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If he has no Tax (and if he is required to have it by law) then he is not insured either and probibly has no MOT. If this is the case and he hits your car you know whos insurance you will have to claim off, YOURS! Rat him in......I would.

Unless you intend to drive like a Rally driver (or complete loony) don't bother, it takes ages to get it right and most probably you will stuff the car attempting it on the public roads! Have a go at a Rally school and smash there car/gearbox instead!

If these are the same type of gas strut that is fitted to some of the machines that I work on (look about right) then you need to fit them the other way round if possible, the gas has oil suspended in it to keep the seal on the end in good condition. If left in the wrong position they seal will fail and they will stop working a lot quicker then normal.Looks good though.........

Very additive these cars, when I get my next car (which will be a quicker Scooby) I will not be tradeing it in as the wife wants it! And She CANT DRIVE yet!! How mad is that, She told me I was not to let it go!!!

I have renewed with bell direct, 43yo full ncd and a clean licence 5 mods declared, Exhaust, interior, spoiler, K&N, and 17 inch alloys 488 Quid fully comp protected, and I did it on line to! Do a UK search on Google and you should find the site easily enough!

It looks good apart from the Grill and bonnet at the front, to much like an alfa or BMW to me! A matter of opinion I suppose, but I did not by my car because it was trying to look like another brand, it is Subaru with its own distinctive looks! I hope they remember that when it is marketed..........

As above at 3.20!

I got one of these mags, the wife noticed it in town and picked one up for me when She was out shopping, which was nice of Her. The DVD is ok, but not great. The next issue (14th june) has a Scooby shoot out of 120 car (according to its Next Month page) so I will be getting that one, the mag is not a Subaru only mag as with the Scooby mag, it is good though.......... .

Had a Woman slide into the rear of an old Cavilier that I owner about 15 Years ago, after the impact she got out of her car crying and said "Sorry, I cound not stop!". DHOOO........ Could not complain though, I had only paid 500 quid for it and the insurance paid out 720 quid and I still had the car on the road for another 5 years and then sold it on for 200 quid, I did the repairs myself for 60 quid.Hope the Scooby is OK, you might want to check any mounting brackets the bumper has as these can be broken in a impact and it might not show, these were cracked on the Cavilier.

Thanks, nice link and easy to use as well! Well done.

Not had to many bad experiences with other drivers but on Tues. this Week was returning from Weston-Super-Mare back to Bridgwater and on the way back had a dark blue Vauxhall sit right on the boot of the car. After some time I decided to lose the idiot and floored the throttle on a clear bit of road. Left him standing but eventually I got caught up in traffic again. When he caught up he was swerving around behind the cars so I decided to let him pass. I slowed to allow a gap between me and the car in front and waved him passed. He then accelerated passed me and did not pull in, he passed 5 cars in a row and had to cut someone up to avoid hitting a concrete island in the road! The Wife was with me at the time and called him a total *anker! She said he did not look to happy when I blasted him away!! At the end of the day it ant worth the risk in racing someone who will run a red light just to beat you. You made the right choice.

Don't know if this advice should be here or in strictly technical but I have been trying various cures for a shunting in the car at low speed/RPM (i.e. in 4th and running 1500 RPM from 35MPH, or there abouts!). I have found the cars is a lot more derivable if I use either Opitmax or Ultima and not any of the normal unleaded or super unleaded. These give better smoother pick up and more acceleration for the same amount of throttle applied than when using the normal Supermarket fuels, my car being a Uk 95 AWD. Not tried Tosco's 99 ron yet but if I do then I will post my findings in here! Just thought I would let you know what I have found!

Is this the guy with a Scooby? If it is him then I thought he was trying to get off claiming at was an import WRX and had a speed limiter on it? If he pulls you over in the future you could say "I was only getting used to the feel of the car, honest...."

These doors may look OK on a Lambo, but are sad on an impreza, better off getting your car detailed up to look like a WRC in my opinion!

Hello and welcome!

Well done and wecome to a new level of preformace, enjoy it!! Post some pics if you can..

An Olive Green Morris 1100.

Practical Classics (if I recall correctly) did a test on Tin based in line fuel devices a few Years ago when leaded fuel was about to be phased out as a lot of older cars needed the lead to reduce wear in the exhaust valves seats and Tin was supposed to be the next best thing to Lead. They found that they did not work! I think that if you put Lead of any sort into Unleaded fuel you will probably mess up the Cats on the car, so an in Tank gauze full of Lead pellets might not be a good idea if you have a Cat in the Exhaust.

Well, you could sell the car but a better solution might be to make the area where you park the car more secure by having a set of locking bars or gates installed. To be honest thieves will take anything and not just the car and even if you sell the car this will not make you invulnerable to being robbed. A wheel clamp used by the clamping people would be a good deterrent and a Disklock to. What I do is leave may car keys and my disklock and immobiles keys in different hiding places around the house so that if anyone breaks in they will have to do a house wide search to find them, to be secure as you can you have to make it so difficult for them that they will go and pick on an easier target! A friend of mine had someone try to steal his caravan off his drive a few years ago, he now has a wheel clamp and also installed pull up bars (Telescopic ones that are sunk into the concrete and lock when pulled out of the ground) and has had no more troubles, so it can be done! My advice is don't give in to scum, fight back by making your home a hard nut to crack.

Bad news, I have experienced something like the effect that you described once and it was on a very damp road. I had allowed the car to drift onto a solid white line in a 40 zone and as I went into the national speed limit I planted the throttle and the car snapped to the right, luckily for me there was nothing coming the other way or behind me. One side had its wheels on the slippery White lines and the other on the road surface.I remember reading somewhere that this can happen to 4X4 drive cars, if you have one side of the car in good contact with the road and the other on a loose or slippery surface then the LSD diffs will send the drive to the wheels with the grip, in effect the drive will try to turn the car. Don't know if the Scooby has Limited Slip Diffs fitted but I do believe that the older cars like mine have more drive to the front of the car and that makes any event more cacheable as the car under steers more. I think the early Audi Quattro had this problem, especially the short wheel base ones.........so I do not think this problem is limited to the Impreza but if I am wrong then please feel free to correct me. Some rally drivers out there might be familier with this!

Cheers for the advice on the fuel, and I will try the 100% throttle and rear demister, lets see what happens!

Has anyone else tried it with a UK classic car and notice any difference in the way the car drives? Up to now I have been using standard 95 octane fuels or super unleaded and have had a slight misfire or shunt in the drive when accelerating from low revs and high gears, but after various attempts to cure this (Clean the air sensor, WD40 the electric's and so on) I gave this a shot and there is definitely and improvement in derivability in the car. As it is a UK car it should run OK on the standard 95 stuff, could the cars problems be caused by one of the previous owners having had it mapped? If so is there anyway to tell if a car has been chipped or mapped?

These cars should have a health warning on the side "Warning, this car may be additive "......I made the excesses that I was getting to know the car and how it handles when I got mine, nearly a Year ago now. I still find myself jumping into it and going for a blast when I should be doing other things around the Home! Mad.......

Hope subaru are looking, I think they could sale these thing no trouble at all!!! A friend from work told me that the Subaru flat 4 has also been used in small aircraft, possible in kit planes.............

:0 Are they reading the club posts again? A while ago I posted a message asking someone if someone could turn an Impreza into a hatch with a paint shop programe, just to see what it would look like, the result had the side profile of a 944 grafted to the front of a classic ! Spooky or what............ if they can turn out a good looking one it would be more useful, I hung on to my old Cavilier so I can move bulky items around for the simple reasion that is is a hatch. Did a search in the club records and found the link but not sure how to attach it to this post........