TheOriginalAquapanther

For a hawkeye? & whats the best way to fit them, rivnuts?

Markyscoob

Best place is a breakers and the way to fit it is as Subaru do. The O.E. Rear window vane is an alloy item, solid as they come and bolts to a pair of side plates. These sit on a stick on gasket and locate in a middle hole with two outer holes made and "rivnut"s fitted. The coloured covers are held on by a screw and clip.

You need to get the whole lot from a breaker, preferably in your colour but it's not essential. New Gaskets are only £7 e.a. from Subaru and once you offer up the unit it's pretty obvious where everything goes and you and a friend can cover the rear corners with masking tape and mark it all up.

The car's skin is three layers of metal at that point, and the holes only go into the outer skin. To bolt a fake one on from inside means cutting through all three layers.

Fake ones look fake, always.

I did the above on my Hawkeye Spec-D to bring it up to regular STi spec. Took a day or so. No real issues.

TheOriginalAquapanther

Cheers mate

LVC

Fitted mine with TigerSeal - hasn't shifted at all and a lot less hassle than drilling holes in the car.