Many deceitful people in any game,doubtful that Bob Rawle is one of them,I've never had the pleasure of meeting him,I've never had the pleasure of meeting Gary either so 'No comment'

 

Hi ditch , you running a mk2 gtd lump ?? Intercooled ?

Wish I still had my mk1 campaign !!

 

Hi Maz, yes it's a MK2 td engine trying to find a decent intercooler set up at the moment, found an Intercooler that goes in front of the rad but it's not got the pipework, so a bit undecided... need to start looking but it goes well enough so not too bothered at the moment.

 

Just for the record I wasn't saying Bob was one of the sharks.

 

Yeah loads of people willing to rip you off with any car. Not met any dodgy Subaru sellers. Just dodgy car sales. But had that with loads of cars even Subaru's. Depends which country your in I guess.

 

One of the reasons I've owned four Imprezas in 5 years is that I can't think of anything else that offers the same performance and reliability for similarly low purchase and running costs, and which enjoys such good support from independent specialists.

I've never had an Impreza let go and neither have I had a bad experience with anyone I've used in the Subaru community (for the record, that includes Bob Rawle). In fact my main go-to guy (FB Tuning) is far and away the best mechanic and tuner I have used for any marque and is one of the reasons I continue to own Imprezas.

I have owned Porsche, M cars, Lotus, and know many folk with fast VAG, Renaultsport, all the way up to GT-Rs, Fezzas, Lambos...my Subarus are consistently more robust and cheaper to run than any of these for a similar level of usage.

Ditch I totally respect your contributions but what you are saying is that you are no longer interested in performance cars at all...naturally any highly-tuned 300 bhp+ car will require more investment and will from time to time cost more than a 75 hp hatchback. Which is absolutely fine, but it's a bit like posting on a gourmet food lovers' forum to say that you'd much rather eat McDonalds these days because you're tired to paying for posh nosh.

 

I know few people here in Ireland ripped off by tuners in the Uk
We paddy’s appear to be a soft touch and easy to make a quick buck from

 

Not at all... I've always enjoyed messing around with cars and bikes and anything mechanical in general from being a very small child taking clocks and radios apart along with anything else I could get my hands on.

Speed isn't everything and you don't need to spend a fortune to enjoy it either.... my biggest thrills have come from good old fashioned 1hp ... one of the most memorable being a weekend spent on a cross country course just outside Port Talbot in Wales... life doesn't get much more 'Low rent" than that.

Despite what people think about fancy cars or even not so fancy cars like Subarus... there is no thrill like riding a horse at speed through a woodland over jumps or out in a desert at full tilt... why do you think toffs love it so much.

After that it's my first love which was motorbikes... again if you want real thrills learn to ride a fast bike reasonably well.

Now instead of a Subaru WRX Wagon I have a MK1 Golf as a daily and it's given me back my love of cars... I also sold my garage queen V3 Type R recently and I'm currently on the look out for a small boat with a cabin to replace it, but again nothing fancy.

So Life moves on as it has for many that still post on here... I guess I'll always have a soft spot for Subaru's and even this place... And if I ever buy another 'performance' car it will be a very old 911... with a couple of the old school engine management systems... CARBURETORS which is something I understand fully.

Just be thankful I've not turned into a god botherer and still at least talk about metal and engines.

I'll always be a petrol head, and I'll always enjoy winding people up.

 

yeah, there seems to be a few unhappy Evo boys over there

 

Really ????

 

well there's an Irish Yarn if there ever was one, the amount of successful Irish 'Business' men in this country, something must happen to them when they come across water.

 

gary, having just spent two days mapping at MM I was very surprised and disappointed to hear that you had turned down davey's generous offer to diagnose and fault find your car at no expense to you ... all you had to do was get the car up to him, having diagnosed the problem, given I was mapped there on Wednesday and Thursday this last week, he planned to ask me to connect up and check the car yet again for you before advising it was resolved.
yet you apparently declined .. and then started this thread ... does that make sens e to anyone?

