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No worries :-) Thats based on a 16" rim think yours may be an inch bigger Don't know if you'd be able to get them cheaper else where of you shop around. My work has an agreement with them to supply our vans. Usefull to see whats availabe for any car though.

:( gutted for you mate,

http://www.etyres.co.uk/car-tyres-uk/searchresultsnew?postcodeText=ls27qz&tyreWidthId=7&tyreProfileId=5&tyreWheelId=4&tyreLoadRating=99&tyreSpeedId=0&orderBy=price&pcVar=&vn=none&asc=1&newmenu=YES&showmenu=YES&tyre4X4=F click on premium at top then about halfway down the page are the goodyear effegrip or something the Michelin energy savers aren't bad either although i always found the michelin agilis on my old van really soft, used to go through a set every 5000 :o plenty of choice there

Re manual, i'm sure gambit will have one hidden somewhere. I'd always say just go with the best tyre you budget will allow as it's the only thing keeping you in contact with the road. I've been looking at the michilen and goodyear ones they aeem to have the best combination of all things

Quite a lot of the forester ones seem to be a trade off between noise/ wet weather ability or noise/ economy. With it being a reinforced tyre it limits choice some what. At the end of the day there are 4 driven wheels so wet weather handling is better anyway. When i bought my foz it had two new budget on the rear and two nearly new budget on the front. I'll put something decent on next time round but i've not had any problems in the wet or off road so far see how they are in the snow. They also have a better score in the wet than some premium brands. Downside is noise and fuel economy

If everything goes to plan i'll have the seats from my forester spare. I don't know how much they differ in size and height to the buckets but it will be a more upright driving position for your girlfriend.

J As in it won't arm while running ? But if hand brake released the engine will cut and immobilser will kick in after 30 secs anyway ? My old hornet alarm had a tt function but i didn't have a turbo :-D have a viper one installed and it says in manual there is a passive arm that can be programmed in after 30secs may just speak to the chap who installed my old one and see what he says Is there much difference between the type 1 and type 2 hks timers ?

Thanks :-) 1st one i've done. After a couple days driving and you can tell the difference. The pedal doesn't feel as slack and soggy when pressed and i'd say it's worth the pennies. Wether the cusco cdf or other makes are worth the premium is hard to tell without trying each one

Hi were you the chap withbthe problem with a canister in your forester ? Can't remember due to post deleting

What size rims were the old ones ? If same size why not swap onto new rims get some winter tyres for old ones ? Save all the nasty salt from getting in those lovely new wheels

Don't mean to hi jack the thread. Jow does this work with the alarm/immob ? I'm lookong at getting one purely cos i now live in a block of appartments. Car is parked in a secure garage and in the morning i want to warm it for 5 10 mins and go have a brew, have an aftermarket alarm and just wonder what are the complications ?

It went something like this **** **** **** i'moff home for a beer i forgot to add the pic of the contents of the kit. All washers were put on by me as i knew it would be a good idea. Plus the old man was an engineer by trade so wold have got aslap for doing a shocking job :-)

Jay, it was only after i did it up and stood back that i realised i haddn't put it on :-( when i get round to it i'll put one. Christmas shopping today whoop !

Cheers apart form the typo haha

Right if anyones interested just posted a write up in the foz section, if i've missed anythingor it looks rubbish give us a shout and il ammend it. If in wrong section please move it mods :-)

Thought id post up a brief guide to installing a master cylinder stopper bracket to a first gen forester, principals the same as a classic impreza. The purpose of the stopper is to eliminate the movement of the servo and cylinder/resevoir under heavy braking as the firewall isn't the thickest. I ordered a tegiwa stopper as they seemes to have good feedback on the products. When it turned up there were no instructions and only a couple of bolts. It's pretty straight forward. Tools i used for the job are 10mm socket 12mm socket 12mm spanner Extension bar This should take around 20 mins ! Provided all the fittings are the correct size, bare in mind this is a generic product so may not be. First off on remove these two 10mm bolts that hold the boost solinoid and other electrical gubbins on Just ease it to one side to give you more room. Behind this you will find two round stickers, ignore the one closest to the wing and peel back the other to reveal a threaded hole with a captive nut. The long flat peice of the stopper will attach to this. 2nd stage is to unbolt the brake bias housing and the little carrier that its attached to. Directly behind the two white circles is a bolt with a 12mm head. I took the bolt out and eased the whole unit away from the tower and slide the main plate of the stopper behind it without removing the existing carrier. On the main plate there are four holes i only used two and decided to hook the carrier guie into the upper most one then screwed the original bolt back in, its fiddly grrr ! This is where things went wrong for me as the bolts supplied with the kit to attach the barcket were way too big. I ended up getting two 25mm machine m6 size bolts and cutting them to 15mm Now the really fiddly part. Below and a little to the right of the 12mm bolt just installed is the 2nd mounting hole. you can just see it in between the resevior and the main body. I worked out that you can just fit a 3/8ths drive bar in there attach a 10mm socket on the other side, slide bolt in align and do up. Pain in the !Removed! doesn't come close. That should be the main bracket attaches to the side of the Shock tower. Next return to the hole in step 1 and place the small arm across to the main bracket. Insert m6 bolt and do up. Then just do up the bolt supplied to attach the two bits of brace and dial in the stop to the end of the resevior and your done. Replace the bost solinoid bracket and admire your handy work

Haha i'm laughing at your reply not your situation. What a bell end you can only hope your plea is heard by the bay. Can they see your messages you have sent to strengthen your case ? At the end of the day hes broken the terms of the contract you both entered !

Jay, no because i just orderd an impreza one. I'd like somone to check the size of the holes on the impreza tower before i fed back. Shouldn't be different but you never know, Once i've confirmed that its the same i will do. They only have one listed on the web site so i took a punt. They have different ones on ebay site but all say will fit impreza. Where is the re subscribe to thread button ? Manage to take myself off by accident

More the fact that it was a twenty min job but because of incorrect parts it took 3 days :-( Thats the reason why i've only got 2 pictures may just do one with a before and after pic for forester owners benifit

Finally fitted ! Sod the writeup as it took too long.

Sav, where is simon based ?does he travel? I'm currently in discussion with duncan from race dynamix with regards to my plan for next year and an esl upgrade

Sweet which one you go for ? If tegiwa one save yourself the hassle and get some m6 machine screws as the ones supplied are far to big in diameter. The ones from subaru didn't fit either so i've resorted to buying some from a motor factors. Even then i'm gonna have to cut them down as they are going to foul the springs. So after finally getting all parts needed today fitted it all only to find i had to take 90% of it off again and re fit with shorter bolts tomorrow

Sweet i'm ordering some no8 from subaru direct so i'm pretty sure they'll be up to the job. Thanks again

Cheers for that, should i assume that the ones in the engine bay with numbers on refer to this or would it be a totally different system ?

Turned up today, looked sturdy enough. No instructions. No problem. Went to test fit only to find none of the bolts to attach the bracket to the bodywork fit grrrr ! Anyone any good with hex bolt sizes ? they say 8.8 on the top what does this relate to in bolt size ? M12 ? So everything back together again and placed an order with subaru for what i hope are 3 (couple of spares) new bolts as i refuse to try and drive a bolt through too small a hole. At 95 pence each i'm not gonna break the bank of the're wrong