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****it's not a sale ad**** A 95 wrx wagon with 140000kms (87000 miles), needs h/g but drives fine if keeping out turbo, mot and tax for 5 months, body vgc, all electrics work, some mods inc full stainless exhaust, fmic.....like I say, it's to get an idea what to ask, if I was to sell I just don't have the space to strip it or the other

I need to try and fix the back o/s brake pipe just to get it moving again, the mechanic I use cant come back till next tues so I was going get some pipe and the tool and try it myself. Either way, I'd need to pay him or buy the stuff (probably 6 and half a dozen) learn how to do it. I should have looked at it a lot better the day I went to see it, but that's my fault. I should also have realised when the dampness was so strong that something wasn't right, that alone should have made me look alot better and harder underneath......hindsight's a great thing (rolls eyes)

That's the thing Jay, I don't have the space, this time I'll think about it in the next few days....I just wish I could swap the dash over but it's a major pita

Had the mobile mechanic out this afternoon to check the brakes on the 98 sport (non turbo)...but he found a few horrors There's a bad smell of dampness inside especially in the boot....while he had the o/s back wheel off, the brake nipple was seized so was going to bleed it from the pipe behind....it snapped at the bolt then broke away from the junction at the side of the tank. He also showed me holes in the subframe, then noticed holes up inside the wheel arch (crumbled in his hands, other side's the same).....so THIS time, I don't know whether to fix and use, sell as it is or take bits off and scrap the rest.....I know I was maybe going to do that with the turbo, but now after being shown all this, this IS a decider this time.....Jay, Gambit, Miggs....opinions please..

I'll put the 2 Conti 205/55s on the back and get another 205/50 for the front and I can hopefully get the 17s off and 16s on, I'll need to try and get the brakes and exhaust fixed on the sport and get it mot'd though

Thanks for that Gambit, much appreciated.....like you, I need a life too :)

***I know there was discussion on this in another thread but I thought i'd keep this to wheels and tyres*** I picked up a set of 16" original sub wheels, only one tyre's good, they're all 205/50s....I've got 2 good continentals but they're 205/55s, would I get away with them on the same axle, or am I really as well sticking to everything the same size. I know (as I said the other day) it can cause diff problems, but I thought that maybe because it was just 5mm diffirence in profile, it might not cause trouble ......but maybe it still will, what do you think

Well mine has (a 95) and reception's crap compared to it being at the side of the roof on the UK model, is there anything I can do apart from drilling new holes and getting the proper side mount

As title, if the servo's attached that's fine

I don't mean to cause any trouble either, I know you're in soapy bubble of one tyre's different on the same axle, if both the same it's fine

I know, thing is, I prefer the colour and interior of the na, I can use the wheels (see other thread) seats, lights and some other bits n pieces but that's it....I'd love to use the complete dash but because the turbo's a 95 and the na's a 98, they're different, very, plus as you know, the older one's got the digital miles the other's the wheels. The 98 na has only had 3 owners in 16yrs, the wrx has had 11 in 7yrs ffs....I like the fact that the na's been untouched and original, can say that about the wrx with all the go faster **** on it

I had bigger tyres on the back of a bm I had a few years ago as it was rwd....I didn't mean they're all diffirent sizes, just the ones on the back, but I still don't like it and know I can and does cause damage to the diff.....like I say, I'll either not drive it or put the 15s from the na on. It drove better with them anyway, I couldn't believe it....must be getting old :)

I know, I'm not happy about it either as I could blow the diff (so I was told), all I can do right now is use the 15s from the n/a (they were fine when I swapped them the other day) as the tyres are all the same size and good tread. What do you mean about realising axle wind up, how's it's done....what do you mean buckets of it

I'd like to try and stick with them too but one's a guzzler with a **** interior and a h/g needing done and one's standard with virtually no brakes, a rust hole in the chassis underneath, and u good interior.....

I think it's bad, I've got a mechanic coming on Tuesday for the brakes (as I just bought a back wheel brake cylinder due to another mechanic I've used for years saying leaking/duff....it's not!!) and a snapped bolt, will get him to have look and see what he thinks. Between the smell of dampness, water in the boot (got it out though) I'm beginning to think it's not the bargain I thought it was

This is the rusty mess behind and underneath the back wheel arch, it's inside at the bottom of the cubby hole behind the plastic liner in the boot....THAT might be an mot fail. I got quite a bit of water out the other side (yes I think it's coming in through the pass side back light) but where this mess is, it's dry inside, but obviously something's been leaking in at some point but they've did bugger all about it to let it hey like this ffs!

Ok cheers

I know wider tyres ect give more grip and as you say cause worse mpg....but it's not that bad that'd I'd notice it, or would I What I might do is put the wheels from my 98 na wagon on (195/60/15s) and try it....as the wrx from 92/-4 came with 15s

Maybe, but so far there's no whining or rumbling ect

No they're all more or less the same No uneven wear that I notice, having said that, there's a weird wear pattern on the rears of the turbo but not sticking to my knowledge, I'll check them again though

There must be s reason for it, if the brakes are still binding it must be hardly anything but enough to cause this, but why aren't 1 or morehhotter than the others

At least I someone laugh, usually I **** them off lol Just a thought, would 17s with 215/45s on the front and 225/45s at the back have anything to do with it

Say if going down a hill, the non turbo I've got freewheels in neutral easier (or in gear but with the clutch down), why is this....the brakes arent binding on the turbo because when I stop, there's equal amount of heat all around on both cars. Is there something different in the gearbox or diffs of a turbo that causes this, or is there still something in the brakes binding

Meant to say......I know it'll only maybe fit from the cat back....what one, 1st or 2nd

Ok, well that's something less to worry about then.....a few others though