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Old 30 January 2008, 03:29 PM
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Question STI Jap or UK?

Hi, how can you tell a 55 plate STI is a uk car or Jap import apart from the pink badge saying STI type UK on the back.

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Old 30 January 2008, 04:36 PM
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Quick rack steering is a big givaway
Engines are pretty different, sound is too, jdm twin scroll cars sound like the rally car and dont have the burble.
JDM cars also have a rear wiper and you will normally get all the documentation in japanese (service manual etc) also the speedo will have been converted from kmh to mph, normally by covering the k so it reads mh.

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Not 100% on this but I think that the JDM STi's had electric folding mirrors
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Originally Posted by TonyBurns
Quick rack steering is a big givaway
Engines are pretty different, sound is too, jdm twin scroll cars sound like the rally car and dont have the burble.
The uk spec sti's had a quick rack too
Old 30 January 2008, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Marx Mcrae
The uk spec sti's had a quick rack too
UK spec cars have the fast rack and not the quick rack, 13:1 (quick) 15:1 (fast)

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Old 31 January 2008, 07:40 AM
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Great, many thanks to you all.
Old 19 May 2008, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Marx Mcrae
Not 100% on this but I think that the JDM STi's had electric folding mirrors
That's true........but my UK car also has electric folding mirrors (I fitted them), so not all cars with them are JDM's.
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it will say on the log book it was imported.
Old 20 May 2008, 07:31 AM
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The sound as mentioned above, imports have equal length headers taking away the famous scooby burble.
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