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Cheers Andy, the Forester is an N/A, as is our Impreza GX, so a crossports would be first venture into turbo ownership. the front pipe to cat flange joints are known to rot on N/As but hoping the tester was just being cautious and it will last a few years Just live in Scotland a few days a month plus a few weeks a year really, just a part timer. cheers, Colin.

Bloody hell, youve dug deep there highland forry/ leftasaltytaste! If a ( very) northern englishman who has a little old remote cottage in SW Scotland (thats 30 miles more south than my NE English home and an exhillarating 164 mile drive away especially in winter) counts, maybe i can add myself to the list??? p. s. The 2003 (uk salty roads) forester passed its MOT today with whatever the word for advisories is these days, for undertray and sill covers fitted, and a rusty front pipe to cat flange joint. So another year to go, at least, and the impreza not due inspection till next year. P.s.2 . Welcome, if you ever need advice, this forums the one. p.s3: Im still hovering whether to buy a crossports or other jap import? Old school reliability and relative simplicity versus modern un-needed "technology" but so much complexity with cross matching parts with uk cars/sources when needed. best wishs no. 160 on the list. CCRIEN

Good luck,. Try running a bit of cable as an extra earth wire between a metal part of the light circuit board and a bare nut on the body and see if it works.

Check the earth in the side that doesn't work??

Was looking to come up to it but am off to India instead with work for a week, so let us know all about it and maybe get up next year if it becomes an annual thing.

Good to hear you're still around Mark. That car will still be a good one in years to come then.

Good observation! Not sure where everyone's gone. Watch out mind, or you might get to be "top poster" of the day from a new post, when it's like this.

Good prompt, Looks interesting and attendance is a possibility

Bet it feels like you've been robbed ! ( even more than before ). Lol

LOL It's definitely a wet area, poor or not. Still got my tax discs on until they expire. Paid for them so why not leave them stuck on just to show I'm not quite so poor. Look closely at mctwistuk's. Expired end September, so we can't tell whether he's paid or not from October, unless you have an ANPR thingy

Good luck with the new car, sounds like a good one

Spect you put a bit waxoyl or grease on the front " crossbar" rusty bits as well? Les see the pics of the new wings then.

Good luck with the wedding arrangements Davey. Northumberland is great ain't it? at least once you're out on the back roads a mile or two from home. Cod fishing out in the rib has been pretty poor this year which is odd (but forester is a great towcar on soft stuff), so have filled in our weekends with other things- forester for the camping trailer the other week, Impreza (only a GX ) is good for the odd run over to SW Scotland or early morning run out on the slow bendy roads.

You mean your wedding or someone else's? If it's yours you won't ever be "back to normal again". Just kidding, been married 31 years now !