Newbie here
 

Hi all,

A good wealth of info you got here in the forums, all much appreciated. Hope when I finally buy one I can contribute.

I am living in Switzerland (although I am from London) looking to buy a Impreza WRX STi over here. I have found one which looks very nice (going for CHF34,950, which is about £15,500). Registered in March 2004, 1 owner, totally standard. Went to view it yesterday and it looked spotlessly clean and had a full service history. It's done 33,000km (approx. 20,000 miles) which I guess is average. Under the bonnet was clean, no oil, nothing dripping etc, although I realise this could be just the garage steam clean job!

I will be taking it for a test drive in the next week or so, what else should I look out for? Any tips would be great, trying to find a modern buying guide is proving tricky.

Also, what are the best tyres to have on it? Over here we have to have a Summer set and a Winter set, it's got winters on it at the moment, which are fine, but I fancy getting some decent summers thrown in.

If you're interested here is a link to the car: (click on the image to see more pics)
http://www.autoscout24.ch/AS24Web/De...&page=2&row=1#

Many thanks,

Ade.

No one got anything to say? :brickwall

No help or advice for a newbie??

welcome m8 :)....there hows that !

Morning Sir'http://i8.tinypic.com/24oafib.jpg

You can get a 2005 model jap spec which is much better then the uk spec.
For the same price

http://www.maclureperformance.co.uk/...erformance.htm

Hello and welcome mate!:thumb:

If you are in Switzerland - please remember to get the car out of NEUTRAL in order to drive it!:D

yeh get a jap spec car if u can:thumb:

Haha, very good! Mind you, the way many of them drive over here you'd think they were all stuck in neutral!

Cheers for the welcomes, it's been a tough week :thumb:

Just a quick question on that - I'm buying the car in Switz, how can I tell if it's a Jap spec?? Are there any distinguishing features..:confused:

Ta.
Ade.

Well for one thing a Jap spec will be right hand drive.

I've heard Impreza's called alot of things, but never a limousine ???

Yeah, funny way of calling things over here!

Since it is left hand drive, it won't be a Jap spec then! Thanks, I hadn't thought about Japan driving on the left like the UK.

Well . . .

. . . .The car will have a lot of Japanese writing in it . . .:thumb: . .But more importantly, don't forget to fit it with a Swiss Army knife - which i believe is a legal requirement for safe motoring ( and is also considered the most advanced weapon of the Swiss Army . . :D)