stuartie

Welcome to the club andy 👍, wow those wheels are bright give me a minute to get my sunnys out 😉😉, but seriously, nice motor you have there bud

You probs won't get alot of movement on the cv joints as it only takes a slight bit of wear for them to start knocking and most of the time its not till you get them stripped down that you'll see the movement in them 😉

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Welcome to the club lovely looking foz you have yourself there 👍👍

750 to fix an electric window 😲😲 thats a bit of a joke, find youself a decent local garage and get them to do it probs for under half the price, also £1800 seems a bit cheap to be honest i've just seen one exactly the same age and colour on the bay thats accident damaged front and rear for £3500

Welcome, as mamba has said 500 is a bit steep to get the maf fault fixed and the car is definetly too good for the scrap man, try importcarparts for a new one or ebay for a good 2nd hand one and fit it yourself as its not a hard job if you know how to use a screwdriver, for the sake of 60-100 quid it would be a shame to get rid of it

Yeah i think i'll take the motor in to work and get the car guys to check it for me savage, the one time it did throw some coolant out the expansion tank was after i had been boosting down the road to get home one night however it has never done it since, would really like to get to the bottom of it before it gets any worse, oh and by the way i like the idea of getting advisories at mot time to get new shiney bits for the scoob and not get an earfull off the wife haha 😅😅

Well borrowed the sniffer thingy from work and gave it a go yesterday, had the header tank cap off and let the car heat right up but it started overflowing a little so put the cap back on and tried it on the expansion bottle ( not sure if thats the right way to do it ) so will probs just take the car in to work and get one of the car boys to help me out, anyway it came back negative no colour change of the liquid so not sure where the little bit of coolant is going as checked all hoses and no evidence of any leaks what so ever, i even had a feel inside around where the heater matix is and all seems fine 🤔, its starting to annoy me a bit 😧

Ah thats where i went wrong doh 😐, i will have to try that approach next time

Lol of it were up to me i would have just put a big hole in the living room wall and parked the scoob in there, i tried to convince her the bucket seats would be just as good as the couch to sit and watch the tele 😂😎, but she wasn't having it though

Haha me too but you have obviously not met my wife though she's the only person on this planet i'm scared of 😂😂, i have to admit i am liking our new super compfy corner couch and spinny chair but would probably like the extra boost and horse's just as much 👍👍

Aye it still has the oe intercooler on i'm unsure if another later intercooler will fit or not and i'll look into getting an uprated map sensor should be able to pick one up off the bay, i currently have a 3 port boost solenoid fitted aswell as thats what was on when i bought the car 😉

I think the abs light has to be on for the diagnostics to give you a code, even when the light is on you should still have brakes just the abs won't be operational, you could buy a code reader off of ebay and plug it into the eobd plug when the warning lights are on and that should give you the codes and a internet search of the codes should tell you whats wrong, by the sounds of it you could have a sensor on the way out or an intermitant wiring fault

Yeah savage i have a set of yellow 440's sitting also a 3'' turbo back exhaust and an apexi air filter and when i serviced it a couple of months ago i put in heat range 7 plugs aswell, the plan was to get it mapped this summer but the wife decided we needed to do up the living room so the budget has went on that 😫😫, got to keep her happy and all that haha 😅, tbh i'll be happy with anything around 300hp or as much as is safe to run, don't really wanting it to eat gearboxes 😁😁

I will do at the weekend savage i'm going to borrow the sniffer from work, i done a coolant flush a few months back as after i went a run it chucked a load of coolant out of the expansion bottle and while doing the flush i found the heater matrix was blocked so took the pipes off at the back of the engine and blasted it through with the garden hose and loads of s**t came out also loads of crap came out the rad when i flushed it through aswell, since then it hasn't threw anymore coolant out however i do get bubbles in the header tank itself which is making me think the worst and now every 400 miles or so i have to top it up as the level in the expansion tank drops to below the minimum mark and the header tank level also drops a little, like i say its just since i done the flush that its started using a little coolant, maybe the stuff i've used the flush the system had dislodged something

Have you tried shopping around to get it cheaper i did see on the news the other morning that insurance prices have went up 12% in the last year 😦😦

Yeah you're right there tidgy dont want to pull the engine if i don't have to, like i said i'll double check everything and i'll also borrow the sniffer from work over the weekend and see what that comes up with, the engine has done 83k but its also 25yrs old so maybe some deterioration in the gaskets, cheers for the advice matey 👍👍

Sound i will double check all hose's again as couldn't see anything but was getting distracted by the wee man at the time asking a million questions lol 😆, could the bubbles in the header tank be a leaking hose drawing air in? Just want to make sure everything is sweet before booking it in to see mr forrest for a remap as don't want to spend all that money for it to fook up during or after the map

Well everyone my v1 wrx has started using a tiny amount of coolant around 40-50ml every 400 miles, also sometimes a few bubbles in the header tank, now from what i've read and asking a few of the rally boys at work and my own experience i've concluded the head gasket is on its way out as there no sign of any external leaks so i'm going to whip the engine out over the winter and do the job myself, i'll get the heads skimmed while they're off and my question is is it worth getting the heads ported and polished at the same time, i'll be using a small local garage who build race engines and are very well thought of around where i live to do the skimming and any other related work, any advice is much appreciated folks

Welcome to the club plenty of leggy owners here to give advice 👍

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Welcome to the club 👍

C'mon ash sutton p2 in the scoob by 0.089sec with fourth highest ballast, show mr potato how its done sunny, not a bad day at knockhill today some quality racing looking forward to tomorrow, hope it stays dry 😁😁

Welcome to the club nice to see another member from north of the border👍, should have yourself a decent motor there its been well looked after whilst in sandy's ownership

Welcome to the club, if you check out importcarparts.co.uk they will be able to sort you out with the correct parts to do the job and they are quite reasonably priced aswell 👍👍