New member - thinking about buying a Subaru
 

Hello all,

Been looking for a while now, very tempted on buying a Subaru or Evo.

Just have a couple of questions if thats OK.

Firstly lots of Scoobys I'm viewing are stating "Engine rebuilt", before looking at buying one I thought the engines were bullet proof.

Why would engines need rebuilding before hiting even 80k? Is this abuse from owner who hasn't serviced the car at all?

I'm looking for a WRX STI around 56 plate ish, is there any common faults I need to lookout for?


Thanks for your help

This thread explains alot.

https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...-failures.html

Ah the good old 2.5 thortans engine, i'd be lookng for one with a rebuild, thread will explain more.

Subaru 2.0 engines are genreally bullet proof although like any car depends how its been treated, if its been thrashed most of its life with poor serving and genraly not looked after then you can't expect much at all.

While the engines are tough (especially the 2.0 sti, I believe the JDM is the toughest of all) a lot of the cars to get a hard life, even if they are well treated in terms of servicing. The other issue is that they are so easy to tune that it's fairly easy to compromise the life of the engine. And the other consideration is that the last of the new ages are approaching 10 years old now.
But treated relatively well, and without crazy power then the engines and drive trains are very, very tough.
Stuff to look out for.
Leaking rocker covers. Knocking suspension (shocks). Binding 4 pot brakes on wrx.
Need a really thick folder of service history from a decent garage. If any work has been done then you need to see receipts.
But they are great cars, and there are a lot of obsessive owners who treat them fantastically well. There are also a few owners who don't...

The majority of fubar'd 2.5 that have had a rebuild by Subaru are normally FSH without mods. And there is no time scale or mileage specific time for them to go.

I wish you all the best as you may be one of the lucky ones :thumb:

I've read a couple of ones have been lucky so is hoping I'm one of them aswell...wanna get her remapped but not sure whether I wanna take the risk too be honest mate

I think post 2009 or 2010 there was a map update that helped eliminate some of the failures on the 2.5 engine.
All the same be careful of mapping a 10 year old car with standard internals. Make sure you take it to a reputable subaru specialist mapper. Be prepared to travel.

Sadly, even the new models are popping.

Are they really ? Wow...I wouldn't jump at the first one that comes along! I wanna do some real research into the company before i handed over my money

Butty, have a read of the last few pages of the linked thread, not good reading.

They reckon the engine lights come on on the new new ones...not good but love the look of it

When you say new models, does that include the brand new WRX STi?

Sadly,if you mean the new saloons with the 2.5 then yes.

Wow! You would of thought Subaru might of cleared that problem by know

Oh dear.....

You bought a car from that clown at Rotherham Scoobies, I wouldn't trust to him fill a washer bottle....Did you actually state he mapped it?

Have a search of the forum to find out more about this workman ship, you will literally laugh your bollox off, well maybe you won't but you may cry.

I may "lern summit"? From that clown? Ok fella :lol1:

Enjoy your car... TTFN.:thumb:

Pi$$off, you're on a windup! :lol1:

:facepalm: Well that took a turn for the worse fairly quickly. :lol1:

Worryingly, I find myself agreeing with you quite a lot lately! :D

Shouldn't your username be matt pmsl?

For the love of Tony ( God
Wake up man , the guy shouldn't be let loose with a washing machine let alone something with moving parts

Pmsl

It's tubbs or Matt on a wind up me thinks

Definitely a wind up!

I'm not on book face

Ha ha / you crack me up guy