salsa-king

Well, the time has come to get a bit bigger car to run the kids about with bikes etc.

Been looking at Renault Grand Scenic (7seater) and Foresters (non turbo)

Pricing*around the £2k price mark.. but most have 100k+ miles on... some with service history and most with non.*



Then while in Ibiza last week I spotted a 2002 SF on AutoTrader ... it had little info other than in Silver with 39k miles!!!!!! yes THIRTY NINE THOUSAND!!!

Got home on Thursday afternoon and come Friday afternoon I'd been over to Lincoln to have a look at it.



It was mint... interior looked like no one had sat in it, need my detailing on the paint work and engine bay.. only bad bit is the diamond polished alloys are starting to get the crows feet lines under the*lacquer. (I may look at refurb to smarten them up).

Told the wife I wanted to put a deposit on it... and lets say all of Friday wasn't made easy for me... we had a few words over it

But I did manager to ring and put a deposit down.. still with the wife fuming.. and said I'd be over Sunday to show her what it was like.

So, been over today.. she was*coming round to the idea of the forester, but still annoyed with me

Having now seen it she likes it and thinks its a peachy buy



One owner from new .. full service stamps.. most main dealer, but the local main dealer closes so after that it was all at another garage.



I'm chuffed, a few things to sort out but looking to pick up at the weekend











I'm quite excited about it, it drove lovely.. nothing like the 330s of course lol*

It has not squeaks or rattles, AC is cold and inside is immaculate, found out it's last service was at 39k in March this year.. winner.*

DoZZa

iTrader: (4)

I had a 2002 S-Turbo, excellent car. Much better choice than the other offerings in that price bracket.

Enjoy

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iTrader: (41)

Very nice I think you made an excellent choice

My SF5 arrives this month 50k miles

salsa-king

^^ mine has those 'easy' chair seat cloth lol

I need a spoiler!!!

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iTrader: (41)

I don't think much of the traffic on forester.org. There's not a huge amount of help and it's not that easy to navigate what you're looking for, but the SF5 thread is nice to get ideas from.

http://www.subaruforester.org/vbulle...-thread-11047/

salsa-king

what does SF5 mean?


and where can I get some nice car matts that fit properly for my car.. plus a boot liner?

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iTrader: (41)

SF5 is the equivalent code to GC8 GDB etc

poffer1

I find the best way to search forester.org is to use google. Hits what you are looking for better.

"search words" site:subaruforester.org

for example:

intercooler site:subaruforester.org will bring up google results for intercooler on the forester.org site.

Lovely Forester by the way....those SF5s are reputed to be everlasting....

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iTrader: (41)

Cheers for that I'll give it a whirl yes I'll be keeping mine for many years for sure. Perfect family car and still a drivers car.

salsa-king

found out yesterday from the garage that has serviced the car the last 6yrs it wanted for nothing...and the car had had it's cam belt and water pump changed in May 2014.. t was serviced in the Feb 2014 and they told the owner the cam belt needed doing... so in the May.. 30miles later it was replaced