Newbie here
 

Hi my names Rory and i am a caraholic.

I am looking to buy a scooby pref an import for around the £3K mark, i missed one that looked perfect but seemed to perfect for the price. anyway would like to know what to look out for good or bad.

take it easy and hope to be and need to be a scooby driver for bank holiday monday

All the best fella In your hunt for the scoob!

Hiya mate!

Just 2 weeks ago that was me talking.. From what I've learnt so far, checkout the different models, prices, Insurance etc.. know the car your buying. Go and view some and you will get to know what you really want. Like I was told from the guys on here DO NOT buy the first thing you see because it may go BANG. Dont buy one thats been modded already, get a low mileage one with a clean looked after engine and be prepaired to spend £500 replacing service parts like cambelt, tentioner, air & oil filter and dont forget the fuel filter! It's worth getting a dyno run and diagnostic test for £100 so you have a baseline for any future mods, and dont do what i've done and spend 2k on mods in the first week and wonder why your having problems fault finding :)

Ensure gearbox is sound, from what i've read they are the weak link in scoobys. Hope this helps.

Heres mine :)

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/loquef.../ph//my_photos

Thanks for the advice, your car is bear nicege. Any ideas if it is safer to go uk than import

You'll pay more for a UK spec, Alot more, but you'll get the help from Subaru UK. (Which I wont.) Insurance will be alot cheaper tho.. worth considering.

Jap Spec Imports have more BHP as standard 240BHP whereas the UK Spec have 208BHP. Thats the WRX non STi. The STi Import is around 260-280 I think.

Hi mate I managed to get myself a 94 wrx jap import with 60000miles, a turbo back exhaust and sound system for 3K back in Jan. I did the timing belt, tensioner, gear oil, diff oil, engine oil etc and got it undersealed when I got it and have had no probs at all with it. It runs like a dream. UK turbos are only 208 bhp. 93-94 jap wrx = 240bhp, 93-94 jap wrx sti = 260bhp. 1995 onwards wrx= 260bhp, 1995 onwards wrx sti= 280bhp. Hope this is of some help mate and good luck in the hunt!