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thanks for all the genuine wishes and thoughts, health things are still a bit uncertain. but we do have some good news.... we got engaged at the weekend click for pic of engagement ring it take a while to get things sorted but I guess there's no question about what the wedding car will be lol

ahahaa and I've got photographic proof click for Video of '09 Fling, 2 min 13 for pink bathrobe loving all the banter, gutted we can't make it this year have fun y'all

edited to add SCoobywho's Tip to latest thread 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 jealous! 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 76. Give it a wash and a hug every weekend. (stops it spitting you into a ditch) 77. Get your tyres and geometry checked out in the spring - its surprising how much they go out after hitting potholes after the winter

The Vision unit will be at the Start Finish line tomorrow at Altins Hotel Pop by and see Grant if you're passing

Won't know until 2pm this afternoon, will try and post here once Grant finds out

The big news at the moment is that Campbell Roy, Colin's business manager and our 'boss'at the Vision, has signed up as the Sporting Manager of the Mini WRC team. He'll be great at the role and we're excited about how the Mini will fare this season. Campbell was the first person that represented the McRae family that we spoke to when the Gathering was just an idea, and I remember quaking at the thought of meeting him at Jerviswood. Click for article in Autosport Grant will be at the Granite rally this weekend, with a fresh stock of jackets and fleeces, which had to be replenished after fans at the Snowman cleaned us out Our diary for May is busy, 14 May = Rallyshow at Cornbury 21 May = Scottish Motor Show 28 May = Jim Clark We've also confirmed our attendance at Goodwood Festival of Speed, my favourite show from last year

Greenlight are also good for insuring imports. James, interesting view on tracker, I always deliberate whether to renew my subscription or not

good job with the garage, love it fingers crossed for your op, hope it goes as planned and you recover quickly x

Thanks for the support guys Grant will be taking the unit to all SRC rounds this year. Lewis, not sure where we'll be for the Granite, either scrutineering or service area probablt. Stuart, hope you get to see some rally action today.

Race Retro event was down near Coventry. Jimmy was driving in the rally stage and Bill Gwynne Motorsport brought along the 92 Legacy that they restored and look after We also had the Pirelli simulator on our stand and brought along the Sierra Cosworth and the retail unit The evening dinner was a fundraising event for the Vision, hosted by Kevin Furbar I think Grant and I were just in awe of some of the names and faces that were there and were happy to just be in the background and absorb everything. dancing girls Nicky Grist giving the after dinner speech and winner of Colin's "Ford Martini" overalls, with Jimmy, Hollie and Alison. The woman in the red is Gemma somebody, a TV presenter on something or other one of the games in between courses was to see who could make the best paper aeroplane. Each table had to nominate an "engineer" to build it and a "pilot" to go up to the front and fly it can anyone guess who was the engineer at our table?

ok, seems I can't edit my first post Calendar of Vision events 2011: 19 Mar 2011 ... Border Counties Rally ... Jedburgh, Scottish Borders 16 Apr 2011 ... Granite City Rally ... Aberdeen, Grampian 14 –15 May ... Rallyshow ... Cornbury 21 –22 May ... Scottish Motorshow ... Knockhill Fife 27 - 29 May ... Jim Clark Rally ... Kelso, Scottish Borders 19 June ... The Lost Boys Rally ... Lanark 25 Jun ... Scottish Rally ... Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway 30 June -3 July ... Goodwood Festival of Speed 17 July ... Total Jap Scotland ... Knockhill 24 July ... Subaru Weekender ... Wales 6 Aug ... Speyside Stages ... Elgin, Moray 3 Sep ... Merrick Forest Stages ... Wigtown, Newton Stewart 17 Sept ... Rallyday ... Castle Coombe 1 Oct ... McRae Forest Stages ... Perth, Perth & Kinross

ok then, seems that folk are lurking and at least reading the updates I'll udpate my first post with the events we're attending and details of cars that will be there. John, the Subaru weekender is happening. We'll be taking the unit and probably one of the cars to it. I know that Prodrive are supporting the event and we're trying to convince them to bring N1 WRC to the show. We'll be going there for the Sunday show, will give the Saturday tour around Wales a miss. We've already done 3 shows in 2011: Monte Carlo - George Sq Glasgow is the closest location that we've traded at so far Snowman - heavy weight jackets and beanies sold very well. Thanks to GMac and Scooby222's crowd for helping Grant out at that event Race Retro & drivers ball - didn't really sell that much as we were located next to the jumble sale The drivers ball was great, I'll put up some stories and pictures later. Imy x

