'm back on stock springs, after looking into coilovers it's just not viable for my car the cost is too much for proper height adjustable ones as I would like to be as close to stock height as possible due to scraping, my poor exhaust manifold is what scrapes most of the time. Swapping out the roll bars is something I'm thinking about. Maybe swapping out the rear 16mm for a 21mm adjustable bar and going from there

Hi I'm Tom from Lincolnshire I'm new to the forum Owned my impreza 2.0d a (trouble free) year now Only mods I've done are Swapped the exhaust for a cat back system for a sti scooby world I believe front control arm bushes have been swapped out for powerflex black bushes. Powerflex black rear subframe inserts. Powerpro crossmember bushes. Hardrace pitch stop mount and gearbox mount. Perrin steering damper lockdown. Perrin brass shifter bushing (meant for the new model wrx hat are sold in America) I am interested in getting a short shift kit designed for the 2015 wrx shipped over from America to install on this, but it proves costly ording parts over.