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Yup, that's the one I have. I prefer the look of it sitting further back, the ones flush with the front of the bumper look odd to me. Funny thing is that the Spec D's come with a grill (as the revolution one) as std whereas the std STi doesn't have anything.

I fitted the lower one on my hawkeye from Revolution, IMO it's pretty close in looks to the original top one. Wasn't overly expensive either IIRC.

Yeah, was never really bothered about tints before but changing film like that (and at that price too) seems pretty damn good... damn... :kerstsmiley:

Thank goodness the wife made the final descision on our second daughters name... if it had been me who decided to call her Maia and then the wife read this bit about Subaru and Maia being somewhat linked I think I'd be getting beaten up

It's come direct from Subaru, I'm guessing that people who've bought a new car in the last year or two will get it, not sure if they will send it out to everyone who's bought subarus before that or not?

Yeah, I got mine thru' the other day as well. Thought it was okay, bit light on content maybe but then it's the first issue. Not sure how often it's likely to come out as I only read thru' it quickly?

Would want it with a sports cat though, which always seems to bump the price up a bit. Meercat build the system the way you want though don't they, so if you wanted a sports cat you could have it "installed" wherever you wanted in the system couldn't you? I had been looking more at the Miltek systems originally but the Meercat ones sound like they are pretty damn good as well. Oh, and waiting 'cos atm with xmas there isn't enough for the remap on it's own let alone an exhaust as well Next year possibly though

Superb... that's why I love all these forums <heads off to read a 38 page thread>

I'm like yourself, the car is a daily driver and while I don't want anything too OTT noise wise (last scoob was quite loud and it got to be a bit of a PITA TBH on long runs... droned a bit too much). As to whether I wouldn't want anything with mental power... hmmm... not too sure I'm with you on that one What I would want, if I was able to have a mental power one, would be a switchable map, so I could have it std in the winter when the extra power is likely to be more of a hassle and then full power in the summer time Oh, and like yourself, trying to get a £1k exhaust and then a £600+ remap past the wife in a single go is going to be tough, if not damn near impossible

Indeed. The duty increase was probably a good idea at the time, the only issue is that now that the price of oil is going up so high, the duty on top of it makes a much bigger rise than we're all comfortable with.

Caterham looks cool. As to wheelspin, I've only ever done it once, few months after I got the first scoob. Had been used to Pug GTi's before so was used to cars that rev'd quite freely. What I hadn't worked out (first turbo'd car), was that when you buzzed the engine the revs didn't drop back down as quick as they did on the Pug, so as I sat at a junction buzzing the engine I hadn't really noticed that the revs were now sitting at ~4500rpm or so, when I saw a gap and went for it I spun all the wheels (was turning tight to the right as well), which threw me sideways onto the dual carrigeway, luckily I managed to catch it, lift slightly to let the wheels get grip and go for it. Gave me a HUGE smile and I wanted to go back to the junction to try it again

Where do you find petrol at those prices? work it out... it's changed since then (upwards unfortunately).

When I spoke to Andy about remapping my std 06 STi, he said that the downpipe in them (not sure if yours is the same) is really restrictive, so I'd say that the best option would be to do the full exhaust at the same time as the remap at the very least.

Dredging up an old post as I was looking for the link to the Meercat site and came across this again. Did you ever post up your vid from your phone? If not, fancy doing it now?

So if you are both RO's now, how come your "bit" under the avatar hasn't changed yet?

Read that other thread just now... Glad it seems to all be over now, can't believe some people. Maybe the guy bought it and then tried to insure it and only then realised how expensive it was gonna be and figured he'd try and get some of that back from the seller... scam artist anyway by the looks of it. Good to see a few members from here were available to help out though

Yup, the thing that annoys more than anything is the fact the something like 70-80% of the cost of fuel is duty/tax... the actual cost of the fuel itself is FA. Think someone mentioned that the current cost of fuel (around a fiver a gallon), just over four quid goes to the chancellor for every gallon (possibly more). THAT IMO is what's so f***** up. Wouldn't mind if it was actually spent on the roads or public transport but I'll bet it's not. That goes for all the money we spend in new car tax, insurance tax, VAT, Fuel duty, road tax, etc...

Got to say I'm not a huge fan of the white wheels either. They do work on certain cars (white ones for example) but generally don't add anything IMO. I do like the anthracite coloured wheels, etc due to the brake dust hiding qualities... I mean I couldn't keep the gold/bronze wheels looking clean so I'd have no chance in hell of ever keeping white wheels looking white.

Yup... as daft as it sounds someone in a crap car can make a fool of you if it's a road you don't know well. The 94 wagon I had was pretty damn quick when the TD05 was on boost, but on a back road I'd not been on before, I was pretty humiliated by a Mk11 Fiesta (non XR model as well). I have no idea what he had under the bonnet but the fact he knew what speed he could go round the bends at helped a lot, I was going into bends that looked quick only to find them tightening up massively (thanks to the AP brakes not an issue), but it left me well off boost so in the end I can expect that he went back to his mates claiming that scoobs weren't as quick as everyone thought. I know I've done the same to other cars both in and out of the scoob on roads I know well as well. I'm nowhere near as bad as I used to be... was almost always set on the "headbutt the horizon" mode when I was younger, didn't matter what car it was I had, the redline was hit in virtually all gears regardless. Am a lot more laid back these days, don't drive the STi as hard on a daily basis as I used to drive that old wagon, mind you the torque that the 2.5 has compared to the 2.0 I had makes a lot of difference as well, don't need to rev it as hard. I do know what you mean with other cars trying it on, have found a few cars pushing on that I've followed and they try all manner of dangerous overtakes to "leave me in their dust", only for me to get past safely on the next straight and be right behind them again. I've found the best thing is to try and not be sucked in at all... if someone blasts past and you aren't in the mood or think they're acting like a tit then let them go and relax. TBH, I think it was driving an old Disco V8 that helped me a lot, it's not a quick motor at all and I found it quite relaxing driving it and didn't bother at all if someone overtook, some of that has rubbed off while driving the STi now.

Like I said, if you (either of you) need any extra help then I'm sure there'll be plenty of others in the area ready and willing to lend a hand.

Don't recall posts about it at the time, but did someone buy the car after it had been rolled/damaged then? Surely if it had been repaired properly then it's almost as good as new (although I doubt I'd ever trust a motor if I knew it had been seriously damaged in the past).

IMO, you'll always get people like this in any performance car, maybe you've just been lucky up until now with them not plaguing you before the scoob? I know that while I may partake in the odd "acceleration challenge", I rarely push myself or the car further than I feel is safe, hell, an Astramax van can do about 120mph IIRC so speed means FA, even round twisties. While the scoob can handle being pushed well round corners, etc if it's not clear I still like to leave enough room to be able to brake if there is an immoveable object in the road, plus I've always driven with the state of mind that I should expect to meet myself coming the other way, in other words, whatever speed you are willing to take a corner at, cutting corners or whatever, expect someone coming the other way to be doing the same (or worse). Honestly don't care if someone in another car is quicker along a road than I am, as long as I'm not being held up by them I'm not overly bothered

That was my reason for trading in an S6 Avant for the scoob, the scoob was going to be better fuel economy... best I ever got in the Audi (4.2 V8) was about 30mpg, but I had to drive it so slowly/lightfooted to get that... generally it was 20mpg or less on the normal daily drive... added to which I got 250-odd miles out of a tank that cost £60+ to fill (84 litre tank )

Yup, congrats I'm sure theres a few of us who can help out if you need it from time to time. Iain.

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