scotsman

Steve Walkers Bodyshop in Bathgate are good.

I've got a set of 4 second hand shocks (front and rears) in decent condition - post here: http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=147106 Cheers Richard.

Yep - I also listed mine on here and Scoobynet - always worth a shot as the above post shows.

Sorry it's not sold yet - very frustrating. What age/spec is it? I sold mine after two weeks on pistonheads - ended up having 3 interested parties and 2 firm offers. Listed for £3,800 and took £3,400 (which was actually the lower of the two offers by £100 but I liked the guy more, he really wanted to get into the whole ownership scene and I preferred my car went to a 'good home'). The price was a good bit lower than other cars that age (2001 bugeye running 306bhp) but I also think I was lucky in that with the mods (and it being a bugeye wagon) that it appealed to a certain subset. I think shifting a standard car in this market is a tough ask. Whilst I was sorry to see it go, I'm pleased it went so quickly as I wasn't expecting it. Ended up buying a Golf Mk5 GTi with 31k miles on the clock yesterday loaded with kit (£5k of factory fitted extras). Best of luck selling - my only advice is to probably drop the price further. Richard.

Well, I'm a numpty - I should have checked when I picked my car up but Duncan did fit whitelines to my wagon as a replacement - but it was the alloy ones he's fitted as opposed to the non-alloy whiteline ones I had on the car before. Got the say the car feels and sounds great now. Apologies for the confusion! Cheers Richard.

Yep - that was me - picked my car up from them this morning.

My wagon was in with Duncan and Alex getting serviced yesterday - can't praise them highly enough

I thought my struts were banging so managed to source a secondhand (35k miles) set of struts for my bugeye wrx. However, when I had the car into hypertech yesterday to get them changed Duncan found it was my droplinks and my current struts are fine. So, I've got a set of secondhand struts (4) if you're interested in them for £150 (what I paid for them). Not sure if they fit on an STI. PM if you're interested. Cheers Richard.

I thought it was my struts that we knocking all over the place, but when my car was in Hypertech yesterday getting serviced Duncan found it was all 4 drop links were knackered. They were the non-alloy whiteline ones and Duncan said he's only recommend the alloy whiteline set. Edited.

Very nice and clean machine - love wagons

Well, after lots more thinking I am still going to sell my wagon, but to replace it with a newer one - ideally a 2005 facelift (blobeye front but the upgraded interior) wagon with PPP - seems to be a few on pistonheads for around the £7k mark.

Superb - thanks Gordon

After 7 years of Scooby ownership in the last decade, I'm fancying a change. Keen on getting a coupé that can fit a couple small kids in the back (toddlers) for the odd short trip. Got to say that I've always really liked the latest Audi TT and a 2006/7 model is around £17k now. Hard to know what other options for a coupé as I'm not keen on a BMW. Did have a drive in a Mazda RX8 a few years ago and the handling was superb - but it does drink petrol. Saying that you can get 4 year old ones for under £8k. With higher fuel costs, road tax, etc, it's actually cheaper to spend double the amount on a TT (assuming you sell again in 3-4 years) - but you do end up with more capital tied up in the car. Once I get my suspension fixed on my wagon I can also see myself keeping it for another year!

Thanks Gus - good shout.

Seems I stepped off the gas too early doing the output run and Andy thought it should be just over 310. I did ask him to do a very conservative map (I only really wanted 300) as I use the car everyday for work and wanted it to last - I'm also just running a standard WRX TMIC - and would ideally need a STi TMIC to get a comfortable 330+. Cheers Richard.