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What coil pack do you have, as I brought one for the last car and it was the wrong type. I can take a pic of it tonight if you want. Yours for $20 plus postage if its correct. It was purchased brand new off Trademe for about $70

Ive changed my mind. Raised carbon fibre

Over on Nasioc there are many threads about guys putting in an accessport in and refreshing with off the shelf tunes. It can be refreshed with different stages depending on mods. But it seems that its not the great if you don't have the right parts for the tune or use really crappy gas. Many people have been known to throw a stage whatever reflash and break the car then take out the accessport, take off the aftermarket partsT and then take back to dealer for a new engine. They also run a lower octane (I think Theither highest is about our 95) and also there are different qualities of fuel, some places are known for the bad fuel they sell. Also not sure if it was a design or manufacturering issue but the US cars are made in the US not Japan.

So the poll at the moment stands at 100% agree with the flat carbon fibre centres. TBH its a bit hard t tell what would look best when they are not on the rims. Can you get photos of what they look like on the rim?

My guess is the rod bent then the top of the piston caught the edge of the bore and broke. Or the other way round

That is indeed the cat light. The only thing I can think of with the car not starting and the light coming on at the same time is that the cat is blocked. This is only a guess, but could explain why it might not start. Have you tried reading the code? it might have a specific code for the specific issue with the cat

I can see you have a problem The first step is admitting you have a problem, the second is making sure you take away anything that will remind you of your problem. So on your behalf I will greatly accept your gift of these wheels - only to help you out of course, just let me know when I can pick them up.

You ask the average car driver when was the last time they properly serviced their car. I remember a meeting at one of my work places about the work car, and I found out no one ever thought to check the oil/water or even tyre pressure. I had to tell the Practice manager his nice expensive Lexus needed new tyres as they were nearly bald, he had no idea! I've noticed on the American forums they tend to buy their cars a lot newer and stick to the factory servicing to make sure they get the warranty.

Haha, yeah the WRX might be a bit low for those puddles, also there could be huge pot holes hidden under there. Next time you want to go puddle driving let me know (there used to be a small section of road that always flooded in South Brighton years ago, we nick named it puddle lane)

Took the outback driving through some nice puddles yesterday on the way home from work. Had one that splashed right up and hit the roof! Was lots of fun. (all done safely, no children or animals were hurt during filming) The road next to the river floods when its really high tide in some spots due to the earthquakes. Had the strangest experience yesterday as well, driving down New Brighton road and looking out the side window and seeing a kayakers head at the same level as mine!

I think they are around $800- 1200 depending on where you take it and if they do the water pump and the tensioner at the same time. If you need any questions asked for Trademe sales before you get an account running let me know an I can ask on your behalf. Also when you get to Christchurch let us know and we do a meet and greet

I posted the question about the replacement engine. They were saying it was a big end bearing went. They have the receipts of the replacement engine. Looks to be a nice looking car for the price, but you would need to do the timing belt etc in the near future (depending how many ks you put on it) Belt has done about 60,000km. @tigerstyle are you in NZ yet? which part of the country are you going to be? Also I remember you saying you were here for a year or two? if so then something like this might be good, cheap if you can get it for what its at now, and if only here for a year then wouldn't worry about timing belt and you should recoup some of you costs if you sell it when you leave.

Went to put a cheeky bid in, but now well over my $2.50 limit

I will give the washing powder, warm water and scourer tonight when I get home. Im not to worried about damaging any clear coat on it as I will give a respray once done anyway. My dad gave me a couple of bottles of heavy duty graffiti cleaner, so I tried a little bit on one of the rims with a steel wire brush, seemed to amke a good difference but not as clean as I was hoping

Nice link to the page I think the issue with this engine was it was never able to be truly developed. Id be happy that engine

Got myself 4 new tyres for the outback, and now its sitting awaiting a warrant inspection . Good thing theirs a VTNZ right across the road from work!

Such a classic article!

I like the rims Ive seen an Impeza in Christchurch with that hideous front grill and bumper. At least the rest didn't look like this!

Im looking to try clean up the inside of my rims from the RS RA and wanted to know the best way to get rid of all the crud and brake dust thats built up over the years on the inside of the rim. I have tried brake clean and scrubbing and heavy duty degreaser and scrubbing, which removes some but still leaves more than I want. I was thinking about using a wire wheel on the inside faces to clean the up but unsure if this is wize. Any help would be good. Will post a pic up of the condition of them when I get home

Mine doesn't 😂 When using it as a daily I spend about twice as much as the outback in a week. It's toonly hard to drive economically as it sounds so good. I do love the RS but the BP wagon is just more refined for daily use.

Go the turbo. Im so glad I got one. My first Turbo car was at the age of 39! I so wish I had done it sooner. I would say that in traffic especially stop/start would be cheaper in the turbo by a little. Plus you get more chance to tune it later once you get used to the stock power.

If you are starting the game up again you just need to post 1 pic of a location with your car. The next person will take a pic at that location then take a pic at their new location and post both up at the same time. Refer to this for some recent ones

Sounds like a good plan. Thats what we did. It had been so long I decided to start fresh again.

The idea is some one takes a photo of their car at a certain spot, the next person takes a photo of their car at that spot and names it, then posts a new photo of a new location to find. The last one looks to be somewhere in Upper Hutt. If you can find this spot take a photo and join in.

Yeah I know where this one is. Might have to pop by this week😊