Hi All, couldnt find a newbie section for the customary, "Hi just joined I'm cluless and will be asking loads of questions I could have found If i had bothered to search"

anyway, I'm looking at Impreza's so thought I should join up and find out as much as possible about them, I'm a member of various car forums and have found them invaluable in the past, currently I have a mk4 GTI Turbo Golf

very nice mk4 Golf GTI Turbo in black which I'm sort of selling/hoping to trade/part ex

and after a Impreza for about 3k which after various nosing about would appear to secure me a tidy 98ish turbo ???

any advice/pointers appreciated

Cheers Glyn

 

Hi.
Have you had an insurance quote yet?

I'm also on the mk4 UK forum so hope all goes well mate. These cost a lot more to run than mk4 Golfs do....

 

I havent, but I'm an old git and past cars have included a Lotus, porsche's and a few cosworths amongst others so cant see it being a problem

I should have just got the Impreza instead of the Golf but I was swayed by the 35mpg of the Golf, but I gave up smoking a couple of months ago and I'm using "Man Logic" to reward myself by getting something rubbish on petrol again

 

still looking around............


I see what you mean about insurance though, got a quote yesterday and they want £500 which I thought was a bit pricey for an old car, but it's not the end of the world

so anyone seen any nice classics for sale, spending most of my spare time on PH, ebay, and autotrader

 

I got a really good quote on my UK2000 with Elephant of all people, I am somewhere around the £300 mark now.

 

mine for sale bud.
check in the wanted section under bugeye scooby.

 

had a nose, cant find it, could you post the link

Cheers

 

https://www.scoobynet.com/wanted-18/...ye-scooby.html

 

In what ways justout of interest as im in the same boat...

Obviously petrol and insurance but what else?

 

500 nicker for insurance sounds good to me, mine is a shade over 700 but I'm probably a baby at 34 in scooby owners terms.I'm running a 2001 bugeye wrx.

 

Im 22 - my quote for a 2001 bugeye WRX was £931 fully comp with 2NCB, thought it was pretty good!

 

im 37 with ban on licence.£265 fully comp from marks & spencers.

 

Good on you. Welcome to the group. Do plenty of shopping around, there's bargains, but plenty of dogs.

 

I'm a newby too yet to become a premium member as all the pennies are going toward my first scoob!

Im 22 with a ban on my license. Am looking for an 02 sti prodrive. Blue or black. Been quoted £1085 by adrian flux fully comp for the prodrive version! thats when i turn 23 on the 19/3

tip - gocompare with the tracker added.

Can anyone give me a good idea between the prodrive and 'prodrive style edition' spec differences??? other than the 285Bhp up to 305Bhp

 

Welcome.....

I am seriously considering selling my 02 STi Prodrive Style with one or two mods and a binder full of history/invoices etc sitting at 58k miles......

Shame you are the other end of the country!

Good Luck

 

probs too far away for you (newcastle upon tyne) but I think I'm gonna be selling my MY99 Turbo 2000 for a few hundred quid over what you're looking to spend. giz a shout if you want any more details, but I understand that it's a canny hike!

 

how about this one
i know the owner, well looked after car
local to you also
https://www.scoobynet.com/essex-scoo...na-happen.html

 

thanks for all the reply's

well I'm officially in the club now, ended up with an 01 Bug WRX wagon with ppp from new, which wasnt what I was initially looking for but I have had a few fast estates and do really like the annominity of them, and although initially I wouldnt have considered a bug the looks are growing on me and it was a bargain I couldnt say no to


I'm already shopping for wheels

edit - just joined up as well

 

that post is useless without pics
get em up fella

 

finally took some pics

I bought it out of ebay advert here

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

pics as purchased








unforunatley I havent been able to leave it alone, in the 3 weeks I have had it I have -

fitted new steering wheel, gear **** and silver part of dash

bought fog covers and had them painted with the bonnet scoop

fitted boost gauge and pod, done oil and filter

got it up in the air, steam cleaned the underneath, wheel arch's and engine bay, reundersealed arch's and fitted genuine mudflaps,

overhauled and rebuilt all callipers and refiited with new grooved discs and mintex pads

purchased technomagnesio detrioit F1's, made custom centre caps and fitted with new Toyo prox's

fiitted new number plates

and removed lights and sent to Darren (brockalightus) who done a cracking job for me making them a bit less in yer face, massive thanks to him for helping me out

just spent 2 days, claying, cutting, polishing and waxing the paintwork to get it back to bufty

(it was a lease car first part of it's life and looked like it had a weekly visit to the scratchy carwash )

pics as of this afternoon












so there you go, chuffed to bits with it now, and it's how I imagined I wanted it hopefully I'll stop fiddling now

Cheers Glyn

 

Nice motor fella, youve been a busy lad you done more on yours in the short time that youve had it than i have in mine in to years hahaha.

Just about to whi the heads off mine as the gasket went and blew the heater matrix, so i had to change that first before i pulled the heads off.

Looking good fella and welcome to the world of the empty wallet brigade hahaha.

Gaz

 

looking really well m8...............

 

How much you wanting for ya car mate

 

hi there sorry to jump in but im considering selling mine got a deposit to pay on house

 

wow youve been busy... looks so much nicer now goods mods there big thumbs up

 

Cheers Mate, Much appreciated, I love it now

you not got anything to sell ??