Someone is intrested in swapping an Impreza for one of my cars but im not sure what its worth. Its a 99 uk turbo 2000. Mildly tuned and mapped running 280bhp with printout. Its very clean, has 115K miles on the clock and resonable history. To be honest ive always wanted one of these and white is the best colour for the classics IMO

 

2 to 2.5 k

 

seems strange that it has the earlier front end?

 

There's usually a reason for that, make sure the front end is straight, Get the applied model code off him to find out exactly which model it is, might have someone else number plate on it

 

Where is that found?

 

my99 should have facelift front
chris

 

Looks like a 98 model, older front end and 2 pot front brakes.
The interior will really give it away, MY99/00 cars have a nice shiny Mono Boss on the steering wheel, the 98 just has an imprint (and a phase 1.5 engine).
Value, 1.6-2k

Tony

 

 

 

Its an MY98 car.

Tony

 

is it a t reg, cant make it out?
has it got rubber gear gaitor?
cheers chris.

 

whats the first reg number i swear it looks like an X if so lol no deal?

 

just trying to find out now. yea it is a rubber gaiter

 

were they not on pre my99 models?? looks like a mismatch to me
chris.

 

its a T reg

 

hmmm ok, mines an S and is that shape, i think it was actually just before the facelift actually i thought all T's were facelift? as i was told that my car which is S was borderline they changed in september 1998 or something??

 

Its an MY98 car, its not an MY99, it could be a very late registered one but its DEFINATELY NOT an MY99 (these have leather gaiters around the gear sticks anyway).

Tony

 

just looked on ebay and out of 15 1999 cars all were facelift and all were T reg... erm...

 

Hmmm. Dont know if I should go for it or not

 

S 1 August 1998 – 28 February 1999
T 1 March 1999 – 31 August 1999

My MY99 STI v5 type R is an S reg.

Tony

 

mines a late s reg my99 and its facelift so for me that cars not right!
chris.

 

DOH! sorry!

 

people do change bumpers and interior parts as its easy, doesnt make it crashed,dodgy etc.

 

just looked mines a reg feb 99 so that should be facelift!
chris

 

But its still an MY98 car, its not an MY99 which is what we are trying to point out

Tony

 

perhaps they ran out of bumpers and grills when they built that one so just looked in the parts bin an put it together lol nah just check its okay under the bonnet alignment etc etc should be ok, do a hpi etc..

 

anything to look out for when viewing?

 

i do agree , however most dont change to make their car look older
but they will change plates to make look newer and if people dont know what they are looking for they get stung!
cheers chris ..

 

It all depends, if subaru didnt sell all their old stock of cars off, then there could be previous model year cars still available, they normally drop the prices on these (as they did with the MY00 cars when the MY01's came in, £15,999) to clear stock.
Dont go by the reg, go by either the model year or better still, the vin code.

Tony

 

ahh i see, i change my estimation to 1700 to 2000 then