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As Brian has said, carry a full size spare wheel or face the prospect of a LONG drive home, but getting close to 30 MPG!!

Always remember that the handle to raise and lower the jack is attached to the underside of the bootboard in an Impreza so that you dont rip all the skin off your knuckles using a screwdriver to do the same job.........

Oh, and of course, avoid the inbred, incestuous sister shagging moron driving the breakdown truck towards you wearing a moronic grin and forcing you into a pothole the size of his mothers whatsit!!!

Count me in, had a great time last year.

Aye lookin good min, the ends of my strut brace could be doin wi a tart up - where did you get the paint and what colour is it? If you find the hoses to match let me know!!

Good point. I think I will tape up the gauge and just leave the light showing. That way it wont annoy me anymore

It's a little-known fact that the standard Impreza stereo has a button that, when pressed, improves the sound quality dramatically

...that button is the 'OFF' switch.

Mine is exactly the same. I took it back under warranty and they told me "they all do that"!! Most i've chanced out of a tank is 230 miles and that was on this years Highland Fling weekend!

Necer mind the squint & out of centre sticker you need to get rid off that crap stereo, would compliment your gauges old man hmmmmm

Aye, feckin badge kept fallin off! Now straight and secure. Stereo? ye cana hear the feckin thing anyways!

Fairly makes a difference ,and i paid £150 which i that was reasonable.

Where did you get it done?

Looking good Graeme, think i'll have to get mine done now!!

Steering wheel badge

Well today my after market RB320 steering wheel badge arrived in the post.

So, without thinking it through, I armed myself with a kitchen knife and made a hasty exit out back to begin tackling the transformation from STI in the centre of the wheel to RB320.

Giving it as little thoguht as possible, I proceeded to attack the STI badge and pull away at it, bending it. I thought ''if this was meant to come out, it would be a lot easier'' and suddenly realised i had made an error of considerable magnitude.

I started to try and get the slightly bent STI badge back into place and obviously each time I did so, the horm went off.

Now I was feeling concsious of my presence and decided to drive down the road and sit quietly trying to get it back into place.

Each time the horn blasted, people looked, a man sitting in a group 20 car, fiddling with a knife around the general control area.

Sweary words coming from me, people looking, knife in hands, old women cowering as their fingers looked for the 999 buttons on ther mobiles. lol

Eventually got it all sorted and peeled off the RB320 backing and stuck it over the STI badge like I should have done to begin with.

This story backs up the reason I hit the ball like tiger but have a 17 handicap. I simply have no concentration !! what a chod !

I heated up the plastic with a hairdryer and the STi badge came out no problems. I then ground down the ribbed bits in the badge hole bit and popped in the RB320 badge - sits flush and looks better i think? I did mark the steering wheel a bit which is a bummer. I also used a RB320 splitter badge to cover the STi badge on the rev counter but i'm still not sure if that was a good idea - see picture.

Mine does exactly the same - wind noise caused by the frameless doors i've been told - crank up the stereo and forget about it !!

FFS mate, that's a close call - just a relief that everyone is OK!!!

Nice motor mate, think i've seen it in town a couple of times.

Love the RB320, my favourite looking newage.

You lucky guy!

Here's a photo of my WRX, I got the bottom grill painted 32J to match the car, just to give you an idea...

I think it finishes off the front end well, rather than having the large gaping hole there, and doesnt look as out of place as the chrome grill does

Like it, thats my mind made up, black lower grill it is!!

I'll be keeping this one a long time Wayne..

Well done Tommo, i thought you had those "I want one" looks when were chatting in Ullapool. I have the stickers for the fog light covers as well and will get them on soon. Like some of the others have mentioned I'm thinking of getting the lower grill powder coated black - once i get the fcukin thing straightened out - watch them pesky rabbits mate!! may well get the upper ones done as well but don't really want to change the original look of the car too much?

DAMN! The person I was thinking of is a known bike thief in Aberdeen and I was hoping to give him a doing again! He stole a bike of mine a few years back.

Blair, you need to get back to those anger management classes min !!