I'm going to stop posting in here about what we get up to with the Vision events. It just feels like I'm just talking to an empty room or going on about it to folk that are not interested. I'll keep my updates to my Facebook page cheers, Imy

yikes thats a lot of change. All the best for the move and hope you settle in the new place ok imy x

wont make it this year, its the same weekend as the Pirelli International and we're on Vision duty been to the last 2 and they were cracking weekends have fun y'all imy

awful news Our sympathy and condolences to the family and friends of both Graham and Connor. thanks to "friend of spot2" for taking the time to sign up and sharing your friendship with us, he sounds like a true enthusiast and will be missed by those that knew him Imy and Grant x

the first event that the McRae Vision are attending in 2011 is the Glasgow start point of the Rallye Monte Carlo Historique rally on Thursday 27 Jan. Around 50 teams will start from Blytheswood Sq and, after going through control in Paisley, will travel through Kilmarnock, Dumfries, Scotch Corner then down to Dover, bound for France. The Vision retail unit will be at George Square. Come along and experience the festivities Click for info on RallyBuzz site

thanks to those of you that have replied. Things have been rocky in 2010, with some great highs and crappy lows. Priorities have changed and it was hard to decide to sell the Banana, but we don't really use both cars and with maintenance/fuel costs going up, it was the sensible thing to do. We're going to carry on helping with the Vision events and will be lurking about the forum and online. Interested to see if the new committee bring some life back into the club and we've still got the RA to go to some events

Happy new year everybody

congratulations to your new wee arrival all the best to you and your family

well done everyone, sounds like a good day, the presents will be appreciated by Yorkhill. how much was raised this year?

1. STI Pretender 2. Greersport 3. Greersport 4. Burgy_51_ 5. Burgy_51_ wife 6. Mr badbaz 7. Mrs badbaz 8. scooby222 9. Mrs scooby222 10. empty heed 11. empty heed 2 12. bigbob 13. miss bigbob 14. terzo neil 15. Midnight21 16. gbsti 17. Mrs gbsti 18. bobbyc 19. Mags 20. Des 21. Des's Mag 22. Dougs Scoob 23. Mrs Dougs Scoob 24. Joe G 25. Mrs Joe G 26. And Joe G Junior 27. jimser 28. caitlin 29. gary d 30. leslie 31. craig 32. loopy lou 33. Irish Al 34. Lynsey 35. Kebab Nemesis 36. burgy_51_ brother 37. burgy_51_ brothers patner 38. Meercat 39. Meercat 40. Dale 41. marky.t.s 42. scary mary 43. marko72 44. Miss 72 45. Karps 46. Mrs Karps 47. s25yme 48. Mrs 5yme 49. Scoobymark 50. Scoobymark Wife 51. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 1 52. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 2 53. Scoobymark Scooby mad wean 3 54. 55.

well done Robert, Glyn and Dale fingers crossed for a smooth handover and a new future for the club

for those that don't know, these are the candidates for the role of Chairman and Secretary and voting will run until 30th Nov 2010 Chairman of SIDC candidate 1 - Frenchy candidate 2 - STI Pretender Membership Secretary of SIDC candidate 1 - SHESCOOBY Candidate 2 - jointly between BalliSTIc & thefastone

just back from the 1st scottish scoobies xmas ball and had a blast! Hadnt laughed that much in ages and it's also a while since I woke up feeling slightly rough thanks to Dave 222 for organising this and getting it together, the venue, dinner, dance and atmosphere was spot on thanks too to Bobby and Gary for sorting out the music. The equipment, set and tunes were great and really helped pull off a great night. nice to socialise with everyone again and great to see folks in kilts and frocks the secret santa gifts were a brilliant touch, though I ended up with a bottle of Buckfast! the windy up toys and Stig stuff kept folk amused, esp at our table where we had racing grannies and horses. lets see the photos and vids, there were plenty of pictures being taken. oh and Dave, well done in the karaoke but its probably best you don't apply to the X-Factor imy