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Old 13 January 2010, 03:37 PM
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Default High Miler New Shape STi (whats it worth?)

I've seen a high mileage (75k) 08 STi hatch for what seems a very good price, it's a dark met grey with black leather, near mint apart from stone chips on the front, must be all m/way miles I'd imagine to have done that mileage in 2 years or so. 1 owner company car, full history etc. So....

Whats it worth?

Buy it if it's cheap enough/mileage is too high don't touch it?

Any pointers?


Thanks in advance for any comments/opinions.
Old 13 January 2010, 04:11 PM
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if its got fsh and the mileage is warrented it shouldnt be a problem imo ... hpi it take it for a test drive and if the price is right jump on it id say !! :-)
Old 13 January 2010, 04:32 PM
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how much is it advertised for?
Old 13 January 2010, 05:03 PM
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Isn't the Subaru UK warranty supplied by IM 60,000 miles or three years, which ever comes first?

Although the first 60K is warranted anything else not covered outside the Dealer Warranty supplied by IM would not be covered unless a "Proven" Warranty was then purchased or supplied by the dealer?

The US get 5 years and 100,000 miles.
Old 13 January 2010, 05:53 PM
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Whats your average annual mileage?

Reason i ask is if you do any where near the current average (circa 12k) and you and you plan on doin this in the Hatch, then your gonna rack the miles up and depreciate the price or even make it extremely hard to sell (even in a year or two)

If your planning on doing minimal miles (2-3k a year) in a few years the miles will start to catch up with its age and you'll find the depreciation wont be as bad (it will still depreciate though), and will take some time to get to this stage.

Personally id leave alone, especially after what Blue Dragoon has said and the odd horror story going about. Id rather spend more on a lower miler still under warrenty.

HTH
Old 13 January 2010, 06:38 PM
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I don't do many miles a year, and don't keep them long anyway, so adding miles isn't an issue. It has 7 stamps in the service book and has been properly maintained, yes the warranty is done as it's over 60k, it comes with 3 months warranty from the dealer though. Is it worth £14k?
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Oh forgot to say, I test drove it earlier, and tbh I wasn't impressed, didn't feel as quick as my (modified) WRX, to say they're meant to be 300bhp I'd guess somethings not right, anything that needs sorted would be sorted before I bu yit though, any thoughts on why it felt slow?
Old 13 January 2010, 07:12 PM
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Was it in Sport # mode as the SI drive setting makes a huge difference?

£14k is a good price though. An early 08, decent miles, would be at around the £18k mark.

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Yeah I've just read about the SI drive on another site, I wondered what that **** was for It was probably set to slow mode, need another test drive now...
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It will default to S mode but mine also remembers it was in I mode (economy, not very responsive mode).

When you start the car turn it to the right and a green "S#" will appear on the dash.

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14k is over priced i think 12k in all honesty sounds right you will struggle to sell such a new car with that sort of mileage.
Old 13 January 2010, 09:26 PM
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If it's the hatch I'd give it a miss

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Old 13 January 2010, 09:56 PM
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2008/08 Subaru Impreza STi 2.5 WRX STI 5d Valuation - Parker's

Around £16300 at 10k
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I did look on Parkers but you can't allways go by what they say, more often than not they're way off the mark, average price for a 10k miles one seems to be £18k+ I've searched everywhere and only seen 2 at less than that, one at £17k and one at £17.5k, and one of those is a cat d.
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