Lum

Paid my deposit today, they need to service it, I need to find a good loan, should have it in two weeks, but managed to get the sales rep to take this pic for me.



Anyone know where I can get clear side repeaters from? That's the only thing about the car's design that I dislike.

AJbaseBloke

Nice! Congrats on the purchase.

Hope it serves you well

Markus

Try TSL for clear side repeaters, they should be able to sort you out.

Always liked the RSK's very nice cars

Lum

Loan got approved, money tomorrow, car will be ready monday or tuesday.

God I can't wait. I'm stuck in a diesel VW Bora currently, and it certainly lives up to it's name, sends me to sleep.

Anyone know a cheaper insurer than Churchill BTW, given that I have 9 points until March.

Markus

Have a look in the Insurance section for Rum* (Tom Butler). He might be able to help you out. He, through schofields, always insured my modified WRX Wagon for a very good rate, so he's worth a go.

StickyMicky

very nice

B4 Boy (at work!)

Liverpool & Victoria or Tescos seem to provide the cheapest quotes but make sure that you repeat the fact that it is a B4 RSK!

Get H&S to sort out an exhaust for you...you wont be disapointed!!!

Lum

Liverpool Victoria cant find my car on their system The insurers inly seem to recognise the manual version. Tesco are silly money.

How come the logbook and DVLA say it's a Legacy 4CAM 2.5? is that normal for imports?

Markus

Probably because that is the nearest model they can locate as the RSK was not an offical UK model. It's quite normal, my WRX Wagon had something like Subaru Estate on the Log book and DVLA info.

Lum

Well I am now insured. £2200 it cost me
Picking it up on Thursday as the immobiliser I wanted is out of stock (They were going to fit a Toad Laser Key free of charge, but I paid the £25 extra for the Toad Power Key so that I wont forget to set the thing.
I see there's a trip to Santa Pod going on next weekend, is it worth me going to find out what the car can do, or is a stock Legacy B4 Auto just going to be slow and get laughed at?

AJbaseBloke

It'll be gentle

The autos are quick once going, but from a stand still, take a bit to get going.

Unless of course you go and tweak it If you are going to give it some stick, be prepared for the box to over heat, at which time it will not respond to manual shifts. There is a self protect mode, but many who drive them hard find a tranny oil cooler is a good investment.

Cheers

Lum

Hmm, so you reckon the 6 second 0-62 that Subaru quote is not really acheieveable, even if I do bad things like reving it while left foot braking.

Even so is it still worth me going. If the people are decent I dont care if my car does crap, and it would be nice to have a decent printout to take into work on monday (and also to give it a good workout while within the 3 month warranty period )

My main need though is for overtaking 56mph trucks on SC A roads, so I've bought the right car

Can you point me at some more info about cooling the oil on it, and please remove the horrible image I now have of a hairy bloke in a dress waving a fan over my auto box :P

b4rsktwinturbo

I got a b4 rsk auto,0-60 8 seconds.My insurance is £735 with A Plan.

Lum

Got a URL for A Plan?
Then again, I suppose you dont have 3 speeding tickets like me

b4rsktwinturbo

Me and my wife total of 9 points.What year is your b4,how much you paid for it.

Lum

Found the APlan site and filled in the form, no reply yet.

1999, paid £12500 which at least includes a warranty, new cambelt, cat2 immobiliser fitted FOC, service and MOT (which also got my 80 quids worth of bulbs!)

I need to get a quote before thursday if I'm to cancel the churchill policy.

b4rsktwinturbo

I got my for £10500,MY00(x) and this is last year,with 29k.I do not know what condition is your b4,but over £12000 is sound a lot for MY99.I am selling my at the moment for £9000. How old are you by the way?£2200 for car insurance!If u have tracker,direct line may be the cheapest.

Lum

I'm 25, I have 9 points and a previous loss which unfortunately the sods know about even though I withdrew my claim to protect my no claims. I do have 4 years no claims. Direct Line wanted £2800
It's supposed to have cruise control which was the major reason I paid the extra, and they give it a 3 month warranty. I think it's 99, It's on a V plate anyway, and has lots of extras and service history.

I've not handed over the cash yet, so if you have any concerns and things I should be looking for, please let me know

AJbaseBloke

Look for the usual scoob ailments. It is a grown up Rex after all. There are a bazillion hoses on the TT though, so make sure they are in decent condition and falling off etc.

Hesitation in shifts from the auto can be as small as old fluid, or more serious. If the fluid is new/clean, clunks etc are never a good sign.

Hammering the auto can see it over heat, and it will go into self protect mode at that point, when it won't respond to manual shift inputs.

Being an import, it will be looking for 100RON, so optimax is a must, + Occy booster better, tuned for UK fuel best (EcuTek). I'm a fan of the knocklink to warn of boxer killing det too...

HTH

b4rsktwinturbo

MY00(X) B4 RSK auto for sale, excellent condition,37K,11months MOT,6 months tax,£9000 .

Lum

I've had another look through auto trader as you've given me cold feet now
Average price seems to be 10-11K for a decent one, but none of them have the paddle shift on the steering which I'm rather looking forward to.
There were a couple of others on there that I would consider which were a bit cheaper, but they were both silver. You may think I'm mad, but I really really hate silver cars and the Violet Mica blue one is a lovely colour. Only other one on there in that colour is £12795 and that still doesn't have the paddle shift. Apparently this one has already been remapped as well, in addition to the service, cambelt, mot (which got me a set of new headlights)

I will however go through the list of checks pasted in this thread and pull out if any of them fail.

BTW, the sales rep seemed gobsmacked when finding out the headlights ran at 50V. I assume these are the gas discharge type?

Lum

What are the usual Scoob ailments? I have never owned one before.

b4rsktwinturbo

My got paddle shift and is black.Let me have your email and i send you some pic.Yes, they are HID.I done 6000 miles since i bought it sept last year and i had no trouble at all.The tyres does not last very long,maybe 15k per set.They not cheap to run,25 to a gallon.

Lum

Leather?
Cruise Control?
Billstein(sp?) Suspension?
Why so cheap?

b4rsktwinturbo

No cruise control,1/2 leather seat,the billstein sport suspension is stanard.I bought it privately and pay cash.How do i put a pic up?

Lum

Well, I got the one I was already looking at as I didn't have the time before my current car goes.

I've passed a link to this thread over to an friend who may be interested, however.