Scooby Wagon Addict

Cheers mate.. Saw u in my mirror..love the bugeyes, had 1 myself ..wife was confused asking who the hell I was waving at!

Nice motor! Cheers for the wave Was in the Blue Wagon. Steve

Was me in the wagon! Doing the rounds visiting sofa stores... Cheers for the wave 2nd of the day..must be a record lol! Steve

What driving lamps have any of you fitted? Has anyone fitted LED DRLs like the new VWs and Mercs ? Or do you think that'd look chavy?

As above , think Blobeye Sti , Irish plate (think CEZ) with black Redline Alloys and "support fin things" in the rear high level spoiler Was in the wife's wee Justy parked opposite

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.

Duncan, Aw man .. Gutted for you , but glad you got her back ok .. well done to the police for recovering her! Hope it doesnt cost you too much to get her put right .. suppose that's what insurance is for , esp if you have protected No Claims. When you read about things like this happening it makes you all the more aware .. Best of luck .. let us know how u get on.. Steve ( the guy that comes into the shop who's always talking scoobs with u )

Not sure.. you definately cant buy them from Subaru dealers any more due to the ties with Prodrive being severed Sad thing is this applies to all Prodrive gear for our scoobs which I think is a real shame. Steve

Thanks guys for ur input .. Have magically aquired a Prodrive set thro a friend of a friend .. cant wait to get them fitted! Will get the Eibachs if these dont materialise. Steve

Davey and Gus .. I too have 9 yrs NCB .. This week I just insured through Keith Michaels, ask to speak to Gary Moulsen or tell them its for a modified scoob 1st .. cant recommend them enough .. I dealt with Patrick .. I was with Elephant last year and my renewal came tthro.. £780! Again same old excuse modified cars are high risk .. B***oks! Phoned K.M. and they'll do it for £600 all mods declared and more mod friendly for the future too. I personally HATE LV with a passion! Years ago they're the barstewards who cancelled my policy half way thro its term when they changed their minds on insuring modified vehicles .. couldnt insure through anyone else without it costing £1000s and in the end it cost me the car and a stack of money! Hope this helps, Steve

Thanks marko

Thanks for replying.. The car is an 05 plate with 50k miles on her, had her for 4 months now.. they are standard struts that have never been changed as far as I know. Money's a bit tight tbh and have heard the rears on the Blobeyes are known for knocking problems.. the car's got 6 months left of warranty so here's hoping! Steve

Hi , Gonna get new springs for my WRX Wagon ,, Now that sadly Prodrive Springs are gone I'm looking at fitting a set of Eibachs , ( which I know made the Prodrive ones ).. Are they any good ? I dont want the ride to be hard, just want to improve the ride and handling. Once again your opinions are appreciated. Cheers, Steve

Thanks guys.. Anyone else?

Hi all, I've always gone for official Suabru fitments etc but was wondering for all those who dont get stuff fitted by dealer ,who's best to do the supply,fitting of springs and geometry on my '05 WRX Wagon? Also what do you recommend? Always had Prodrive springs..who makes them? Handy to kno IF I dont go down the dealer supply and fit road. Thanks in advance, Steve

Here's another, looks better just after a wee polish..

There's a lot of lovely wagons on here Here's mine .. Steve

Cheers for that .. it doesnt look so bad when its broken down that way .. My insurance renewal is up in May.. suppose it rests on how much that is, probably going with Keith Michaels for future mod-friendliness

Thanks everyone for your replies .. looks like I'm gonna have to save up bigtime ..or just be greatful with what I've got

Cheers Richie As I said before I'm not after much ..40/50bhp/lbs ft would do me fine..anything's better lol! Being an old fart my only trouble is I dont want any more exhaust noise ..I had a straight thro centre and TSL backbox but put the Prodrive zorst and OEM centre back on ..if I decat/sports cat it'll be even louder.. hell I'd go silent if I could ..stealth is good IMO .. hence me asking if I could keep my setup ..would add a better Panel Filter if it was necessary

Cheers mate .. The famous AndyF Wondered if it was possible without going full decat/Sportscat or changing the filter.. if the PPP on a WRX is just a Remap and downpipe cat removal can someone else do it?

That looks a great clean example .. the 2.0ltrs are good fun Love the shinyness of both your black cars ! Steve

Hi, I've been on the scoob scene for a while but know nothing technical lol! My 05 WRX Wagon is Standard apart from a Prodrive Backbox .. IF I wanted to get a remap for a bit more torque and power could I keep it standard engine and exhaust components? And could I use the existing Subaru ECU? I find the car needs revved up to say 5 or 6k to get that "lightly push u back in ur seat " feeling .. the car runs fine,the turbo pulls fine and engine is sound as it has just had a rebuild. Not had the car that long ..and today has been the 1st day I've given it a good run and a bit dissapointed .. I miss that proper "push u back in ur seat "feeling without thrashing the car ..plus it guzzles petrol so would rather have more low down torque/pull ( if you kno what I mean) Sorry to babble on .. thanks for reading. Steve

Agree with Rig-Pig .. Was once speaking to Mike Wood of Prodrive a few years ago and he said I should always run my car (WRX with PPP at that time) on 98+ ron due to det problems and it retarding.. And to add to that my current WRX (non-PPP) has just had an engine rebuild at the dealership , and been told to run it in gently and only use the likes of V-Power/ Tesco Super Steve

I like it But isn't this just gonna cause more confusion? They've been trying to get the public to recognise the hatch shape (which I have to say really has grown on me...with the rear light mod! ),then they bring this out! I feel that Subaru have lost their identity ,if u kno what I mean..