mrs scooby girl

looking for a scooby, i have seen a nice 2002 sti with 30k on it and its for sale at £18k.
it is a standard car and is the prodrive style without the ppp engine mods.
can anybody tell me if this is a good buy and is there anything i should know and look out for with this model, it drives n feels like the dogs proverbs.

Vegescoob

Look at post on here from yamman02R1. Are you 2 looking at same car?

devon03

would look to be same search! If not there is demand for the bugeye lol

mrs scooby girl

yes mate, man & wife looking @ same car, no reply to his post so thought i`d try the women`s touch, thank`s for comment

Vegescoob

I have a 99 UK Classic Turbowagon so not up on Bugeyes. So come on Bugeye peps advice for these 2 lest they think SN not hospitable to newcomers!

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

bugeye seems to be pretty well unloved by most

However I have a Bugeye MY02 WRX (with some mods) and it seems to have been pretty well screwed together and I personally like the look of the Prodrive Style 2002 I paid £895 for for the spoiler to match !!

£18 K ..............Hmmmmm , OK if it had the PPP but a bit pricey. Is it from a dealer we all know ??

Midlife.....

Vegescoob

Thing is for 18K am I not right in thinking you could get a new 04WRX? Standard I know but new 3yrs warranty worth more when you want to change and add PPP bits later or other bits to make it your own.

Nevetas

The sti bug eye, has nicer lights than the WRX, and I think they look sweet!

So do the girlies



YUM YUM!

forest172

I`d let my standard STI 03 blobeye model go for that with 15,000 k on the clock. Also it`s got a few trick bits!!

ShyTot

I have a non prodrive styled STI02 Bugeye with PPP.
When I bought it I had no intention of putting on the PPP, but I found that for my commute in slow traffic, the STI02 is a bit of a pain. My wife hated the car because of the way it delivered its power.
It took me 10 months or so to also come to that conclusion. I think that they must have improved this on the later models, because no-one seems to have as strong an opioion as me now.

Anyway with PPP it is great and I think that the Prodrive styled Bug STI is the best looking so far!

marklemac

Nothing wrong with the bugeye

MichaelH

I've got a bugeye and am quite happy with it! Though you do tend to get the impression that they are less loved that some models IE the other two!

Got mine in June this year, its an 02 STi-UK with PPP and had 36k on the clock, FSH and one owner, paid £18k for it from a main dealer. They reckoned they had mispriced it on the website and it was cheaper than it should have been, but would let me have it at that price. But can you really believe a car dealer when they tell you a story like that?

Mind you, I bought it anyway...

MARK MORRIS

i part xd my 52 plate sti prodrive with ppp in may, it had 11k miles on it, got 19k for it, they had it up for £20995 for a while then reduced it to £19995, it then sold, that sounds pricey for 18k
mark

BrynO

I have a silver bug WRX, now wish i had bought a STi-7 in the same colour - looks fantastic. But at £18k I'd be starting to do the sums on a new EU import STi....

Trashman

Bought my 02 STi prodrive (non PPP) in July for £18K with 28K on the clock and additional year's warranty (20 month full Subaru warranty). If it's dealer with extra warranty, £18K is good, but maybe a bit of room to haggle. As for looks, I definitely prefer the bug (STi) to the classic and the Blob - don't seem to see as many bugeyes around either but loads of STi blobeyes.

gso

when i bought my wrx the dealer had an 03 STi (blobeye) in WR blue with 23K on the clock for £18700.

So the 02 bugeye seems a lil pricey!

MarkWRX

I sold my 02 STi Prodrive (non PPP) about a year ago with 23k on the clock privately for £17500 (dealer only offered £16500) , so either I was shafted or that's expensive

Turbotits

iTrader: (2)

Seems a bit over priced. I bought a 02 sti prodrive no ppp from main dealer a month ago for £16,000

Trashman

Special not pricey

jspec7

I have a silver JDM STI on a 51 plate (bug eye) its been in the UK from new with full s/h. Its done 29k. However when I bought it was damaged at the rear and is a cat d....I saw another thread a couple of days ago, someone was lookin to buy a similar car for around £18k which was a cat d. Mine has morettes and and an aftermarket roof vent, considering selling it to upgrade to a blob eye. I think £18 is top money for a nice one, a cat d should be worth around £15k?

Saj

FX02

iTrader: (5)

I had a 2002 sti 7 with the prodrive boby kit. As far as I know they only produced 750 in the Prodrive style. Mine was kindly written off for me by a white van man last week, thus meaning that there should be no more than 749. So I would say that £18k would put it within a reasonable price bracket. Although you may be able to haggle over the mileage. I have seen them on Auto Trader for around £20k at dealers.

ProdriveSTI

Thats the impression I was under too. IM only brought over 750 prodrive style versions

Im sorry to hear about this, I bet your gutted?

marklemac

Yep, and only 100 of them were black

Andy Porter

jspec7, I think your a liottle out, here are two honest JDM STI 7's for much less.....

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=366854

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...=326488&page=1

jspec7

Fair enough! So I guess mine is probably worth around £12.5 then!! Might as well keep it. When I was looking for a JDM a year ago they seemed to be fetching similar money to UK cars.
I was also under the impression that JDM STi's are around 300bhp, different sites say different things.

Saj

sherlock

iTrader: (1)

Did not realise that. You learn somthing new everyday on here!

yamman 02 R1

we have now managed to sell our pug coupe private so the deal on this sti is now £16.5k with tax, service ,and extended subaru waranty for an extra year. also painting bonnet & front grill area (small stone chips) how does this sound?

FX02

iTrader: (5)

I was gutted, but the insurance company were fantastic during every thing and I got a result in less than a week. I would have preferred not to have lost the car, and had no intention of getting rid of it for a long time. You dont see many of the bugeye Prodrive versions around.

However, I now have an Sti8, and must admit that it is better. No offence to the remaining Sti7 owners. They are both great!!

ProdriveSTI

Only because its newer... right?

Andy Porter

Keep it jspec, the STI7 JDM's I was looking at on Wednesday were lovely, and I must admit the dealer wanted 16K for them ! To be fair if I didn't know about SNET I would of thought that fair, bloody dealers