Low miles or High? 55 plate Hawk!!!
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Low miles or High? 55 plate Hawk!!!
Hi all,
I have the wonderful choice of a 55 plate hawkeye sti with seriously low miles (<20k) for £13000 from dealer or another 55 plate hawk sti with 58,000 for £10000 from a private seller who is a Subaru enthusiast and has spent a bit on it, in very good taste.
Both have only 1 previous owner and all serviced according to mileage (not age)
My problem,
the £13k hawk is at the bottom of England and £3000 more than the one just 8 miles away from me in Glasgow at £10k. It will cost about £350 to get it up to Glasgow. (petrol, getting down there etc)
The £13k hawk has very little miles but wouldn't it still need things replaced (cambelt etc) due to its age?
Also that's £3k to play with and get anything needing done on the hawk at £10k. (3k is a big saving!)
Which one do you think would be better, doing roughly under 10000 miles a year for 3 years?
Any help and advice would be very much appreciated
I have the wonderful choice of a 55 plate hawkeye sti with seriously low miles (<20k) for £13000 from dealer or another 55 plate hawk sti with 58,000 for £10000 from a private seller who is a Subaru enthusiast and has spent a bit on it, in very good taste.
Both have only 1 previous owner and all serviced according to mileage (not age)
My problem,
the £13k hawk is at the bottom of England and £3000 more than the one just 8 miles away from me in Glasgow at £10k. It will cost about £350 to get it up to Glasgow. (petrol, getting down there etc)
The £13k hawk has very little miles but wouldn't it still need things replaced (cambelt etc) due to its age?
Also that's £3k to play with and get anything needing done on the hawk at £10k. (3k is a big saving!)
Which one do you think would be better, doing roughly under 10000 miles a year for 3 years?
Any help and advice would be very much appreciated
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For me personally I would definitely go for the higher milage depending on your own assessment when you actually see and drive it. High milage doesn't always mean a bad thing. In this case, neither are high in my opinion anyway. And a 3k saving and 16 mile round trip is a good bonus. I'm sure both cars will need work anyway so may as well get a head start. Post up some pictures?
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For me personally I would definitely go for the higher milage depending on your own assessment when you actually see and drive it. High milage doesn't always mean a bad thing. In this case, neither are high in my opinion anyway. And a 3k saving and 16 mile round trip is a good bonus. I'm sure both cars will need work anyway so may as well get a head start. Post up some pictures?
Cheers bro and will do with the photo's if I buy
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Buy the £10k one and keep the £3k to one side for when you need to forge it, or better still save yourself some cash and just get it forged straight away, then you can have things like water pump, oil pump and cam belt, clutch, done in with the price as at 55k these will require doing anyway some time soon, as the engine WILL let go sooner or later, i'd aso consider a power hike ie new turbo decat and remap, spend the £3k well and you could have a pretty safe 400bhp.
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another vote for the private one with the spare 3k.
I couldn't justify spending an extra 3k and a round trip of 600+ miles for a few less miles and dealership owned.
Generally speaking, if an enthusiast has owned it, then it has been looking after.
I couldn't justify spending an extra 3k and a round trip of 600+ miles for a few less miles and dealership owned.
Generally speaking, if an enthusiast has owned it, then it has been looking after.
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I can only pressume you've seen the sticky thread about 2.5 engine failures, head gaskets etc. Option 3 could be... keep looking for one with it already done.
Option 4... and my personal choice, for that sort of money you're in the JDM hawk market which is the way i would go every time....
I believe it's BODSKI who bought one before Christmas for about £10k and is over the moon with it.
Option 4... and my personal choice, for that sort of money you're in the JDM hawk market which is the way i would go every time....
I believe it's BODSKI who bought one before Christmas for about £10k and is over the moon with it.
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I'm not sure they all go boom. Even though mine did, it was an early Spec D with the dodgy HG.
But if you're worried you can always go for a late Blob like this one, even if it is a little bit on the steep side. I liked my blob more than my hawk.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...ti-ppp/1184259
But if you're worried you can always go for a late Blob like this one, even if it is a little bit on the steep side. I liked my blob more than my hawk.
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...ti-ppp/1184259
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Just as a warning. My 55 hawk sti has just broke 52.5k miles and rings have gone.
Car is enthusiastically owned and cared for never boosted until oil is 80 degrees etc...
It could happen anytime low mileage or not and having 3k waiting for a forged build is handy
Car is enthusiastically owned and cared for never boosted until oil is 80 degrees etc...
It could happen anytime low mileage or not and having 3k waiting for a forged build is handy
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Another thing to bear in mind is that on a car that is used as a weekend toy with mega low miles, for it to then go to being a daily driver, things start to fail. A couple of guys on the Legacy owners club had this issue with cars that had mega low mileages that then became dailies, and then things started dropping off.
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Low milage doesnt mean low age, they have been exposed to the elements for the same time, thats why things drop off, also lower milage tend to get used then stored, perfect for rust build up over time.
O also if you can, stay with one on an 06 reg plate and reged before 23rd march 2006 (falls into lower tax bracket)
O also if you can, stay with one on an 06 reg plate and reged before 23rd march 2006 (falls into lower tax bracket)
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I'd be seriously tempted by this:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/subaru/impreza-sti/litchfield-type-25-jdm-wrx-sti-forged-cosworth-360bhp/986427
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/subaru/impreza-sti/litchfield-type-25-jdm-wrx-sti-forged-cosworth-360bhp/986427
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I'd be seriously tempted by this:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/subaru/impreza-sti/litchfield-type-25-jdm-wrx-sti-forged-cosworth-360bhp/986427
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/subaru/impreza-sti/litchfield-type-25-jdm-wrx-sti-forged-cosworth-360bhp/986427
is that the one that got binned and it never got recorded?
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Evo's aint bomb proof either mind
That's just believing a false sense of security IMO, friends have had them an they have gone wrong more times than I care to remember, way more than the scoobs they have owned! I can remember the day a good friend of mine picked his first Evo up, got it near enough home, give it a bit of boost down the local bypass only for it to spit a rod out the block and proper throw its toys out of the pram, the engine that went back in was also more hassle than it was worth, then it was rebuilt and smoked like a bastàrd after a few miles, not what I would call an ideal car nice cars and I would probably have one, but to think they are more reliable than any other car of similar performance is just sticking your head in the sand, they have their own fair share of problems and cost just as much to repair
That's just believing a false sense of security IMO, friends have had them an they have gone wrong more times than I care to remember, way more than the scoobs they have owned! I can remember the day a good friend of mine picked his first Evo up, got it near enough home, give it a bit of boost down the local bypass only for it to spit a rod out the block and proper throw its toys out of the pram, the engine that went back in was also more hassle than it was worth, then it was rebuilt and smoked like a bastàrd after a few miles, not what I would call an ideal car nice cars and I would probably have one, but to think they are more reliable than any other car of similar performance is just sticking your head in the sand, they have their own fair share of problems and cost just as much to repair
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