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General concensus seems to be that elephant/admiral (same group) are often cheapest for standard cars or close to standard with minimal mods. More than 3 categories of mods or significant power hike and they won't insure you.. At which point Sky insurance/Keith Michaels are better on modified cars. IIRC my borther has his RB320 insured with admiral, neither KM or Sky Insurance could match their quote. Not quite he same, but got the Ka with Elephant at the moment, but goign to give the IAM surety one a try for it's renewal since it's still costign me over £200 P.s. Euan! God knows how you get that quote from admiral! Very impressive!! Would love to get mine under £500 Currently £570

Holy crap! Under no circumstances should anyone on here be reccomended to go there! Infact I'd be considerign getting in touch with Subaru UK to have their newly found dealership recognition removed! As yet I havent head many good reports about them since they got the status. Only bad stuff.. Ok the guy got sacked but it should never have happened in the first place, official dealerships should be trusted with you car, not have then thrashed more than an owner does!.. Cool! Was looking at those a couple years back.. WHich pack did you go for?

From the photo on the origonal post it looks like the TD04.

I got a Nexus S a couple months back for £200 sim free. Shoved Ice Cream Sandwich on it and it's great! Absolutely love it! It doesn't 'really' do anything that my last 3 phones (all nokias) couldn't do, but it just does it much simpler and more effectively than nokia managed.. Never been one for iPhones.. I've played with a coupel but I just don't get them.. Find them far to restrictive and locked down for my liking and TBH as a device, not exactly groundbraking. Even when teh first iPhone came out I was able to compare it against the N95 I had for a few months previously , and apart from lack of touch screen the N95 could do EVERYTHING! the iphone coudl do and quite a bit more!.. With the iPhone your buying a name, not a quality device IMHO.. But each to their own.. It's whatever is right for you.. I'd just get far too frustrated with one..

First thing to note is that the HKS induction kit will essentially amplify any raw intake noises.. What dump valve do you have fitted? Not an expert on the classics, but boost does sound a little low if it's been remapped for the modifications. Someone will no doubt correct me but 0.96bar sounds close to standard map..

Never realised there was so much rumour and gossip surrounding what happened to the car! I just took it as is.. An unfortunate accident with a car I was quite fond of (in a strange sort of way).. DIdn't realise there was soo much fuss and stories going on.. Good to hear your ok though!

Hi! Welcome to SIDC! Good to hear another mechanically minded person running about locally, not qualified but been in amongst the Impreza more times than I care to admit.. Mostly learning As kenny says, worth takign a look at the Highland Fling Thread and see if your interested in coming along

Just as a quick follow up from my earlier post on here.. Gary won over IAM Insurance.. They were happy with the car and all it's mods.. Only point they didn't like was that the car has over 10% more power than standard. So naturally Keith Michaels again for another year. Despite policy goign up by £20.. Sadly the points expiring from my licence and the drop in milage as a second car hasn't helped take the costs down Yet still cheaper than a couple others I tried.

Hi Wiley! Welcome over from the dark-side Cracking looking Hawkeye there!

Reminder to all to change your calendars over to March if you havent done so already ... especially Kim

Totally agree! Working as a System engineer at the moment and each year just get's worse and worse.. The users are their own worst enemy.. Warn them that if they carry on the way they are working it's gonne break.. But their attitude is well if it's worked this way for us ok so far why will it break later! Gonna be good fun when they reality hits them that their precious 2MBit leased line is disappearing next year and all we can get at the office is 0.5mbit broadband with 256k upload! because BT refuse to upgrade the exchange and rumours are they are no longer supplying leased lines as low as 2Mbit! They have been warned!.. Also my work PC is now 9 years old this week!! And I'm not allowed an upgrade! [/Rant over] Can totally understand why you'd give it up..

Just a few years ago everythign somehow just seemed to work.. Now manufactueres are tryign to be clever and add their own little quirks and gimmicks to their devices which makes them unique. And therefore more of a B4^&%^rd to work with.. There are standard protocols for computery stuff and they all seem to be gettin broken these days as manufactueres think they know better..

I hate IT systems

When you re-install it is the IP address the same each time? Don't have much experience with the BT home hubs (Or wireless printing ) but I've heard some routers/hubs are quite agressive with switching IP addresses of devices too often.. In normal circumstances they expire after 7 days.. This one may be expirign after a few hours.. If the address is different on the overnight test then that's possibly why they loose conenction with each other.. In which case try manually setting the IP address on the printer and see if that helps.. Or as above P.s. PC's and W7 is the way to go.. Had a shot of a iPad yeasterday and found it unbelievably restrictive in what you can (or shoudl that be can't) do with it.

Always had a thought in the back of my mind about the SIDC running it's own rally car in the SRC or UKRally scene.. Made up of a team of club member mechanics/driver(s)/co-drivers etc... Shame the costs are too frekin steep £5900 if a bit of a bargain if it in working order and still meets current regs

I drive past there everyday, (even with the new bypass) but never filled up there. Just always seemed too cheap IYKWIM, never even filled up the Ka there.. Tend to fill up in Keith these days, unless I'm heading in Inverness direction.

THat's sweet!!

Geez! Just found this thread... You guys need too get a room!! with your baby blue cars BTW - Welcome Mick

Looks like your origonal thread was merged with the new one rather than the other way round.. THat link above linked to your origonal thread but now that one doesn't exist.. .. if that makes sense..

Got speakers installed this month.. Great improvement in sound quality! But seem to have lost a fair amount of Bass Maybe they just need worn in.. Rear 22mm roll bar, replacing front ARB bushes & ALK looking on the cards for next month .. Along with the clean all round (new pressure washer on the way!), quick service, fixing a squeak from the rear right hub and sorting out the damn rattle from the short shifter. Also one of the extra led daytime running lights I added to the front of the car seems to have died after the weekend. probably after I submerged that side of the car in a deep puddle at a parking area at the Snowman rally. Thought they were supposed to be waterproof! Maybe that doesn't quite cover drowning them in a muddy puddle

de-ja-vu http://forums.sidc.co.uk/topic/157615-what-mods-for-2012/

Sounds like a subscription to the sales section.. Now called 'watch'. If you go into your profile: Top right of the page.. Click on your username and select "My Settings" Select the "Forums" tab just under/next to the "Your Options" heading Then select "Manage Watched Topics" and/or "Manage Watched Forums" and I'm guessing in one of those you will be subscribed to something.. Edited to add: Sod it! Here's a couple direct links to the pages: Manage Watched Topics Manage Watched Forums .

Gotta love this forum! The skill comes from the origonal poster deciding what's good info and what's mindless drivel Speaking of which... where is he?

Yeah the T1-sports are supposedly the replacements for the t1r's Different tread pattern and apparently stiffer sidewalls.. Will see when the time comes.. Thinking either them or try a set of Pirelli's depending on prices. For reference, I had RE050's at 215/45/17 on the 17" alloys..