The daily - Impreza 2.5 WRX Wagon

[seiben]

Now approaching 106k, and I've treated to a new set of Pagid discs and pads.

This winter it got very dirty...



Now back into tow-car/support vehicle mode!



Still enjoying it. Still can't think of anything I'd replace it with. Still on the original clutch...

[seiben]

Ved said:

Forget the original clutch, i'm amazed it's on the original engine. Great work, sir and a great car!

Cheers! I'd like to think not fiddling with it too much will give it a long and prosperous life

[seiben]

Ved said:

That does go a long way towards it. Having seen the issue while getting my Forester serviced at Roger Clark the issue is all down to the pistons being too small for the block so it will fail at some point but if you're up to that mileage you must be doing something right. Keep it up!

I try not to worry too much about the scare stories tbh - back when I had it for sale I had an enquiry from a chap who's 2.5 WRX was on well over 200k and still going. It sounded like he was replacing more because he felt he had to rather than because it was knackered.

OH drives a high-miler Porsche 996 3.6 that's still on its original engine. By rights we should be in a world of boxer-related pain by now

[seiben]

Well, all good things must come to an end. After a bit of a changeover with track cars (the Westfield has gone in place of a co-owned RX8 track car) I no longer needed a tow car. On top of that I'm doing relatively fewer miles with work, and I had the money from the westy burning a hole in my pocket. What else was there to do, but immediately go and buy an ill-advised high-mileage V8?

Selling the Subaru turned out to be the easiest sale of my life, in that it has gone to my best friend and co sprint buddy. I eventually made it to 114k miles with no notable dramas since the last update, aside from some excessive tyre wear being sorted by a four wheel alignment a couple of weeks back. It’s not so much ‘goodbye’ but more ‘au revoir’ – I’ll still see it regularly, and have first dibs if he ever decides to sell.

So, here it is with my new moneypit:

2017-09-18_05-40-46 by Ben Edwards, on Flickr

…and off to its new home!

2017-09-19_03-13-09 by Ben Edwards, on Flickr

I’m hoping it won’t be my last Subaru – the idea is to pick up a cheap old Forester or Legacy estate I can share with my OH as a tip car/winter shed/spare car. More on that in due course…

So there we have it – 60k miles over three years in a Subaru with a chocolate engine. New rear shocks, a new timing belt, a couple of sets of brake pads, one (one!) set of tyres, a couple of bushes, a few thousand miles of towing and all on the original clutch. They’re not bad, these old wagons.