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Welcome. Enjoy :)

Just to give an update, made initial contact with Subaru. Website confused me and I requested a call back from Subaru UK. They called me back in half an hour before their work hours. Well impressed with that even though I expected a call from Kingshams Subaru. So went back and requested a phone call from Kingshams, now waiting for call back. Hopefully this Saturday/Sunday will have a meet up and progress the matter further.

Today coming back from work, I passed one of the small car dealers. And they just brought in 2014 STI blue with tinted windows. I had couple of heart attacks and nearly crashed when I saw it. It looks mean. Masons Motor the name of the dealer. 6k miles clocked. 23k. This I think will be my back up if they refuse me finance for brand new one. But yeah, it looked absolutely awesome. Only couple of weeks to go till I make contact with subaru dealer :)

Great post. Thanks.

Ah, thanks, not that bad then ;)

How much is it a year if you don't mind me asking? :)

Ah, I see. Thanks for information :)

So if a car gets stolen, I call subaru and they will track it?

Looking at the list: Merc - the price is beyond everything :/ Seat and Golf: They are VW. I have VW, never again. Renault - French, enough said That leaves RS and BMW. BM is kinda expensive as far as I remember. So as said earlier, Ford went for it this time :)

That is scary. But for me this is not the side I am afraid of. Because if you get chucked out of the car while at lights, and you have your fob in your pockets, there is a panic button I think which will shut the engine and maybe does something else to it. And I switch off the engine before I jump out of the car anyway. What I am worried about is ease of hacking the keyless entry with connection to that car computer port(can't remember how it is called) during the night. As far as I understand those hacking tools are car model specific, there isn't tools which would hack any car you come across. But if my car is eyed by thieves they will get specific tool to do the job. I can understand car manufacturers installing keyless in average joes cars, as they tend to be lazier than us, enthusiasts. So I am still baffled why Type UK comes with keyless instead of physical key with a chip. Subaru should know better that better car security would bring more buyers. And keyless is not the safest thing. On the other topic, I was checking specs of Type UK STI and they say that this car has a tracker (Satellite security tracker is ticked in spec sheet). Does it really? I wonder if insurance could drop the price down due to tracker being present :D P.S. halfway through this comment I accidentally closed the browser tab. With chrome you can re open closed tab, and I clicked on reply button again and my half comment was still there. Very nice :)

While I am preparing myself, I have one issue which is bothering me with those new Subies, keyless start. I have read some horror stories about it. STI is or used to be very popular among YOLO boyracer thieves, I'm a bit concerned. On my street, which is dead end private road I have a neighbour with ford RS. He parks it in the drive way and he has steering wheel locking device. Further down the road there is a WRX blob eye owner who has similar wheel locking device. I wonder why they went with keyless in STI?

admiral does insure subaru ;) I was quoted with all their sister companies and themselves as well ;)

Hang on, I'm just thinking out loud here, and I might be wrong, as I only have been dealing with UK insurance for 2 years. single car. But that NCB thingy, I thought it is the proof that you are driving carefully and have no claims towards your insurance. I never thought that it is a piece of paper with a number on it which only applies to single car? So logically thinking if I have 10 year no claim bonus, which means I was lucky enough careful enough not to have an accident for 10 years and did not bother insurance company with anything, that this 10 years of my careful driving will go to waste if I decide to get a second car? So does that mean that with second car I am suddenly considered as a liability on the road in a same way as young drivers being considered? With same flawed logic(in my opinion) that NCB should be invalidated if I sold my only car with which I spent 10 years without the claim.

Oh, wow, thing of beauty. Welcome :)

Hi, I was considering creating similar thread as well for South East London, as soon I will be looking for non automatic decent car wash. I was wondering if there is any self wash ones where you just put some money in and wash it yourself. From rough internet search I heard that some Shell garages have these self wash car washes. I seen on in Bromley, can't remember if it is self wash or someone actually washes for you. Its in London Rd, Bromley. I will need to check it out one day.

Thanks, will do :)

There are some rumours with electricity involved. You never know. Especially when Subaru is doing quite well financially.

I see RS as a good wake up call for Subaru to get something new. I'm not saying current stuff is not great, but ever since Evo got discontinued I feel Subaru needs some competition. In UK I feel we are neglected by Subaru. I was initially looking to get WRX, but they said they have no plans to bring it to UK. I can understand them though with UK roads surface, traffic, fuel prices and not so friendly tax system they feel they would not be so popular with performance cars. And the fact that they sell whatever they produce... :D

So, ignoring some minor increases/decreases in MPG, all higher octane fuels from Shell or BP should be fine for let's say STI?

Yeah, ford just went for it this time :D The reasons I did not go RS was that I would need to wait a lot to get one from factory, also I'm not a fan of their new EcoBoost engine... and its Focus :D

Good to hear. I follow quite a few US Subaru owners on youtube, and they mention a lot that Subaru owners are exceptional in US as well.

Also, I was wondering what are the differences between 2016 and 2015 STI? I mean exact differences. I couldn't find anything anywhere mentioning exact changes Subaru done to 2016 model. All I could find is a bit updated Starlink software on 2016, that's all.

Yeah, will definitely look into it :) Thanks

Thanks. I'm based in London (Bromley area) so kent is kinda local to me as well. I will be trying dealing with Croydon Subaru and see if they can set me up with either Maidstone or Ashington.

Hey guys, wanted to say hello. Around June/July I will start making a move towards gettings myself 2015/2016 STI. I will be paying last monthly for my current car (Auto Scirocco 1.4 TSI) in July, so as soon as that settled will be full onto STI. Initially I was debating between new Type R, New Focus RS and STI. Subaru Imprezas were my dream cars since the time I first saw it when I was still young lad, I consider myself hugely biased towards them, thus me saying hello in Subaru forums and not Honda's or Ford's :D What I expect from this forum is to prove me wrong when it comes to fact that I think that US Suby aftermarket scene is bigger than UKs, and to experience that Subaru owner's family like atmosphere. Either way I will be gunning for Blue colored beauty. Seen one in Maidstone dealership and in Ashington I think. One of them is 50miles driven another 100miles. The only obstacle (or me being extremely paranoid) is finance approval, which I should get, but I so don't trust that system :D Anyways, yeah, hello :) P.S. Any pointers to new buyer what to look for, etc, would be great :)