Hello everyone, I am really hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've had my 01 WRX for about 3 years now, still love it but still haven't managed to find anyone local to do servicing and repairs in the Leeds area. About a year ago I came across Scoobybits in Rotherham which wasn't too far away and did a really great job. Unfortunately they've moved to Cornwall the lucky devils. In December I needed to get the cambelt changed at 95k and in desperation took it to Robert Bowetts in Leeds (£334 for cambelt and oil change) but didn't realise till I got there that they weren't a main dealer anymore.
As it really needed doing and it was 2 days before Xmas I let them do it. This week I took the car down to London which was it's first major run out since the belt change and about 100 miles down the M1 the CEL started to flash about 4 times and then went out, it happened again about another 10 miles later and then a few miles after that came on permanently. The car seemed to be performing normally although I wasn't pushing it.
A mate I have down there had a code reader and it said it was a cylinder 1 misfire so we reset it and I set off back to Leeds. All seemed well until about 100 miles up the M1 and this time I got the flashing CEL and it came straight on, still seemed to be going fine.

Sorry to go on but I thought I'd give the full story.
So in summary please help if you can :-

1 - give me some tips of a good mechanic/specialist anywhere around Leeds
2 - Is Cylinder 1 misfire and biggy and I shouldn't drive the car apart from to repair
3 - Could it be linked to cambelt change

Thanks very much
Steve

 

RE Motorsport in Elvington (Nr York).
Ask for Rick and he'll talk to you about it, he knows Scoobs
01904607774

 

As Above....

Only about 25 mins up A64....

 

Aye.. for this type of issue, Rick is your man.

 

Try Craig down in Hunslet, posts as MRC on here !

If he can't help, then another vote for Rick @ RE Motorsport from me !

HTH

dunx

P.S. Skywalker = immune to speeding tickets ?

 

 

Rick @ RE Motorsport....

 

Thanks everyone

 

He used to work at Bowetts, that where I met him !

dunx

 

thats where you met him?think you might want to put that a little differently dunx,people could take that the wrong way.

 

Erm !

yes, as in the past tense of meet ?

Or is this one of your quaint West Yorkshire words I'm unfamiliar with ?

LOL

How's your car ?

dunx

 

Sheffield Subaru Service

5 mins from were scoobybits used to be.

I take my scoob there.

 

haha hows my car?well lets just say if i hadnt have stepped foot through the door of pennine subaru and gone somewere else for my engine build then things would probably be ok.i got my engine rebuilt,picked it up 2 days before xmas,turbo went on way home,was ok when it went in though,i took turbo off,chy lent me one till mine got repaired,did 500miles with this on only takin her to 3500rpm.soon as i upped the revs to 4500 rpm that turbo went.my thoughts was oil starvation to turbo so cars bin off road for nearly 2 months now barring the 3 days i had running in.should have got my turbo back this week and took it back in for sorting out but low and behold he,s gone away for 2 week so the cars just stuck in the garage gathering dust and i'm not a happy bunny at all.i have just lost all interest in it to be honest ive bin back and forwards to pennine subaru so many times now and every time i come away from the place theres something else wrong with it.might be back on some runs out with you lot in 2020.

 

That's really awful, I hope he can get his head round it soon, you deserve better...

Good Luck !

dunx

 

thanks,i think a bit of good look is what i need.

 

I was down near Chesterfield the other day and popped into Scooby Clinic. They initially thought it was something to do with the neutral switch/sensor as they had this before but it wasn't. They ended up thinking it was coked up so put it on the dyno rolling road and gave it a good blow out. BHP went up by 10 to 230 which I'm pretty chuffed about as it's opnly a standard WRX with sports exhaust and it was at 237BHP 5 years ago. They told me to give it a good blow out once a week to clear out the cobwebs so fingers crossed that's cracked it.
Thanks for your help everyone, will definitely use RE next time I need a service.

 

Mine could do with a good blow out too

 

Mine gets a good blow out every time I get it out, and the car does twice a week.

Am I ok saying that?

 

is that like the blowout you did in the ship car park anybody smell a burning clutch

 

Bez !

No not on a public forum....

dunx

P.S. The Beastie gets a mild kicking every time.... up to 4500 rpm