You do not have a map a problem maps don't change but cars do !! .. when you raced the evo 10 the car was fine ... when you ran at 150 plus early this year the car was fine ... you weren't though from your messages to Davey (yes I have seen them) .. your mechanic has told you he can find nothing wrong so its "a map problem" ... I despair of mechanics that need a f**king ecu code to solve an issue ... what happened to the real deal ?

right now you could have been sitting at home with a car that had all its issues solved ... but instead you chose to rant at Davey and post this thread .. my previous offer still there ... and I suspect davey's offer is as well .. choose !!!

 

All I had to do was take another day off work and drive over 250
Miles to you and the same home assuming the car will drive up which it won’t so pay to have the car recovered up
Can I ask what will change ?
I have had the car there on 3 occasions
The last occasion it was there for 8 weeks
Fact of the matter when I asked you to travel to me you wouldn’t do it
I have zero confidence in murray Motorsport and have even less confidence in you bob
When the car goes to get rectified by another garage and mapper Well see exactly what is going on with the car and your map
Reading your previous posts you blamed everything but yourself
You already mapped my car twice and looked at it a third time and it’s in a terrible state
How did you plan on fixing it on the fourth attempt ? A magic wand?

 

To be clear this thread was posted before he made an offer to look at the car
You could of sent me that last message via pm
But your on the thread trying to save face and score brownie points
Just to clear up there was no play with an evo it was suggested to me with a mate but was not possible the way my car was running

 

Can't really blame the lad for loosing confidence in all parties... after 8 weeks at the garage and several attempts... I'd be pretty P!$$ed off too... As would anyone.

If it's got t!ts or an engine... it's going to be problematic and cost you money!

 

A day off work to get the car sorted would have been cheaper then taking the path of A N Other mapper and all that is involved, sounds like you like the attention . . .

 

4days off work so far being self employed
2 maps 800
2 lambda sensors 842
4 times traveling expenses
I’m not prepared to take another day off
Pay to have the car recovered 250 miles away
I asked numerous times for them to travel to me
I was laughed at by davey and bob told me to have a nice life
Attention seeking my ****

 

What I said to bob was next mapping dates fly into cork instead of Belfast get the car sorted and I’ll drive you up to daveys
Sounds reasonable ? Apparently not

 

Hi pal...just had a look through this thread and these cars can be frustrating lol...glad I sold mine last December...out of curiosity mate are you 100 per cent sure it's the map?

 

2nd opinions the only way to properly solve this

If you go elsewhere

And they fix it with just a remap

Then it only points to one thing,

However,

If you do happen to get the same issue and results

Then your just in the exact same position now

 

It would only prove the map to be at fault if the same stock ecu is remapped and faults cured.
Are you sticking with your ecu raggy or going syvecs?

 

Apart from being out of pocket even more if same issue and results appear after paying next man to re map

FAO raggy: life's too short pal honestly
either take the man up on his offer or get it mapped elsewhere and bite the bullit

The mapper come on here and offered you a soloution which is more than what I can say for half the high horsed arrogant irresponsible tosspot mappers around these days
Respect and hats off to the mapper who atleast come on here and explained all we will alwYs have our own sides of the story but it's the ending that should be right
if it was me I'd take him up on his offer and end this thread with a happy ending raggy with a positive result I know it's frustrating and oftenly embarrassing to say sorry or man up or be the first to accept something gone wrong but if all works out better In the end it's worth it trust me you'll feel better inside aswell
Hope you can come to an arrangement and sort your car out
From looking at how bob works and his communications I'd use him if he wasn't so far and I didn't have a mapper locally

Just my 20p's worth bro

 

OP,

When you went to collect the car last time (after the 8 weeks) did you test drive the car and pay the bill ?

 

Gary, is there no-one else can take the car for you, to avoid the time off?

 

raggys mechanic fitted the turbo and intercooler prior to mapping then he drove it 250 miles unmapped with those parts? Will that cause issues? MM stated that on page 3

 

Drove off boost car drove like a dream
Few option to who’s going to repair it
Definitely with syvecs

 

Paid for fitting of ohlins coilovers ya

 

But you dropped it off with a running fault yes ???

 

That was the primary reason it went up yes
I told him to tear the car apart to find out the issues
Anything it might need get it done
8weeks later picked car up still exactly the same

 

Did the faults show straight away on pick the car up after the 8 week stint or did they start to show somewhere on the 250 mile drive back?