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Sounds like it'll be a good laugh. It's about time I took the Cossie to one of these :). Will meet at Pease Pottage also

That's the hope. No I didn't check, but I'll ask today, cheers for the advice

Put a diag tool on it and it looks like it's a dud battery, I'll be looking forward to a very apologetic phone call tomorrow!! @salsa-king it's number 48 :)

No, but that's what I've resorted to; minus the stereo obviously, interspersed with sobbing and rocking backwards and forwards muttering "it's ok, it's just sleeping, tired car, will wake up soon, yes, wake up soon"

*in big brother narrator voice* day 3 and the cossie has a flat battery, Rich is not a happy bunny

Just kidding! http://uk.subaruownersclub.com/forums/gallery/album/135-cossieeeeeee/ Luckily I took some yesterday, the heavens have opened but I'll post more once I can be all arty and ****

Well, I'm pretty sure you shouldn't buckle to tantrums, so I'm just going to let Jonny trash it out....I hope he doesn't ruin it for the rest of you

Well gents, the beast is now in my possession, finally!! Just a small 4 hour drive home and I'll wang some pics up; as promised, later today or tomorrow :)

The old girl has just been sold so the new arrival will here on Saturday! Looks like I won't be heading your way, sorry Gambit

Cheers dude. The finance has gone through (thankfully) so I just need to shift the WRX. Help me sell it and perhaps I'll swing by after picking it up. Hows that for an incentive ;)

For Sale: 2003 (Blobeye) Subaru Impreza WRX SL, just under 70k miles with almost perfect service history. 12 mth MOT & 6 mth Tax. Full leather interior, heated front seats, sunroof, electric mirrors and windows. It had a replacement allow & front tyres last month and a new steering rack in Apr 2013. It went to ScoobyWorld in Nov 2012 and had their WRX performance pack put on with included: decat up and down pipes and EcuTek ECU re-map, so it produces around 260BHP but I was never given a readout. Whilst it was there it also had its cambelt replaced at 58k miles. I replaced the standard dump valve to an HKS atmospheric dump value which gives a really great sound and it also has a Tracker fitted which brings insurance down - always a bonus! There are; thanks to some lovely individuals in various car parks, a few scrapes on the bumpers and one little dent in the rear offside door which very slightly spoils an otherwise great little car. I'm asking £4,295 o.n.o, please come and have a look and make me an offer as its a great car and will be sad to see it go. I'm also selling some pink injectors that came off an 04 STI for £120 o.n.o if anyones interested

Have put a holding fee, but need to sell mine first before I can pick it up. I'll post pics as soon as I get it home, it'll be a couple of weeks yet but they'll be here, I promise!!

Thanks Jay, that's good to know. Although I only put v-power, I'll have to make sure the garage put the same in given it's a 400 mile round trip to go pick it up.....as I bought it!! It was probably the most fun I've had in a car, and I've been "lucky" enough to drive a lot of Porsches through work and they don't come close! Just need to sell mine and I'll post pics!!

Haha I've been here a little while but the newer age models are a complete unknown to me so thought I'd put it out there. It was a bit of a n00b question granted and heres another @Jay, "ringland issues"? Thanks for the advice everyone, pretty much confirms what I was hoping everyone would say. Will update (with photos) if I do make the plunge. Exciting times!

Hi all, I'm looking at buying a WRX STI cosworth and I'm just wondering whether anyone knows what the real world costs of day to day running would be? I've got a 03 blob eye and don't really know anything about the new age 2.5ltr models in terms of service frequency, fuel consumption etc let alone one that cosworth have got their hands on!! What's the general consensus with the new age hatchbacks and reliability etc? Cheers

Hi all, So I'm back on this issue again. I took the door card off and the wiring was a little dodgy (loose wires etc). I plugged wires back into where they needed to be as well as wrapping anything exposed in insulation tape which fixed it until a week or so ago. The same symptoms came back and because the weathers been so bad haven't had a chance to look into again. 2 nights ago there was a load pop and a burning smell - something electrical and no more crackling.....or sound at all. I thought it might have been something in the head unit but it still turns on and works fine, albeit without the sound. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have gone? I don't want to invest in a new unit only for it not to work or for part of it to go again Cheers

No I didn't I'll give it a try. Might grab some brake cleaner just to make sure the ICU is as clean as possible. Might produce better results than WD40. Cheers for your help dude, I'm starting to think it might be expensive

Just cleared it and it ticked over nicely then went up to 2K stayed there before the fail-safe kicked in and the same error code has returned

Hey guys, Unfortunately this hasn't appeared to make any difference, the frustration increased by spending the past few days searching for the correct tools. I haven't yet cleared the engine code would that be causing the problem to persist? But failing that, any more ideas would be very welcome

Yeah, got an idolling problem. You posted a **** tonne of pictures taken from a magazine for me in another thread ;)

Unfortunately my mate had everything other than 5 lobed helpfully but I've found a cheap set on Amazon. After all this !Removed!-ache I really hope its the ICU.

Just to close things up, Halfords nor maplin had any unfortunately but I've managed to get friend of a friend to loan me some from his garage Cheers for the suggestions boys

Hi all, Bit of a long shot this bit I need a 5 pointed torx screw bit which apparently rarer than rocking horse ****. Does anyone in/around Worthing West Sussex have a set I can borrow or if not, anyone recommend where I can find a set from? Cheers Rich

You're a legend, a gentleman and a scholar Gambit. Doubt I'll be able to do it over the next few days but I'll keep everyone in the loop Rich