Rob42

There I was, driving the car steadily (honest ) when I noticed the temperature was higher than normal, carried on plodding for a few hundred yards, and the next thing I know, there's steam pouring from the drivers side front corner of the bonnet I pulled over, popped the bonnet and was greeted with tons of steam, and coolant everywhere.
I was lucky enough to have a mate 20 minutes away with a tow rope, and one quick tow later, found the plastic side bottle had a dirty great crack in it.
After several phone calls, I found that Suburu wanted £260 for a rad on exchange, all the way down to Motex in Chelmsford who wanted £90 plus the dreaded.
The item arrived within a couple of hours, and fortunately the scoob does nt seem to be as hard to work on as I feared.
Within an hour and a bit, the old rad was out, and stripped down, and the new one was in.
So far so good, the car seems ok, and most importantly is nt showing any side effects. Thanks god for that!!

spally

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fingers crossed no other damage has been done.

M535I

samehappened to old wrx piece of **** to change arnt they , mine did get an air lock that took me an hour to get out though lol .

Tiny

Nicely sorted mate


Hope it's all good now

wiley

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at least its all sorted, hope this is not a standard on scoobys

wiley

53

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^ OEM Classic rads are pretty common for splitting the plastic ends tanks.

I have an ally one after mine went.

scoobybrad

I did have to, thanks to stu (supplying) and zak (fitting)

53

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I would have had your new coilpacks, shame you didn't have access to your car

scoobybrad

Lol yea gutted bout them to only bloody 2 weeks old

millzy555

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Rads are easy to fit just don't buy a 52mm ally rad with front mount cooler pipes!!!!! Turned into a nightmare lol