54_WRX

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Morning peeps,

Recently purchased myself a 54 plate standard WRX. I was having concerns after a week of buying about the rear struts (sounded fine on test drive and first few days) so i took it to the Subaru/ Fiat garage in Chippenham wilts for a health check. They gave it the once over and confirmed the struts are knocking but went on to list a few other problems. The turbo is noisey, drive shaft oil seal is leaking and one of the brake sensors is faulty. Needless to say im p~*sed with that. Any suggestions on places/ people to give me a second opinion? Ive been a Honda man for the last 10yrs and new to the turbo/ torque scene

Any help greatfully received.

bulldogtwy

http://subaru.co.uk/dealer-locator/
try that link mate find all dealers in your area.

54_WRX

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I used that to locate the one in Chippenham . Anybody know the turbo version thats in my car, going to start looking at my options with regard to refurbing or replacing with one from a breakers as they are just shy of 2k from main stealers.

pinkypurkhardt

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tdo4 is your turbo mate get them fairly cheap mate on here or ebay you could even upgrade for alot lot less than 2k

pinkypurkhardt

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have a look at theese mate
http://www.andyforrestperformance.co.uk/16307.html
dont really wanna be going much over 300bhp on a wrx though wothout gearbox drive upgrades ect

54_WRX

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Nice one mate

So, can i just go for a more powerful turbo without the need to remap?

If i just go for the AFP4H can i just bolt on and go from there?

Loving the help guys, much appreciated.

Camoscooby

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Welcome to SN mate

53

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Presumably it was a private sale ?

54_WRX

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Hi

It was a trader, ive got a warranty but its not worth the paper its written on! It covers "failures" as opposed to "failing". Oh well, these things happen, just got to save some cash and start sorting it out.

53

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Very calm of you

Facelifted WRX's MY05+ got the inverted strutts and suffer the same issues as all STi's with knocking strutts. Turbos are pretty cheap, especially if you exchange for a hybrid Andy Forrest Jobby for c.300bhp. Oil seals are pretty cheap, just the labour normally

54_WRX

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Im at a point where short of going round there and getting myself in trouble i might aswell just get on with it.

Ive looked into the Buddy club coilover route and will probably go for those when funds are in place. My main concern is the turbo at the minute, from what i can gather if that fails then generally its game over for the engine? So can i use that AFP4H without any other mods?

pinkypurkhardt

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no you need a remap mate your looking at £350 for an open source remap or £650 for the likes of ecutek

pinkypurkhardt

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and you get the best out of it if you went for panel filter and turbo back exhaust with sports cat or full decat and walbro fuel pump

bigsinky

this just boils my ****. i would take it back an demand my money back. or at least get them to repair the problems. they sold you the car knowing the faults, just hoping they wouldn't surface for a few months. name and shame the scamming *****.

The Trooper 1815

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30 days rule and all that. Threaten Trading Standard then go small claims. It won't cost much but don't roll over and take one up the arris mate.

54_WRX

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cheers for the advice so far guys

I will see where i stand legally, in the mean time i will keep doing more investigation into improving the car from what is a lovely motor to drive. i came from an EK9 and ATR which were sold to buy the WRX so completely different ball game from what im used to!