BalliSTIc

scooby222

alzayuk300

subarucraig

Hoss

I'll be there provided the hangover isn't too bad! Don't wait for me - if i'm going to be there i'll be early!!

Tarmacs first, Redlines second Stevie boy

Gus

Cought two little s**** bags trying all the car doors as thay walked up my street tonight. I was sat in the car installing windows 7 and saw them coming in the drivers side mirror. I have limo tinted windows so they obviously did not see me When I got out they both crapped themselves and then ran.

Long story short I got a hold of one and have his phone, he goes to RGU and now has got no hope of becoming a surgeon or playing piano.

He promised that he would never walk down my street or even look at a Subaru again whilst he filled his shoe full of pee.

The other one said I was dead in a very well spoken voice as he ran like a little girl, I may lose a little sleep.

You big bully that you are, threatening the little bastar*s like that! Hope you gave them a right good fcukin kickin !!

Great looking motor Al, enjoy!!

Every story has 2 sides lads, we all know that. Be sure your sins will find you out eh!

1. If your sidelights won't switch off look for the parking light switch on top of the steering column .

2. Use the search function on the forum before asking the same old question .

3. The best first mod for an impreza is the exhaust (backbox at least)

4. Buy a classic

5. Make sure you get regular quality oil / filter changes every 3 - 4000 miles

6. Always run the car on good quality fuel - V Power/BP Ultimate/Tesco 99 and add octane booster for safety in an unremapped import

7. Avoid "chip"ing an impreza - get it remapped by an expert like AndyForrest (Apexi for classics, ECUtek for newage)

8. Sell the Newage and buy a Classic

9. Always wait till the engine is nice and warm before giving it full pelt and let it cool down befrore switching it off

10. Upgrade your brakes before modding the engine

11. A VTA dumpvalve isnt really a good idea unless your car is getting remapped to compensate for it.

It will momentarily make your car run rich as the ecu gives fuel for air which has been dumped and not recirculated. All you are missing is the gay noise.

12. Solid rear droplinks and a decent suspension geometry set-up are probably one of the best sub-£100 modifications you can do to a standard car.

13. new ages will undertseer when at the limit

14. If you have a classic get Strutt Braces. The improvement is outstanding! If you have a new age...no luck! loL!

15. Clean out the boost solenoid once in a while and dont fill engine oil right up to max.

16. Go to the SIDC track days at knockhill, you get free tuition from an instructor if you want

17. Love every minute of driving and owning it (it will make handing over the credit card much easier)

18. Goto meets/Knockhill/Crail and tell us who you are?We don't bite sometimes

20. Join the SIDC and you'll get discounts on insurance and dealer supplied parts in addition to track days.

19. For some obscure reason there is a lot of mention of goats & homosexuals in here. Do NOT let this put you off our forums. 99% of our members are "normal" but we are all fans of The Hoff.

20. Always prefill the oil filter when doing an oil change

21. Dont believe everything you read on the forums.

22. Send off for a Shell card

23. What ever BHP you get, you will never be happy

24. BLUE is the best colour.

25. Is your car standard? - leave it that way.

26. Watch out for the Impreza's "lift-off" oversteer. It's wicked, particularly on a wet Knockhill!

27. wave to other scoob drivers

28. never buy a set of lexus rear lights

29. sidc love some photography of your beloved

30. dont sell your scoob you will regret it and will end up with another 1

31. The best place to hang out on saturday nights is at OSIDC

32. Modding is for MEN

33. Going JDM is for winners..........leave the chocolate UK's to the Willy Wonka lovers!

34.^^Andy speaks the truth, JDM is the way forward!!

35. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid and don't mod what doesn't need modding (dump valves etc)

36. NEVER let the other half known how much youve spent on the car.she will be jelious!

37. Dont go to Halfords for your servicing parts - they are more likely to give you filters for a lada or skoda.

38. the bright button really does just make the clock brighter

39. Never believe anything read on Ebay

40. Never buy a impreza when you get 10 spare ST2 (spaceman)

41. CLASSIC ARE The GREATEST IMPREZA BUILT.

42. Try not run your impreza top end as the boxes dont last long(went through 3 last time)

43. Believe the petrol gauge - yes it does use that much!

44. if you have mudflaps watch when reversing near kirbs or they get caught on wheels and bye bye back bumper

45. Your steering wheel lock isn't broken, you're supposed to have to turn it 180 degrees before it engages.

46. Boost solenoid 'chatter' isn't necessarily indicative of a fault (although the Scoob moguls say it can be eradicated the by above-mentioned cleaning).

47. Uneven tyre wear is common.

48. 10 miles use out of a set of newage shocks isn't unheard of - but if you're still under warranty, they're covered.

49. The rear proximity alarm (on newer Imprezas) tells blatant lies in the rain.

50. Door panels dent quite easily.

51. It's won't stop entertaining you on twisty roads!

52. Never use the standard horn in an aggressive manner in a road rage situation, you will just look silly!!

53. You will find that Classic owners are really insecure: they talk about how good their cars are over their Newage counterparts.

They be fooling themsleves but they soon realise not to listen to what TheWelsho has to say

54. Welsho knows as much about cars as Fish know about Riding Bicycles !

55. you will find most newage owners have a huge chip on there shoulders because

A) they have lost 3/4 of the value of there cars through depreciation over two years

B.) they weigh a bloody ton

C) they are almost all are blue with gold wheels

D) they are jelous of there classic brothers who continually spank them round knockhill

56. Try not to hold your foot to the floor and do 140mph + for mile after mile, they dont like this and tend to go POP, Take it up have a play and bring it down again.

57. If water/coolant pissed out of the front bumper at the passenger side, then you have more than likely over filled your coolant (overflow pipe) and not burst a pipe.

58. You will find that Classic owners who have bought Newage quickly revert to classic's as they find out VERY quickly just how good the classics are compared to floaty newage boats

59. If in absolute doubt, ask the question. someone will know!

60. If you intend to mod your scooby to anything over 400bhp, you'd better off starting with a newage STI.Atleast you'll never need to replace the gearbox unless you are pure brutal.

61. Don't post Ken Block's Gymkhana vid.

62. Forget all this "Classics are this, New Ages are that" rubbish. ALL Scoobs are feckin ace

63. you will always stop what you are doing when you hear a scooby burble approaching... firstly to check its not your car but then just to check it out and listen to it going by

64. Buy the best parts you can afford so you won't need to upgrade them again later

65. Once you start modding it's hard to stop and newage 2.5's rule!

66. Go on the SIDC track days - gives you the safest environment to learn how to handle your car, fairly risk and damage free

67. Buy a 'Hatch' it's the way forward

68. Every time you look at your Subaru you will smile and be glad it's your car a feel good factor (not many cars give you that satisfaction)

69. Dont let you Wife/Girlfriend drive it or you might get it back looking different to how you last seen it.

70. Dont park your car in multi-story car parks or area's were there may be NED's hanging around as your car will either be stolen or vandalised!!

71. Buy a second car (Not a Scoob) so that when your Scoob breaks down you still have a car to drive about in

72. You will never tire of listening to the burble and will laugh like a small child when it pops, bangs and sets off car alarms

73. Folk that have sold their scoobs always seem to miss it when its gone. Learn from this and don't sell !

74. Dont skimp when buying tyres .. can make a massive difference .. stick to for eg Toyo Proxes, Goodyear Excellence, Michelin Pilots etc.. none of yer Nankang, cheapy rubbish.

75.never buy a used subaru or any used car infact from evans halshaw, unless you like paying for it but never actualy owning it as its always sitting at the back of their garage getting fixed

F8ck me mate you have a fantastic sense of humour - if I was you i'd be sitting in a corner in feckin tears!!

I had a great day, well done to everyone for getting things set up. Felt sorry for the guy in the 106 - gearbox sounded really sick!

Like BrianM's "adjustable" rear spoiler set up - "oh f*ck, the boot is open"

Hope there are more Scoobies at it next year!!

Any update on this?