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Been digging. The trim number on left hand side of the vin relates to the interior upholstrey. Still working out the other bit but i suspect it relates to add ons

Neither of those links work for me as my vin is only 9 digits long (jdm spec vin ? ) Mine must translate as Manufacture.Subaru. Body type. forester Engine 5 ? 2.0L 5 speed ? Then the serial number of the car. If the trim levels and what bot are in the vin (uk) why have a trim & option code stamped elsewhere ?

How's the trade going to work round p/x and resale of older cars. ?

If you can find out wha the options code is i'll dof my cap to you sir ! Been hunting for ages there seems to be many conflicting vews i didn't even see the trim code until i look just now. I guess i depends on where you cars from.

Mine runs out in june so will i be able to buy an old one for the full year or will i have to send it back in oct ? is anyone gonna reduce the cost of the car by x amount to factor in the buyers extra outlay. For those of you with cars in the expensive tax bracket it's gonna be a nightmare having to shell out for tax and insurance at the same time. Stupidly i had bought 12 months at the same time as my insurance (car was untaxed) but i know most of us like to stagger it so the painnis a little easier to bare

Length of rad maybe ? Been looking at mine and my radiator is slightly recessed. Any pics would be great thanks :-)

Anyone got one on a classic ? I'd like to know if it would fit on the foz, the pictures i've found look like it would go on only difference being the expansion bottle and coolant lines come out the end of my radiator instead of half way inbetween. A nice close up pic would be good

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B002HMW28W/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1389680862&sr=8-2π=AC_SX110_SY165 Need to stand the can in hot water to sofyen it all up. I did this then insert the sprayer pick up which got cloged up with the stuff from bottom of can. Bareing in mind i'd pressurised it by this time so even after i let it all out it still started to **** everywhere. Cleaning the nozzle is a pain in the !Removed! too. I got annoyed and cut my losses threw the whole lot in the bin.

It's really simple just time consuming and makes your arm ache. Like you say once its done car looks like new. You can coat anything that doesn't get hot or is plastic so just go for it lol ! It should eat the rust away too.

Before After

It stinks goes everywhere and doesn't come off very well. When i used the waxoil sprayer kit it went on the manifold gearbox you name it . I wouldn't have minded but it cost 50quid so i'm driving down the road with smoke pouring out of everywheer for about half hour before it all burnt off looked like a right tit ! I bought the hammerite underbody seal with waxoil in and it's about 12 quid and i've done two cars and only used a 3rd

I didn't wash mine as it was done when it was imported plus theres the issue of water ingress. I used those individual ramps this year saves jacking up and down. But axle stands are fine, i did the whole car in under 4hours that included getting a wire brush and removing all the !Removed! and loose old stuff then applying new coat. It drives out moisture when you put it on so as long asbyou leave it to dry for 12 hours it should be all good. I'll see if i can find the pictures

Plus you only have to do it every couple of years.

Yep i'd say deffo especially seeing you live by the sea. i do it to every car as they tend to be old anyway so every little helps. Did the forester in novmber put a couple of pics up but all info was lost when the server change/crash happened. Last year on the mazda i used the high pressure sprayer. Never again right pain and i didn't get the coverage i wanted. And went everywhere else If you have the time i'd reccomend the stuff you apply with a brush and get some of the rattle cans for the areas you can't reach

How much do you need ? Could alwaystry subaru dealer for one of those little touch up stick things ? Halfords can make paint up with the paint code either little pots or rattle cans. Just be careful i found the data base they use to be incorrect. They kept trying to tell me the paint code for my mazda was the correct one even though it was different to the one on the vin. Ended up taking a picture in with me to get the correct paint

Looking like this is suspect ? However mine makes no sense to me as its two tone so is that just the code for the paint ?

Alright next weeks good for me headset needs a charge anyway would be no fun without it. May as well get everone on board next week then

Me neither can do if you like ?

If i can be bothered i'll set a car up for a track, like hockenhiem but i'll satrt with a stock ish tune quite a bit of neg camber run the suspension as soft as possible with out it bottoming out. arb's stiff ish then do 5-6 laps of the track and using all the telemtary work out what needs adjusting and so forth. I don't really use much aero but should get more into it. If you followed me through corner 3 in spain the car was wild as i had the areo that worked for hock but useless through the higher speed turns of that curcit. 90% of the time i stick slicks on but i always loose out in terms of outright speed so it's a bit of a false economy. Better off full racing box and optimising the ratios can gain some good time setting each box to each curcit. But again it takes ages If you have an android phone search for forza droid or apple forza tune. It's a good calculator app for the begining of tuning. Just add values Of car and will produce a basic set up then you can just go from there :-) (You can tell i didn't have a girlfriend during the 1st year of f4 release)

Can't recall seeing that i was to busy trying to get out of the gravel after laughing to much at the side

To be fair mate i woildn't call the last one a paint job. Some childs drawing of women and !Removed! doesn't really count !

Yep anything goes I should really retune my setups it's just a bit time consuming these days. Some of them havent been done since the 2011 :O

Haha :-) Any A class scooby any mods you want. all assists forced off apart from 'box and driving line for those that want it and any view (why you'd want any apart from in car is beyond me lol)

To be fair one of us would prob crash into him on 1st corner so we'd even it out ! Either way i'm on if not racing will be bf insted

we on tomorrow night or the 19 suit everyone better ?