JusNoGood

Hi All, Well few months later and new house found and our house up for sale. Mrs has approved a parallel car purchase...woohoo :grin: So car back up for sale. I've spent over £4k on the car in the last 12-14 months. I've been offered £4k for a trade-in so in an effort to sell it to a Scoob fan rather than a company who'll then sell it on for £5.5k+ I'm selling it now for the price of £4k!!! Looking on Autotrader at £4k I could only find GX or WRX with 90-140,000 miles and no where near the same history condition as mine. So grab yourself a bargain before I sell to the trade Regards Jus.

I've seen a fair few standard STI hatches for that price. Not seen a Cossie for that....saw one for £38k!

Funny enough I was sitting watching the telly I'm my Adidas lounge around track pants...decided I'd check my oil, water before doing a 200 mile drive the next day...neighbour saw me with the hood up and came over to say I was looking more chavvy by the day :D

Interesting. I've been reading up a bit recently...air cooled are the real porsche fan boy cars (stopped building those in the 90's). The 996 was the first water-cooled and also has ugly Boxster lights but you can get them from £15k-£20k for a good one. I'd love a 997 water-cooled 3.8. 355bhp (interestingly similar or same 0-60 to a 330s, 4.6) and you can get them for between £20-25k. Yes, engines failures with them too lol Apparently the 3.6 (the Porsche WRX ;) ) was more robust and doesn't fail so may settle for one of those. Funny enough I'm not a big Porsche fan and never seen the appeal. I just thought I still need a sub 6 sec car but would prefer a bit less road noise and more comfort (love my WRX but doing 100 miles a day with all the wind noise is getting to me). The 911 seems incredibly good value for money....and it will be easier on my piles and make up for my little nob

well.....I said conclusion..... I think my final conclusion is to buy a 10 year old Porsche 911 as it is similar if not a bit cheaper to run! (expecting to be flamed for that :D ) . I'm doing around 10k miles a year so I'm getting my Scoob serviced every 6 months. The 911 has a 2 year/20k service interval so less flaffing around. The mpg is pretty similar, service costs would roughly average out to be the same I think, at my age insurance is pretty similar and it would keep it's value....just a thought nothing decided yet :D

PS from the research I did I felt it was unsafe to mod...far too many stories of engines eating themselves...so my conclusion was to get an unmodded 330s and then pressure Subaru to pay up if it went pop

I'd save for an STI From my research... WRX=225bhp, 255 for the S STI=300bhp, 325 for the aptly named 330S(?) STI= nicer looking with the arches, much nicer seats and trim. DCCD and 6 speed Insurance was £9 a year difference between the WRX and STI330S! You lose MPG...think the combined is something like 30 for WRX and 28 for STI and 25 for 330S...but you might want to double check those figures with Google [emoji1][emoji4]

Sounds really nice...no pictures? [emoji4]

it is bl00dy expensive for what is a Type R with bubble arches It does look in stunning condition and I think if I were Jay Leno I'd be adding it to me A/C garage :D

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/classifieds/classic-cars/subaru/impreza-sti/subaru-impreza-22b-sti-for-sale/4162743 :P :o :D

I found a fella with a car lift...gave him£10 for a day of wire bushing and painting. Soooo much easier with a car lift [emoji4]

Dave, it's been long enough now to mention the war when the Germans are around...but you most definitely don't mention chocolate when Hawk owners are within earshot [emoji48]

Never thought I'd see "Hawkeye" and "engine is bomb proof" used together :o :D I'd suggest googling...from what I have read... the STI 2.5 is inclined to eat itself if its not cared for....should be warmed up before going on boost, cooled down before switching off, serviced regularly etc etc Not all cars fail but I've read quite a few stories about them going and talked to a few people with them in their garage for repair....including reports from engine builders. You do often have to take what you read on the net with a pinch of salt because far too many people turn into old gossiping women with no facts or actual experience themselves to back up what they say...just like I'm doing now

Doh! Pretty sure I didn't pay so probably just need to register.

Did you find a P1 in the end? Two have just come up on South East Scoobies... http://www.southeastscoobies.co.uk/vbulletinforum/forumdisplay.php?f=52

I guess regional price difference :D Thats bad news mate.Everyone ok?

I just got mine resprayed for £300. Looks stunning. I really wouldn't go carbon fibre [emoji37]

Not having a Subaru and instead having one of those super minis shrinks your !Removed!, its a medical fact...you lose about 3 inches. The Mrs needs to know this!

Very good advice....but not going to stop me moaning about wanting more bhp [emoji3] I got my first scoob at 30...I'm 45 now [emoji4][emoji41]

How does the dip age on the car Matt? Does it look ropey after a few hundred/thousand miles or is it pretty good?

[emoji16] Found a house we want to buy so the money is going into that....it's a good investment opportunity so can't really turn it down [emoji52] So perhaps I'll try again for a hatch a bit more seriously in a year or so...

Some friends met him and said he was a right unfriendly miserable git...now you can dismiss that as people aren't always chirpy but he just comes across as a right grump when interviewed etc

I'm really not a May fan...so pleased to hear he won't be on telly much [emoji106][emoji1]

Ah right