WRX wagon servicing

[jimblive]

I'm looking at getting the wife an 05 wagon with PPP and had a couple of questions about servicing. I have a classic myself but just wanted to double check a couple of things.

Are the service intervals on newages up to every 10,000 miles and what's the months if the car is low millage, is it every 12 months or 10,000 miles depending which is soonest? ie a 5 year old car with 30k on the clock should have 5 stamps?
Whats the cam belt timings, at 50,000 miles or 5 years?

Anything else I need to be aware of that's different to a classic?

Cheers for any advice.

[Animal]

10k miles/12 months, cambelt at 50k miles or 60 months, IIRC. Lots of owners recommend an intermediate oil change (every 5-6k).

[ScoobieWRX]

What Animal said...and i change oil every 5K miles as it gets driven hard regularly (remapping testbed). Just a bit of peace of mind that no matter what the oil is always good even though Synthetic oils these days will stand up to 15K miles between servicing, depending on how the car is driven of course.

[jimblive]

Thanks for the clarification, just as I thought.

[gavk]

big service at 60k dont forget, all the fluids

[Scooby72]

I drive mine very gently, but do the oil & filter every 7.5k miles.

[footsoldier]

gavk said:

big service at 60k dont forget, all the fluids

Looking at one which is high 50s at the moment - what is cost of the 60k service?

Also, what's the story with gearboxes? Just started looking properly at WRXs and have picked up that's an issue? 5 speed box, PPP

Anything else to think about - are they generally reliable? Will probably only do 4-5k in a year, just want something enjoyable, reliable, that can be used in all weathers.

Cheers

[Syndrome]

footsoldier said:

Anything else to think about - are they generally reliable? Will probably only do 4-5k in a year, just want something enjoyable, reliable, that can be used in all weathers.
Cheers

I've just bought a gb270. Which is like a wrx with a pack on it and some nice extras. It's done about 50 k and was a prodrive owned car. It feels as fresh as a daisy. I spoke to some ppl in the know and they said that the 5 speed box is no worse than the 6 speed (which is very reliable) in their experience as long as you keep the power to below 350 horses.

[Scooby72]

Syndrome said:

footsoldier said:

Anything else to think about - are they generally reliable? Will probably only do 4-5k in a year, just want something enjoyable, reliable, that can be used in all weathers.
Cheers

I've just bought a gb270. Which is like a wrx with a pack on it and some nice extras. It's done about 50 k and was a prodrive owned car. It feels as fresh as a daisy. I spoke to some ppl in the know and they said that the 5 speed box is no worse than the 6 speed (which is very reliable) in their experience as long as you keep the power to below 350 horses.

Yep that's exactly my understanding,there is no issue with the 5 speed boxes, they very reliable under 350 BHP.

[footsoldier]

I was too slow, someone else bought it....