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Cheers lads. It was travelling about 45mph uphill between bends at the time. Did't ralise at first it had snaped. There was an almighty ban, black smoke from the rear I first thought but it was caused by the tyres when the car locked instantly and briefly, the skid light came on and the tyres now have an area where they locked, not flat spotted but there is the clear colour difference. I gues that is "an undetectable by feel" flatspot. The incident happened in the flash of an eye.. Because I have no time and money I'm probably going to have to scrap it or see if anyone wants to buy it and repair/replace the engine themselves... 😞

Hi. Not been in here for a while. The timing belt on our Impreza snapped as I was driving to work. Don't know what to do with the thing now. I don't know how to tell if it's all messed up inside. I turned the crank with my ratchet arm and the end of the timing bely poked out of the new hole in the belt cover.. 😞 It is a 2008 2l Sport so not worth a lot and I don't want to waste money on a garage just for them to say it's ruined.. without putting a belt on it I don't know how to tell if it's ruined. Also I would have to learn on the go how to put the belt on... Time is my enemy.. lack of money too..

North Wales. Can a sill really fill up then overflow into the cabin? Never had a car do that before.

Hi. Impreza 2008 2.0l Sport, bog standard hatch. Had the clutch replaced at a Subaru garage, wasn't right, severe vibration at low speed and a warning light came on, Hillstop assist, never seen it had to look it up. Took the car back and they admitted they'd made a mistake, the gearbox was put back in slightly wrong and had to remove and reposition the gearbox andthere was an issue with how they had reconnected the reverse, that caused the hill light. Then 2 days later passenger side of the car filled up with water when my wife drove in the rain. They fobbed my wife off by removing the sill drain plug to let the water out and said no way have they caused anything that could allow water to get in. Have any of you guys got any idea where the water could be coming in please? They say the sill had filled up and overflowed into the caqbin?? Really, can that happen? It was a few inches deep and the car now stinks, there's still loads under the carpet to be sucked out. Another warning light came on the 2nd day of driving it too, again had to look it up. The auto headlight adjustment warning light is on but my fault code finder finds nothing. I don't go in to see them or I will end up falling out with them. Only started to have any trouble with the car when it went in to them...

I've checked the car over, should do this more really. Took an age trying to replace a drivers side side light, stupidly awkward to get to. Cleaned the air filter and put some gearbox oil in it as it was very very low. I **** you not I've just been gettintg 44MPG. I actually took a photo of it in case nobody believed me. Will take to a new local Subaru garage as the sump on the gearbox has a leak. The folk we bought it from had just serviced it and replaced gearbox and diff oils. Clearly they've not put a sump washer on it or it needs replacing.

Eyup. We've got an old much loved much battered, and I do mean battered 2001 Forester Sport. The forester has big chunky General Grabber tyres on it too. Also now got a 2008 Impreza 2L R. Bog standard with Yokahama road tyres on it. It's an awesome drive BUT the old battered (big AT tyre fitted) Forester is cheaper to run. We get an average of 30MPG in the Impreza and 35MPG in the Forester. Is this right? Not a big deal but had expected the more modern version of the engine to be cheaper to run. Expected it to be better to drive and wow, it is. Best car I've driven that I've actually owned, not the fastest but the best. Our driving is never short hops as we live in the hills in North Wales and it's minimum 5 miles on the commute which is half single track streep windy lanes, half nat speed limit. and regularly 45 mins on main roads to town so thats national speed limit mostly.

Sorry I meant the side rear window not the back door window. :)

In the end the DAB went into a different car, Hyundai Terracan and I bought one of those powered stick on jobbies from eBay and it's !Removed! brilliant. Huge improvement on the aerial that was installed with the DAB when I bought it. I was previously using an upright aerial that was magneted to the roof, never again.

It did make a good difference the Pipercross just never seen anything on it and I've never had this before. Previous ones just bog standard Mann or whatever, changed every year, knocked out dust every month. Pipercross never had dust, wasps, feathers etc.

Not seen one of those before. Probably going to end up with one of these but was hoping someone had tried an adaptor to use the one on the back window.

Going to transfer a DAB head unit to the Forester. Has anyone tried one of those adaptors that attempt to use the standard aerial for DAB reception? The forester has the standard window printed aerial

Eyup. I've previously posted about mysterious damage to my Pipercross panel filter. It is a mystery. But what has just struck me is that when I look at a bog standard or K&N panel filter they always have crap on them. This is a good thing. A clear indication that the filter has done a fine job. I've never seen any crap on my Pipercross and before you say the obvious, it was the same before it gained it's mysterious hole. Putting this filter on made a big difference to performance and a throatier sound BUT is this because it's very expensively doing bugger all to the air flowing through it? Recently got an Impreza III (love it) and was going to Pipercross it too but I'm going for a K&N panel filter I reckon.

Will do a pic when I get back from hols.

No, good idea though but the metal grill was still intact, foam in the other side.