so who bought it ?

davelegacy™ said:
Have to 110% Agree with Tommy here.


Thing is when lads have fresher cars they dont all drive the stones of it. So when you see the precentage has had issues its absolutely huge per ratio of issues and ones out there.
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Dave, how many 2.5s have you had true your place that have have these issues.

I'm just sick of hearing this sh*t from tommy everytime 2.5s are mentioned here,
I don't live in England so I don't give a flying fu*k what goes on on scoobynet either,

But all it's doing is dropping the price of every 2.5 in this country, were we live, I've done a few track days in mine and it has 130000 klms on the car with no issues so far, touch wood.

Just to point out to lads on the site before people think I'm just stirring the sh*t, I'm not, I have had plenty of dealings with dave and no problems and I work with tommy and have to see him everyday, so I'm not looking to fall out with anyone one.

I'm going to ring C&R tomorrow to see what they say on the matter and see would they cover costs/ warranty the car?
 
me and you wont be falling out so no issues there.


re warranty and c&r. I would imagine there will be one with it. and if anything went wrong would need fix. as is a used car and a performance one at that they may have a custom warranty related to a performance car.

re 2.5's have seen ringland failures that caused a 9k mile to need a complete new engine heads and all. that was ken reillys one. lucky enough done under warranty.

a fair few 2.5 na done heads gaskets that had low mileage.

x2 new age wrx + sti both head gasket.

and currently a hatch sti that is burning a little too much oil to be comfortable with alongside coolant usage.

I expect when we strip that to have both ringland issue and head lift combined.

The oem 2.5 is a very very questionable engine reliability wise.

I would have very little confidence for example on a 4000km "ring" trip to bring a 2.5 oem engine Subaru there. trash it. and come home total piece of mind prior to leaving.

whilst a 2.0L sti which done a oil change prior with checks for any hint of bearing particle and getting all clear would have huge piece of mind.

if I was to buy a hatch sti in morning. I would want to buy with engine damage. and have 5k off price.

when built and kept to somewat sensible limits. with correct supporting mods. imo min 14mm headstuds and pinning. they are are sweet motor. would not even consider building one above 350bhp unless going 14mm studs.
 
Even out of warranty surely Subaru would fix this under good grace? If it's a know documented issue, one they have admitted too?(Have they?) I can't see how they could refuse? Porsche where are replacing some Boxster engines for cylinder liner cracks, once they had FPSH...BMW are still repairing the rear floor cracks on M3's (E46) once the car is under 10 years old.
Maybe the 2.5 is not as strong as the 2.0 but this doesn't imply that it is a weak engine does it? There are so many 2.5 running 100k + miles without any issues, surely it must be environmental?
 
Re: Re: so who bought it ?

Dagnut said:
Even out of warranty surely Subaru would fix this under good grace? If it's a know documented issue, one they have admitted too?(Have they?) I can't see how they could refuse? Porsche where are replacing some Boxster engines for cylinder liner cracks, once they had FPSH...BMW are still repairing the rear floor cracks on M3's (E46) once the car is under 10 years old.
Maybe the 2.5 is not as strong as the 2.0 but this doesn't imply that it is a weak engine does it? There are so many 2.5 running 100k + miles without any issues, surely it must be environmental?
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Warranty is up to the local distributor.

so either subaru uk or subaru ireland.

but yes they were refusing warranties all over the place.
 
davelegacy™ said:
Dagnut said:
Even out of warranty surely Subaru would fix this under good grace? If it's a know documented issue, one they have admitted too?(Have they?) I can't see how they could refuse? Porsche where are replacing some Boxster engines for cylinder liner cracks, once they had FPSH...BMW are still repairing the rear floor cracks on M3's (E46) once the car is under 10 years old.
Maybe the 2.5 is not as strong as the 2.0 but this doesn't imply that it is a weak engine does it? There are so many 2.5 running 100k + miles without any issues, surely it must be environmental?
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Warranty is up to the local distributor.

so either subaru uk or subaru ireland.

but yes they were refusing warranties all over the place.
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That's bad form
 
Interesting thread this. I can see both sides of it. My hawk was only 18 months old and 5k on it when i got it.I have 76k more miles on since.luckily so far have not had this problem but whos to say it wont happen. i brought mine to the ring 1800 miles later it was ok.having said that i never trashed it i never done it to any car i had, spirited driving would be what id call it. ive read a good bit of the scoobnet thtead.whats most disappointing is subarus response to all this.have they got anywhere with them on it
 
When Bob rawle was over last with me, we were talking about the race rom, flat shift, launch control anti lag etc etc... And he said on the standard 2.5 sti he would not advise to any of them, as it may only one time of hitting rev limiter and that could be failure...

It's a real pity Bob wouldn't come onto a thread like this and share some of his experiences with 2.5s
 
theres a 08 one on donedeal up north how much would vrt be on it looks to have prodrive calipers
 
joe ic ould be wrong but i think they're the black sti calipers same as the brembo ones only they have sti on them,it's hard to make them out in the pics nice car though
 
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