glensti

Hi.

I'm going to view 2003 blobeye tonight. It's up for 5900. Covered 95000 miles.

The owner is telling me it has a straight through 2 and half inch scorpion system on it and says even though there's no cat that there's no engine management light on. Also says that it's had abs disconnected as this is what a lot of people do as there peeping there car for big power. Over 400bhp.

Should this be ringing alarm
Bells

Wild Thing

To many issues with car for mot gonna be a headache

howellsy42

Put the advert up

ShayneJ

Run away

glensti

Its on eBay of anyone wants a look. Cars in Troon. It on Irish plate hig1271

LouisB

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Management light won't come on if it's been remapped I would of thought?

Hawkeye D

Didn't this one come up on SN the other day?

overboostUK

Forget it! £6k for an 03 with 100k?! What power is it supposed to be running?

Problems would make me find another...

glensti

How do u mean mate

glensti

Says its been remapped and tuning 310 bhp

glensti

Runing

Donnie Brasco 46

iTrader: (2)

Seems quite pricey to me. I got a 2005 blobeye wrx ppp with 37k, one owner and full history for £5k. Maybe I just got lucky....

JDM_333

Overpriced, you can get a lot of car for 5k right now, especially Scoobies - I'd leave it and shop around.

blackvenom

I have seen it on gumtree, it's got service history tho it's had £3000 spent in the last few months, it's got some chavy front lights too

glensti

The only history is wat the current owner has had done. Nothing before hand. Says previous owner wife threw it away

Tony Harrington

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Walk 'away' not 'to'. I would not view a car at night unless its garaged with adequate lighting

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Me neither. Walk away, or don't go.

zippy!

iTrader: (1)

Way overpriced that's boardering on sti money blob Wrx,s can be had for as little as 3k on 04 54 plates with less mileage

glensti

It is an sti

glensti

Thanks lads. Going to keep looking for an 05 plate one now if I can in crystal grey

Infected by sti

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I've got a 03 plate Sti for sale, nice car good motor and well maintained for that money if interested

glensti

I'd be pxing my BMW mate or I'd gladly have had a look

Infected by sti

iTrader: (6)

What you got?

glensti

2006 320d msport

Infected by sti

iTrader: (6)

Not a bad car but not for me, 330d may have done it tho find the 2ltr a little underpowered tbh, got an e36 m3 here an all that's up for sale shortly got too many cars for my needs lol

Here are a couple just incase I could temp you

glensti

Just what I'm
Looking for. If bm goes il be down to grab it

Infected by sti

iTrader: (6)

If u find you are interested bud an want more info give me a pm, its a good car in all fairness, just could not refuse the jdm blob I bought for the money I had it for or would have carried on with it

Jacko4130

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Run my blob over 400 horses and never once wanted to remove my abs system.

glensti

I decided to give it a miss. Now wondering if I missed out on what could have been an ok car

overboostUK

How would it have been an "ok" car? It was over priced, had no history, high mileage (for the money and lack of history), and not much to say it was "amazing spec", and anything with chavvy lights usually has been ragged and abused.

If you'll settle for an "ok" car, then there's plenty out there, but if your spending strong money, I would want the best I could find, and there are plenty of them about for sale.

Reasons you did the right thing:

Engine light on - could be anything from a reset required to a full rebuild around the next corner.
Wife threw the history away - couldn't they think of a better made up story?!
ABS disconnected - This in itself is bad, there are numerous high power cars, with much more power than that car would ever have, still running ABS and probably glad they have it!
Price - It was strong money for a "not strong" car that could potentially need another few grand spending on it, making it a very overpriced car that you'd never recoup any money from in the future.

...you did the right thing, dont second guess yourself and trick your mind into thinking it could have been good.