jamesm

You taken up poetry in your absence?

Sorry to see you step down. In the three years I have been here you have done a great job and made everyone feel very welcome.

Excellent news. Good luck with the new role Robert.

Very nice. Good looking motor and nice miles. Enjoy.

Got to agree there. On the A77 all the time and sitting with one eye on the speedo and one eye on the road is hardly ideal. As for the A80, along that loads too visiting the parents. I have always tried to sit at 40 but do vary a little to go with the flow of the traffic as I found it sometimes safer to do that. Speed limits are beginning to lose credibility in some cases. On the A80, you could batter through the old Auchenkilns Roundabout at 70mph yet when they build a new ultra safe grade separated junction, it gets reduced to 50mph. The M80 Stepps bypass is a 50, yet the notorious A9 north of Perth is a 60 (70 in the dualled sections).

Good news for the WRC. Will be interesting to see how Block gets on. He is a character that the WRC sorely needs. Odd that he is putting together a deal for selective events in the last year of the current World Rally Cars rather than putting all resources into entering the championship in 2011 at the same time as the new gen of WRCars. But then, learn some events next year and hopefully be competitive the following year when everyone is starting off with the new breed of cars. Either way, his entry can only be a good thing for the championship.

http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/carmosaic/SU...WEB?feat=email# The link to the set of photos I found. Not seen the 2010 book but all the searches on the net bring up the McRae Gathering record. I found those photos by pure chance. I would be seriously following it up with the GWR people and getting them to explain what the dickens is going on. Especially when £2k was paid to get them there on the day.

Had a bit of a trawl on the net and found this. Am I missing something? This clearly doesn't beat 1086.

Lots of good reviews here. Unfortunately, they don't match up with my experiences. Went to see them when I was looking for the car. They wouldn't give me a test drive in anything (at that point I had never driven one), nor were they interested in trying to find me a suitable car. Their attitude was "We will phone you if we get anything in". They never did. After I got the car, I tried them again with a service query. They just didn't seem to have a clue. My girlfriend who was with me thought the place was like walking into the twilight zone. My experience is that they were unhelpful, unknowledgeable and I will never go back to them.

Nice one. Good looking motor. Enjoy!

Yup, the general number is 01505 683388

2001 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 SXI 3 Door in Polar Blue. Bought it in 2001 when 6 months old and traded it for the Scoob at the back end of 2006.

Gutted I missed the cheque handover but sadly I just could't make it due to my house move. I can only reiterate eveything that has gone before. Well done to all involved in a truly remarkable event!

The boy I bought my calipers from didn't have the bolts so he bought a set from AS Performance, but couldn't get them to fit and sold the calipers on to me. Turned out the bolts AS performance had supplied to him weren't for Brembos. Ended up going to the dealers to make sure I got the right ones. Having said that Halleys were a complete waste of time as they didn't have a clue. Went to Grieves in the end who couldn't have been more helpful in sorting me out with the right parts .

Got a set of STI v7 wheels on mine so no probs with them fitting over the Brembos. Yup, was twenty something pounds for the 4 bolts.

Mine didn't come with mounting bolts and ended up getting them from the dealers. Was something silly like £7 per bolt though!

I‘m always suspicious when there is no mention of any sort of history in an ad.

Moving house that week with the sale 'hopefully' going through that day so can't guarentee I could make it. Got knackered rear shocker too.

I was lucky enough to find a set that had been on a WRX before, so had loom attached and that just plugged into the existing connector. I am sure any auto-electrician could make one up if you can't do it yourself. There is a bloke in Canada that does plug and play adaptors and I think there is a guy on Scoobynet who makes them up on request. I guess the dipped beam goes off when the full beam goes on because of the way the WRX is set up to switch between the two filaments in the standard headlight bulb. Transforms the appearance of the car. Always thought the STI lights were the best looking for a Bugeye.

Welcome. Good luck with the motor, looks a cracker.

Recently picked up a set of Bugeye STI headlights to fit to my WRX. Have fitted today, and seem to work fine but looking to check I have got it right. Bottom inside headlight is the dipped beam and the top headlight is the full beam. I have one spare connector from the WRX wiring that has nothing to plug into, and 2 spare sockets on the STI lights. I am guessing that the spare connector and one spare socket is the headlight leveler as I know that it fit together and won't work, but what is the other socket on the lights for. Am I missing something?

A wee bit further to travel but would be worth looking at Meercat Custom Exhausts in Kilbirnie. First class in all respects, and many happy customers on here.

I emailed request for prices. Got no reply. Assumed he didn't want the business so bought brakes elsewhere.

It is a difficult one as you will never know how much you will miss it until you no longer have it. Yes it is a buyers market, but you have a pretty unique motor there and if the right buyer comes along, then you should hopefully get a decent price. All depends on what you need to clear the finance and make changing it worthwhile but then you could off set that by running something with much lower costs. Equally, you could go down the route of keeping it and getting a very cheap daily runner to save on the bills. Despite being bought as a main car, I realised I simply couldn't afford to run it as a daily runner (I do 18k a year). Ended up buying a £900 Pug 106 diesel to use for work and commuting (paid for itself in a year). This summer I am moving house, will have a longer commute and the 106 was worth less than the repairs needed to keep it going. I half considered selling the WRX, but bugeye WRXs are ten-a-penny and even with low miles it is worth buttons compared with what I paid for it 2 1/2 years ago. Then the brake calipers siezed and it has been off the road for over a month. And I miss it, and cannot wait to drive it again. So that made up my mind despite the fact the bills are huge. I have now bought a decent 2004 Toyota Corolla as a daily runner, and the Subaru will stay as a car I can have fun with. John, your motor is worth a decent price, if you must then sell it and buy something decent and sensible, but get a decent Classic for fun too!

Welcome from another (well soon to be) Ayrshire member. Nice looking car.