*WARNING ALL LOCAL SCOOBY OWNERS*
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we were woken up at 5am on sunday (7/12/03) by the car alarm of our astra, which is parked bumper to bumper to our scooby .
our neighbours van is very close behind it also.
what the scum had tried to do, was move the astra, to get the scoob away
luckily though, we were all woken up by this and they gave up.
they wouldn't get very far with it anyway, as it needs a new engine and has a flat battery, but that's besides the point
just letting everyone in the area know, so you're aware that there's someone around after a scoob, be careful and make sure your scoob's secure etc...
our neighbours van is very close behind it also.
what the scum had tried to do, was move the astra, to get the scoob away
luckily though, we were all woken up by this and they gave up.
they wouldn't get very far with it anyway, as it needs a new engine and has a flat battery, but that's besides the point
just letting everyone in the area know, so you're aware that there's someone around after a scoob, be careful and make sure your scoob's secure etc...
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hi Kev, the impreza started to judder a while ago,then one morning on the way home from work, it just died on ray and lost all power and was making an awful noise we have a friend who used to work for t***eways as a mechanic.he said it was the tappets (shows what 'gimps' they employ ), we have since had advice from a 'proper' mechanic who said the noise it's making has nothing to do with the tappets and is more likely to be a blown turbo or piston slap as it's common in the MY97 modes 
either way, it looks like it would cost a whole lot more to get the bottom end replaced than it would to get a new engine in it, so that's the option we're going for, that way, if it's a process of elimination and other things start to show a fault, it won't keep bumping up the cost
so , as soon as we can, we're sending it to a specialist who will do a proper job on it, rather than the local dealer, who's likely to charge more than double the ammount we have been quoted !!, oh, they also have decent mechanics too, who know exactly what they're doing 
we've left it a bit late now to get it back in time for xmas, if we manage to send it in the next week, but we've been without it now for about 2 months so a few more weeks won't make much difference, at least we'll be able to go out in it again when we get it back ..lol
we have a friend who used to work for t***eways as a mechanic.he said it was the tappets (shows what 'gimps' they employ ), we have since had advice from a 'proper' mechanic who said the noise it's making has nothing to do with the tappets and is more likely to be a blown turbo or piston slap as it's common in the MY97 modes either way, it looks like it would cost a whole lot more to get the bottom end replaced than it would to get a new engine in it, so that's the option we're going for, that way, if it's a process of elimination and other things start to show a fault, it won't keep bumping up the cost
so , as soon as we can, we're sending it to a specialist who will do a proper job on it, rather than the local dealer, who's likely to charge more than double the ammount we have been quoted !!
, oh, they also have decent mechanics too, who know exactly what they're doing we've left it a bit late now to get it back in time for xmas, if we manage to send it in the next week, but we've been without it now for about 2 months
so a few more weeks won't make much difference, at least we'll be able to go out in it again when we get it back ..lol
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