micra_wrc

Gav, what are you on? Its still a Type R. ie a JDM car.

eeh BalliSTic, when did you become the Tayside RO? well done for stepping up, I know that Jonboy and Debs have been having car/internet problems and havent been around recently.

check out this thread thats been pinned in the Events section events are handily broken down into months

yeah it was a bit of a long day. last year, we travelled up on the Saturday morning, think it was a 0630 departure from Stirling, and I was falling asleep mid-Saturday afternoon at the tour of the distillery.

aye us too "oh you're part of the Subaru lot, thats nice, you're getting booked in nice and early, good stuff" was what I got

aye, well, knowing the calibre of the regulars I'd be booking a room for myself if I was single

the pics on the website are fab. good job on the group tariff and I like the idea about eating in the hotel restaurant

for the recent crop of new owners 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

Edited to change this to an Update thread, to save starting multiple threads on the forum Update 4 Feb 10 We are still in touch with the folks at the Vision charity and they told us that Alison donated £35,000 to Yorkhill last week to help buy specialist medical equipment for a new paediatric intensive care ambulance. The Gathering is mentioned in the press release More info here

may 1st/2nd suits us better

I like the pink but won't downgrade my STi for a WRX though!

Dunk, there's no track, its more of a "park up and see other cars" type of do. going by the rules from last year, it needs a lot more organising if we are wanting to put together a stand... stands will be judged on things like: - the stand - banners /signage; bunting/ flags; use of colour/equipment; position of vehicles; impact of display; - the cars - variety of models; good standards of cars; boards and specs on cars; - club HQ - quality of tents/ equipments; club info/leaflets etc; catering/hospitalility; SWAG and kid friendly; - club activities - roles of members; details of club activities; club regaila /uniforms; - wow factor - desire to win; the X Factor; club theme. its not really an event we can horse together a stand and just turn up to. if this is too much to take on we can go, spectate and wander around, it is quite a good day out and not that far away. personally I've not got the time to organise this.

video from last year's trip

you been out "frying" the roads again sweetie?! edit to add that the format of the last one was fine, perhaps a bit more pub-time would be good, as its rare that we get to drink together as a group.

omg am so glad I wasn't eating or drinking when reading this thread, it would have gone all over the computer for sure

thought it could be Gumball at first but my vote goes to Dave

aw Martin was looking at the pics hoping it wasnt your wagon. gutted for you. At least no one was injured and your wee fella/missus wasnt in the car.

Do places like Elephant, Admiral and Privilege insure imports?

fair enough but don't buy a limited edition and then modify it to take away the bits that make it special in the first place.

holy crap thats shocking i'd be less worried if they had just stuck a Series McRae badge in the interior but dear lord, what were they thinking with that paint job, rear lights, spoiler.... actually what were they thinking?! he can't spell Impreza and even listed the colour as 'blue' such a waste of a special model

Been thinking about Dougie over the New Year and wondering how Derek and the Cotter family are getting on. agree with Gus, he was a tremendous guy, always laughing and smiling and never let his disability hinder him. hope this isnt too much bad taste but want to show how much he meant to us - this is the wreath that Scottish Scoobies organised for him.

I read this before you added the pictures and couldnt think of what to say now looking at the damage makes me even angrier at this random mindless violence and the nightmare they have caused you. hope you can get this sorted without too much grief or expense, I really feel for you Noel

no new mods for the RA, just maintenance and upkeep for me get the stitching of the McRae/Ringer signatures on the seats freshened up get flaking bits of paint on my alloys fixed the winter valet I won from c_wrx will bring the paintwork back to life

feel for ya it is well travelled and doesnt make sense for anyone else to steal it not good. we don't have any left, the last ever Gathering sticker we had went on the replica Network Q ramp for the cheque handover