Im looking at buying my first impreza turbo soon, found a good car right price but its done 98k on the clock and fsh,is this sort of mileage a problem.can anyone help.

Thanks Paul

 

My legacy estate is 10 years old, and has 130K on it, and it still drives great, and all on the original suspension. There arent any rattles to speak off. Subarus do handle big miles very well, if looked after.

 

No need to worry mate, my neighbour has an my95 uk with 208,000 miles. All he does is change the oil every 2000 miles and keep it serviced correctly. No engine rebuild or major replacements. Only a clutch 28,000 miles ago. The scary thing is that it has 287bhp.
Gets driven like it should too.
Mileage aint an issue as long as it's got FSSH.
Go for it.
Regards
Mako

 

what mods he got on it to get a UK car to 287 and still have the reliability to get over 200k

 

I had a wagon which my brother now owns its now done 115K and runs spot on. I personally reckon they get quicker with mileage and would not be put off one at all. When will people realise that cars are built to much higher standards now and the old if its done over a 100k its knackered brigade should realise this.

Cheers Jay

 

yeh but i bet all the paint has fallen off by 100,000 miles

 

Had a Uk car 98R with 146K FSH compant car drove spot on - no probs what so ever...!

If its (considerably) cheaper than a low miler and has a fsh go for it.

 

208,000 miles, and hes only had a clutch 28,000 miles ago. Thats 180K on a clutch..Thats a record. Expect them to last 50K. Are you sure its a turbo your friend has Mako?? Nearly all 4wd cars are hard on clutches.

 

Absolutley it's a turbo. It was a company car before he got his modding mits on it so it had always been well serviced. As far as mods he's done it's Scoobysports gasflowed downpipe, centre, Magnex BB, PiperX induction Kit, Superchip, Dawes, Intercooler water spray, currently running @ 20-18psi boost. Dyno'd 3 weeks ago and produced 287bhp and 246lbft. The car runs sweet as a nut and a local Subaru specialist said it was one of the best Scoobs he'd been in. It really is a genuine cracker.
However it does look a bit like Beiruit at the front, 208k is a lot of stonechips. He's looking at getting it painted sometime soon.
If I can get pics uploaded I'll put them on.
cheers
Mako

 

Hope this works


First Pic is at the dyno 3 weeks ago
Second is before it got the bonnet scoop put on.
Mako

[Edited by Mako - 9/16/2002 8:42:11 PM]

 

Mako
whats the deal with the intercooler water spray, i'm sure this was the car that was parked next to me at KH few weeks ago in the paddock, seen the sprays but had me puzzled.

cheers.

 

What do you want to know about the spray? It's fairly easy to install. Washer bottle off a Nova, some tubing, micro irrigation nozzles from B&Q and plumb onto Intercooler. The reason we put the spray onto the intercooler rather than in the scoop was for benefit on rollers where the bonnet is up so no spray hits intercooler. The system is wired to the headlamp washer circuit so it's a case of hitting the switch for spray. This is soon to be changed for a temperature switch.
Hope this answers your query
Regards
Mako

 

Mako
the bit that puzzled me was why have it, is it purely to reduce the temperature of the boost air going through the cooler hence increasing volume or is it something else, also, if it is as i suspect above, what sort of differnece do you get on the rolling road before and after fittment, must say, it did look the dogs b's.

cheers

 

My car has approaching 107,000miles on it and it is sweet as a nut..





Even does a fair bit of towing..



The one problem you will have is re-sale they are not easy to sell as everyone steers clear of a high mileage car.. so if you intend keeping it for a couple of years and moving onto something else you might be better going for a low mileage car a couple of years older..

Mine is still running on original Suspension, and Clutch as far as I can tell from service history..

Front crank seal went at 100k which is a common problem apparently and they should be changed with the cambelt at 90k..
So if it has not been done then expect it to start leaking oil out the front.. cost is a cambelt change to change the seal about 300notes..

Enjoy the new car

JGM

 

MY 96 wagon wrx..280BHP has done 83.5 K miles and used every day...
there are pics of it in the southern meet section under the exmoor thread..runs well ask the guys who went on exmoor!!

go for it!!