Lo everyone,

Just thought id say hi to everyone and would like some advice on buying my first scoobie

Im looking to spend anything between £3000 & £5500 on the old shape 2.0L Turbo WRX at around 70k max mileage.

I just wondered if there are any particular model years to avoid 1993, or 1998 for example and what are the main things to be aware of when viewing??

I've done some looking around on the net the last few days and i've not come up with that much really, so I thought I might as well just go ahead and post this.

I've looked into Insurance and I know I dont fancy the P1 or the latter shapes

Like anyone, I would like to avoid a raped back to standard car, but dont want to spend shed loads on body mods and rims if you know what I mean..
Would prefer Silver if poss.

Thanks in advance for any answers

 

Look in the For Sale section some minters going for beer money.

 

kewl, thanks for that

Looking now...

 

this is my wrx import only done 63k its in mint condition ,i picked it up for £3800 ,it took me ages to find a good one so take my advice and av a good look round dnt just dive straight in,be prepaired to travel to find a good one. I did.

 

Ahh mate that car is sweet!

I take it you bought it stock and spent £££ ??

 

from my experiance stay away from my93-94 wrx's imports most are high mile and thrashed stupid and there so many of these about it hard to find a good one.

 

kewl, now thats what I need to hear, thanks for that

 

mine above is a 95 m plate not that high millage for that age .Got the car as it is now apart from wheels and exhaust,engines as cleen as a whistle. not a mark on it.

 

Anymore info from anyone would be really handy!

Are the turbos generally reliable? Service costly?

 

turbos are generally reliabe unless you drive it like a fool,ive been told that its good to replace it around the 70thousand mark (dont know how true this is) but ide cheak that out.,At my local experts (prosport) they carge around £300 for a service which isnt cheap but ide say its a must,ide definatly get a scooby expert to do the service. hope this helps

 

yeah, thanks matey!

 

No problem

 

Good luck with the search mate. I've just bought my second Scoob for £3900. There are bargains out there to be had!!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...Myscoob003.jpg

Ben

 

a very nice example at a very good pirice.

 

That is a lovely example of an unmolested UK Turbo 2000. How many miles?

 

yeah, I wondered that too.. how many miles?

 

CRX-Ownage, do you have a crx by any chance?

 

Thats way cheap

 

Hello again Scudy23, not trying to follow you around the threads!

And I thought mine was cheap - £5k for a 95k MY00.

 

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Fair play thats stunning.. What are they like to insure imports?

 

i suppose it depends on who you insure it with,prices vary, im with norwich union and im insured TPFT for £257 which is megga cheap for a scooby. I couldnt believe it when i got my quote over the internet.

 

That is very cheap but me personly wouldnt wanna insure a top impreza tpft..But thanks for the tip

 

TPFT is fine i reckon , if it gets pinched its insured just av to make sure i dnt crash into anyone . no probs mate

 

Are you sure m8

 

Umm.. yeah clearly

Spent thousands on it, but im longing for something fatter

 

Excellent, great cars!
I have just swapped a CRX for a impreza and haven't looked back. I'm going to be selling mine soon, will be sad to see it go though
So what's the CRX like? Post a pic if you can

 

Pics comming
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Here we go, should work

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/loquefxp/album?.dir=/44ca

 

Nice, well looked after, you don't see many around these days.

This one's mine, well until it finds a new home

 

Hello and welcome to Snet.

Just out of interest and genuinely not taking the p1ss, was "fatter" a typo. Did you mean faster .

If it wasn't a typo, you may wish to save up for a new age.

p.s. - Subaru Impreza FAQ

 

The imports have more BHP but the insurance takes you in the A**. I fell for it 6 years ago but i cant say i regret it. Look out for import STI or WRX stickers on UK models (if your veiwing classics). Dealers try to rip you off for the difference but its mostly easy to tell. Appart from the engine bay the UK's have a Glove box in the middle of the dash. None of the jap performance models do!