williamw1987

Hey guys,

I'm looking at getting a blobeye WRX in the near future (as soon as my current car sells), however, I was wondering if there are any differences in the model between 2003/2004/2005 please? Any facelifts etc?

I'd more than likely be looking at 03/04 models and the only difference I can see is painted skirts. I could be wrong however.

Cheers guys!

Matt

pjo

Don't know much about changes between years mate but having just brought a 54 reg a few weeks ago, would just say be careful! There's a hell of a lot of nearly dead thrashed s**t out there!

pjo

Went up & down the country & met some aggressive seller's before finding mine lol!

Jay Cartay

iTrader: (3)

They did fit different gearboxes to WRX Blobs after 04. I found this out the hard way when having one swapped.

The Trooper 1815

iTrader: (31)

No real diffences big differences trim, dash but any changes like any other stuff can be added later from the parts shelf, colour coding skirts etc were a dealer/factory option.

An example was the PPP, unless it's got a certificate and is on the Subaru register it's been added later.

JDM cars came with more good bit's as standard and higher BHP out of the box.

Trix-wrx

There are some bad ones out there but I was lucky to get mine off somebody I knew and who was decent enough to have the crank sorted when it started knocking shortly before selling it to me at 88000 miles. And kept the price as agreed. Could of been a bad buy for me if I'd raised the money a month earlier.

Uncle Creepy

In 2005, the Blobeye received a minor interior facelift. On the later models, the dash/centre console has a different layout, and the switch packs on the front doors are also different; the switch packs on the later cars are bigger.

If these work, the first link is the original interior, for 2003 and 2004 models, and the second is the facelift interior, for 2005 (and there are actually a few 2006) models.

https://www.scoobynet.com/subaru-par...cked-dash.html

https://www.scoobynet.com/general-te...dash-part.html

south_scoob

I thought it was 2003 the impreza got slightly stronger 5 speed (1mm wider gears)

williamw1987

Thanks very much guys, that's good to know there isn't a great deal of difference other than the dash facelift... Just got to find a stock (or near enough) blue WRX and I'm sorted!