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Lol @ this whole thread.
My impreza goes away on Thursday, it's four years and 84000 Km's old. When it's cold; down shifting to first is impossible even for about five seconds after being stopped, the drivers seat rattles at about 50 km/h, and the doors rattle with the music despite the rear speakers not being hooked up. When it warm the drivers seat squeaks when going over bumps and the passenger seat squeaks on ondulating roads. At all times; the little plastic pieces over the baby seat connections rattle, it burns oil and can be smelled inside the car, the drivers outside seat rail is rusty as are the quarter panels and the bottom of the spare tire well, the screws in the center arm rest fall out despite lock tight and proper torquing, the drivers side visor stopped staying up at 30000 kms, I've replaced the front pads and rotors twice due to run out and uneven pad wear, a wheel bearing had to be replaced at 3000 kms, and the engine has a knock.
This car was dealer maintained and every service was done early. The 98 neon that I had until I leased this car didn't have any of these types of problems until much later in its life and I BEAT the hell out of that car. As an idea of how much i beat on it, if I launched it between 5 and 6 thousand RPM, depending on track prep and temps, it would do 1.9 second 60 ft times on dot tires.
I love the suspension in the impreza, for it's place it the market it's very easy to control at the edge with just throttle inputs, which is the sole reason I picked it over the competition, but man I can't wait to get rid of it. I just hope my FRS won't be as bad.
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