StewartyBoy

So what your saying is my mates a tight barsteward. Slagging coming his way!!

Those skirts dont look like they are blended, just fixed on as per the norm as Jon said. As for my opinion on the spoiler. When changing a friends from low to high on the classic, the mounting points were wider apart. It may be that it was'nt an OE spoiler but it led me to believe that due to the overhang from its fixing point, it needed to have wider fixings.

Due to hi and low level spoilers having a different distribution of weight, the holes are further apart for the latter. A drill and tiger seal to stop moisture getting in should sort that. From experience, all bumpers and skirts are interchangeable. Rear lights (wagon to saloon) are not interchangeable.

Know nothing about the car, but from the list of mods and whats recently been replaced from experience I reckon it may have hard a hard life. For the price 3-3.5 should get you a pretty good and half decent mileage UK Turbo as well.

WOW! This is good to know for the future. Didnt realise they were so bad!!

Personally no... but I have heard that delivery takes a while by a couple of mates who have bought stuff. Is this guy not based in Clydebank!?

Yeah. HID have lenses to direct the focus of light and cosume all of the energy rather than letting the light "fade out". All Impreza's (classics) don't have projection lenses. HID bulbs can still be fitted along with ballasts, but are missing the projection part of the hardware. Some people say they have had MOT failures, some not. I'm sure someone will be along to explain technicality.

HID kits are great, but I'd be very apprehensive on a Classic as it does'nt have a projection lense. Im sure someone had opened up a set of headlamps and fitted Mercedes HID to a Classic before.

Well thats ruddy handy isnt it. Shouldnt say that aloud or I'll have you over wiring up my orange strobes that health and safety keep moaning about me getting!

Ive got the 5 bulb wedge LED's Jase. Make a huge difference to the yellow ones. Yup, LED's create low resistance therefore you need to buy ones with either an inbuilt resistor or if you have issues with the lights flashing faster or warning lights a parallel resistor can be fitted.

Mightve missed another thread Jon but how is the car in question...?

I recently swapped a friends A4 S-line B8's foglight bulbs to LED ones, as she wanted more pimp lights on it (its already white with Mahoossive alloys). At first I slagged her for swapping the bulbs, but once I fired them up I began to see the point. Her argument was that she wanted to use them as driving lights, but didnt want to drive round like a bam with foglights on but have LED's that would match and compliment the LED's in her headlights. They actually looked pretty good, and no hassle from the cops as they arent anywhere near powerful enough to blind anyone...

Yeah know what you mean. So you would recommend them then? Like I said, the Saabs seem to be pinky but Ive noticed tonight, sitting at the lights there was the facelift 9-3ss on an 58 plate and its bulbs were pinky as well. Typical GM.

Can the above bulb be used as a brakelight Frank.

1w apparently! Just had a read through and due to the lack of consumption some cars think the filament bulb has blown causing them to flash fast so a resistor has to be put in place. Some LED's have these in place already, or they have to be physically wired in line.

I'd had a look online and they safety aspect of them is much better than filament. The Saabs filaments almost look a pinky colour, which for a 2005 car is strange. I was gonna upgrade all the bulbs in the interior as well to a white colour i.e interior lights, door open/shut etc. Just gives the car a fresher look. http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/

I've found a company that will do it, just wondered what the legality of the brakebulbs would be. I know it was a bit of a grey area and wanted to know if anyone has done it. Do the Hatches have LED bulbs?

Upgrading a few things on my 9-3ss and decided to change a few bulbs. Ordered Brilliant white festoon L.E.D bulbs for the number plate surround on the rear like a lot of BMW's have these days. Has anyone changed standard brakelight bulbs over to L.E.D before. Is this possible!? Any help would be appreciated.

HAH DO NOT SELL THAT BEEMER!! I love Impreza's and understand you need more room, but that is one sexy looking car!

HAHA his website is stranger. Was a good one for bamming up the teachers at High School. "SCREEEAMMMMMMMM IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER"

Glasgow Meet is usually the first Thursday of every month at the Harvester in Hillington. Kicks off usually 7/7.30

Agree with both above. Set out what you intend on doing to the car and in what timeframe. If your going to change turbo's, injectors, pumps, headers etc etc, the best thing to do would be buy them all over the timeframe and have them installed before a single remap. Like Trackhound said, it will save you a fortune but you'll expect best gains from a tailor made re-map, rather than having someone install plug 'n' play parameters from someones laptop in an industrial estate.

I'm pretty sure no-one will mind mate. I obviously am not one of the owners, but cameras are out all the time at meets and no-one has an issue with showing off their pride and joy! Is this a College/Uni project mate!? It's a good subject with a really broad spectrum I suppose.

HAHA VERY true! We once had a guy when I was an Apprentice who had decided to topup his engine oil. Now, bare in mind that this guy owns a 3.0TDi S-Line A6 so I would've given the guy credit for being in a reasonably good job and probably getting there with hard work and intelligence. He complained that the car was smoking heavily and was DISGUSTED that a 4 month old car was consuming such a vast amount of oil and did not expect that from such a brand of motor vehicle. He had topped the car up...to the top of the filler neck. Dipstick? Quite literarily.

It has been proven time and time again that Gatso cameras are inaccurate. Made by the Germans, their Government refused to use them on basis that vibrations, reflections and angle were all contributing factors to the speed traps giving nonsense readings. If the Camera is pointed at a fixed point (say a road sign) and Lorry driven passed it, the vibrations of the truck can set off readings due to frequency distorting it. Reflections of frequency from other cars can distort frequency. If you have a 2 lane dual-carriageway (like Barrhead Main Street), the camera has a sweep angle i.e the distance from a fixed point to that of focus, with the closest lane having the correct sweep angle for calibration. How can it evaluate the 2nd lane as it has a further distance from the fixed point and only one lens to calibrated...?