Picked up the WRX today, Kwikfit said the brakes were perfectly OK - a
slight swirling on the front discs but should have plenty life left -
confirmed with a Subaru main dealer, virtually unheard of to replace the
discs on a 3 year old car with only 19.5k on the clock, but better safe than
sorry anyway.



Drove the car from Carlisle to Newcastle + a little blast around locally (85
miles) and my first impressions are:-



Fuel comsumption isn't as bad as I thought it would be, filled the tank with
Shell V Power when I picked it up and it's only slightly below the first
notch on the gauge.



Car is perfectly civilised when driven normally, clutch a bit heavy in town
traffic.



Fucking hell - once you hit about 4.5k the fucking turbo boost is
impressive, very impressive indeed!!



At the moment, having just got this car, I'm thinking - For normal road use,
do you actually need any more power? (I'll probably eat these words in 6
months time)



Anyway, let the Missus have a spin when I got it home and after she'd
stalled it twice and had a five minute run round the block she says "it's
not as fast as I thought it would be"



Fucking women.

"Me" <no.0ne (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote

Enjoy it. The fuel will stay on full for the first 150ks then start to drop
rapidly. The last 1/4 goes in no time. Must be the shape of the tank. Mine
is quick but after driving the STI I want one.

Fraser

"Me" <no.0ne (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote in
news:SX3ch.303211$PE1.176498 (AT) fe04 (DOT) news.easynews.com:

Heh, has she wound the revs up enough, or is she like mine, changing up far
too early. :-)

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Tunku

"end user" v. A command regrettably not implemented in most systems.

"Tunku" <stuartggray-nospam (AT) dsl (DOT) pipex.com> wrote

Well she is used to driving a Nissan Micra 1.0e, that could be the
problem...

"Me" <no.0ne (AT) nowhere (DOT) com> wrote in news:HSich.321867$PE1.305365
@fe04.news.easynews.com:

Werl, you know what to do, passenger her, let her get into third on a
suitable road and tell her to floor it and leave the gear stick alone
till you tell her.

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Tunku

"end user" v. A command regrettably not implemented in most systems.

"Tunku" <stuartggray-nospam (AT) dsl (DOT) pipex.com> wrote


Perhaps. On the other hand, maintain the illusion..?

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The DervMan
www.dervman.com

"DervMan" <thedervman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

Yes, very tempted to do that - I dont think she's actually changed gear
above 2k rpm, as for actually putting the pedal to the floor....

Yes, I'll go with that, definately the safer option!!

"Lordy.UK" <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote

I fail to see the difference :-)

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Dan
Formerly DanTXD

"Lordy.UK" <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote

Come to think of it, managing to get 20K from a set of WRX front discs
either means some mpg-watching freak like me has used the car (so it'll be
all seized up like) or they're lying and these brakes have been on for just
a little bit.

For some people it's too tempting, though.



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The DervMan
www.dervman.com

"Lordy.UK" <spam (AT) recycle (DOT) bin> wrote

A (51) Vectra SRi 150, so as you see quite a difference in power.
The Vectra was OK, but at the end of the day was still a Vectra..

On a whim fancied something a little more exciting to drive!