New Scooby Owner Needs Help!
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Hi There,
Perhaps someone could help - In a weeks time I pick our first Impreza, which is a 2001 WRX Sportwagon, with service history, done 68k miles. It's a uk car and the cam belt was changed at 50k as you'd hope for.
Can anyone give me a few pointers re service schedule going forward? When should I expect to service it next, should I do an oil change and filters as soon as I get it?
Also, our car has the standard factory fit alarm and imobiliser fitted. Does anyone know if this is Thatcham Cat 1?
All help very gratefully received. Can't wait to pick the car up, I really enjoyed the test drive.
Cheers,
Ben
Perhaps someone could help - In a weeks time I pick our first Impreza, which is a 2001 WRX Sportwagon, with service history, done 68k miles. It's a uk car and the cam belt was changed at 50k as you'd hope for.
Can anyone give me a few pointers re service schedule going forward? When should I expect to service it next, should I do an oil change and filters as soon as I get it?
Also, our car has the standard factory fit alarm and imobiliser fitted. Does anyone know if this is Thatcham Cat 1?
All help very gratefully received. Can't wait to pick the car up, I really enjoyed the test drive.
Cheers,
Ben
I have a modified 2002 WRX sportwagon and it's done over 84K miles, and still going strong. Servce every 10K miles, no need to do more frequent oil changes unless you particularly want to, and that would be no bad thing. Next Cambelt change will be 100K miles. between now and then most services will include oil changes, brake fluid change and new sparkplugs.
Not much goes wrong with it if anything, and it's one of the quickest estate type cars you can buy for the money. It's no RS4 but then it only costs a fraction of the price and is probably as quick on a track. You may get a few niggly rattles in the car coming from the dashboard and one or two other places, and driving at over 110/120 leptons and due to the pillarless windows it will hum a song for you, but that's par for the course
Enjoy your purchase.....you'll love it. It's in a league of it's own during wet weather and B Road blasts where never more fun, again in the wet, as it handles almost as well in the wet as it does in the dry, and i recommend Toyo T1R tyres for that.
Welcome to the club
Not much goes wrong with it if anything, and it's one of the quickest estate type cars you can buy for the money. It's no RS4 but then it only costs a fraction of the price and is probably as quick on a track. You may get a few niggly rattles in the car coming from the dashboard and one or two other places, and driving at over 110/120 leptons and due to the pillarless windows it will hum a song for you, but that's par for the course
Enjoy your purchase.....you'll love it. It's in a league of it's own during wet weather and B Road blasts where never more fun, again in the wet, as it handles almost as well in the wet as it does in the dry, and i recommend Toyo T1R tyres for that.
Welcome to the club
AFAIK the factory never fitted any alarms - Subaru UK did that. Mine (MY00 a Sigma M30?) slowly went wrong, so I replaced it with a better one, Laserline 213 IIRC.
Your alarm will have been Thatcham approved, but they get delisted over time - look on the Thatcham website.
http://www.thatcham.org/
Here's a MY00 service schedule I photographed earlier.
Your alarm will have been Thatcham approved, but they get delisted over time - look on the Thatcham website.
http://www.thatcham.org/
Here's a MY00 service schedule I photographed earlier.
Thanks for your Swift responses guys.
I'm sure I'm going to love the Scooby - I've just sold a Lotus Esprit but need something a lot more practical now! The sportwagon is a great compromise for me I must say.
Re: the Trakker - My current insurance company insisted that I have one - I then found Lifesure on the SIDC website who gave me a really good quote without the need to have one fitted, thankfully.
I'm sure I'm going to love the Scooby - I've just sold a Lotus Esprit but need something a lot more practical now! The sportwagon is a great compromise for me I must say.
Re: the Trakker - My current insurance company insisted that I have one - I then found Lifesure on the SIDC website who gave me a really good quote without the need to have one fitted, thankfully.
Edited by Ben Bax on Monday 7th January 15:10
Orangecurry said:
ScoobieWRX said:
P.S. It might be worth fitting a tracker as not many insurance companies will insure a Scooby without it.
eh? I've not needed a tracker in 8 years of ownership, and I'm a car-insurance-company-changing tart. In fact I can't even think who I'm with at the moment.As a result i insure my sportwagon with A-Plan, with two of us, and points on our licences fully comp @ 20K miles per year and full business use for £365 a year. That's not bad!!
If you want details on whats covered in a service have a look at
http://www.greenwoodracing.co.uk/servicing.asp
this show the A-F services and once you have completeded the F I am not to sure which one would be next?? A for 70k, B for 80k, C for 90k, E for 100k Cambelt, D for 110k, F for 60k.
The alarm is CAT 1 and it should have a certificate and also you should have a 4 digit pin number to set features on the alarm via the keypad!
STeve
http://www.greenwoodracing.co.uk/servicing.asp
this show the A-F services and once you have completeded the F I am not to sure which one would be next?? A for 70k, B for 80k, C for 90k, E for 100k Cambelt, D for 110k, F for 60k.
The alarm is CAT 1 and it should have a certificate and also you should have a 4 digit pin number to set features on the alarm via the keypad!
STeve
Orangecurry said:
ScoobieWRX said:
P.S. It might be worth fitting a tracker as not many insurance companies will insure a Scooby without it.
eh? I've not needed a tracker in 8 years of ownership, and I'm a car-insurance-company-changing tart. In fact I can't even think who I'm with at the moment.stevieb said:
If you want details on whats covered in a service have a look at
http://www.greenwoodracing.co.uk/servicing.asp
this show the A-F services and once you have completeded the F I am not to sure which one would be next?? A for 70k, B for 80k, C for 90k, E for 100k Cambelt, D for 110k, F for 60k.
The alarm is CAT 1 and it should have a certificate and also you should have a 4 digit pin number to set features on the alarm via the keypad!
STeve
Thanks for that link Steve - I would assume the same as you and start again with A at 70k miles. http://www.greenwoodracing.co.uk/servicing.asp
this show the A-F services and once you have completeded the F I am not to sure which one would be next?? A for 70k, B for 80k, C for 90k, E for 100k Cambelt, D for 110k, F for 60k.
The alarm is CAT 1 and it should have a certificate and also you should have a 4 digit pin number to set features on the alarm via the keypad!
STeve
RE: The alarm, err, what key pad! don't remember seeing one inside the car on the test drive... But then I was too busy grinning and may have missed it.... :-) Hopefully the certificate and code will be in the service history when I pick the car up on Saturday. Woo Hoo!
stevieb said:
The keypad is located to the right of the ignition wheel. it is located behond a pull down flap..
The key code for this is v. important...
Thanks a lot for this tip off! I'll get onto the dealer tomorrow and make sure it's in with the service history somewhere.The key code for this is v. important...
Thanks again, much appreciated.
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