New member - thinking about buying a Subaru
21 July 2016, 10:35 PM
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New member - thinking about buying a Subaru
Hello all,
Been looking for a while now, very tempted on buying a Subaru or Evo.
Just have a couple of questions if thats OK.
Firstly lots of Scoobys I'm viewing are stating "Engine rebuilt", before looking at buying one I thought the engines were bullet proof.
Why would engines need rebuilding before hiting even 80k? Is this abuse from owner who hasn't serviced the car at all?
I'm looking for a WRX STI around 56 plate ish, is there any common faults I need to lookout for?
Thanks for your help
Been looking for a while now, very tempted on buying a Subaru or Evo.
Just have a couple of questions if thats OK.
Firstly lots of Scoobys I'm viewing are stating "Engine rebuilt", before looking at buying one I thought the engines were bullet proof.
Why would engines need rebuilding before hiting even 80k? Is this abuse from owner who hasn't serviced the car at all?
I'm looking for a WRX STI around 56 plate ish, is there any common faults I need to lookout for?
Thanks for your help
21 July 2016, 11:19 PM
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Hello all,
Been looking for a while now, very tempted on buying a Subaru or Evo.
Just have a couple of questions if thats OK.
Firstly lots of Scoobys I'm viewing are stating "Engine rebuilt", before looking at buying one I thought the engines were bullet proof.
Why would engines need rebuilding before hiting even 80k? Is this abuse from owner who hasn't serviced the car at all?
I'm looking for a WRX STI around 56 plate ish, is there any common faults I need to lookout for?
Thanks for your help
Been looking for a while now, very tempted on buying a Subaru or Evo.
Just have a couple of questions if thats OK.
Firstly lots of Scoobys I'm viewing are stating "Engine rebuilt", before looking at buying one I thought the engines were bullet proof.
Why would engines need rebuilding before hiting even 80k? Is this abuse from owner who hasn't serviced the car at all?
I'm looking for a WRX STI around 56 plate ish, is there any common faults I need to lookout for?
Thanks for your help
https://www.scoobynet.com/scoobynet-...-failures.html
21 July 2016, 11:55 PM
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Ah the good old 2.5 thortans engine, i'd be lookng for one with a rebuild, thread will explain more.
Subaru 2.0 engines are genreally bullet proof although like any car depends how its been treated, if its been thrashed most of its life with poor serving and genraly not looked after then you can't expect much at all.
Subaru 2.0 engines are genreally bullet proof although like any car depends how its been treated, if its been thrashed most of its life with poor serving and genraly not looked after then you can't expect much at all.
22 July 2016, 09:07 AM
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But treated relatively well, and without crazy power then the engines and drive trains are very, very tough.
Stuff to look out for.
Leaking rocker covers. Knocking suspension (shocks). Binding 4 pot brakes on wrx.
Need a really thick folder of service history from a decent garage. If any work has been done then you need to see receipts.
But they are great cars, and there are a lot of obsessive owners who treat them fantastically well. There are also a few owners who don't...
22 July 2016, 09:56 AM
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I've read a couple of ones have been lucky so is hoping I'm one of them aswell...wanna get her remapped but not sure whether I wanna take the risk too be honest mate
22 July 2016, 10:24 AM
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All the same be careful of mapping a 10 year old car with standard internals. Make sure you take it to a reputable subaru specialist mapper. Be prepared to travel.
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22 July 2016, 10:34 AM
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I think post 2009 or 2010 there was a map update that helped eliminate some of the failures on the 2.5 engine.
All the same be careful of mapping a 10 year old car with standard internals. Make sure you take it to a reputable subaru specialist mapper. Be prepared to travel.
All the same be careful of mapping a 10 year old car with standard internals. Make sure you take it to a reputable subaru specialist mapper. Be prepared to travel.
22 July 2016, 05:17 PM
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You bought a car from that clown at Rotherham Scoobies, I wouldn't trust to him fill a washer bottle....Did you actually state he mapped it?
Have a search of the forum to find out more about this workman ship, you will literally laugh your bollox off, well maybe you won't but you may cry.
Have a search of the forum to find out more about this workman ship, you will literally laugh your bollox off, well maybe you won't but you may cry.
Well that took a turn for the worse fairly quickly. 
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