Ride: 1996 Subaru Impreza RX
Location: Burpengary, Queensland
Mod: Not alot at the moment, Pod Filter, Audio System.
Plans: See below
Occupation: Student employed as Cashier.
Year of birth: 1995, turning 17 in July.
Interest: Cars (obviously) and anything to do with them. Other interests are computers, games, etc.
Previous Rides: None. Family has owned Subaru's in the past, Liberty B4 etc.
I've known of this forum for a while now, years probably but I may as well introduce myself and browse more often. Some of you may know me from gtplanet.net.
Below is a quote of my car thread from the forum.
One and a half years at work, 5.5k savings later and I finally have a car! I bought it off a family friend on Wednesday night. I have driven a few times since but haven't had any time to properly look at it until today.
Being a student I probably wont update this thread all this much due a small income but I may as well have it for whenever I do anything to the car, big or small.
It's a 1996 Subaru Impreza RX.
216000km's
5 Speed Manual
2.0L ej20
AWD
So it's a sensible yet fun first car. With not too much power its relatively economical when compared to something like Australia's commodore and not too dangerous for a young driver. It doesn't have any of the newer safety features like airbags, abs or tc but I guess that's an incentive to drive more sensibly.
One of the biggest pluses to it is that it's clean. The body is incredibly straight with only a few chips along the front bumper. This is surprising as the guy lives in a small countryish town where dirt roads are not uncommon. The car has recently had the timing belts done (200k) and has just been serviced and roadworthied.
Not only is it mechanically clean and physically clean but its mostly mod free. The car hasn't been raped in all directions by cheap plastic parts like some Impreza's we may have seen.
The only mods/ whatever you want to call it on it that I know of are:
- Twin exhaust tip on the standard exhaust system.
- 4 aftermarket speakers + sub and headunit (not really a mod I guess).
- 4 15" ROH rims
- Genuine STI Foglight Covers
- Pod Air Filter
The list of things to do (probably will update as I go):
- Replace all window tint. All the tint is old and the rear windscreen tint is so bad that the glue seems to have surfaced or something to the point where the whole window is just a blur (picture below). The rest of the tint is fine from that perspective but is also old and scratched up.
- Tidy wiring around the car (boot, under seat)
List of things to buy and hopefully buy:
- Seat covers, the seats are in good condition and I want to keep it that way.
- Possibly new floor mats, current ones look pretty aged.
- Genuine GC8 STI Tailights? I think it would look good, not sure about everyone else.
- Eventually I want some 17" Black Advan RS wheels.
All I need now is my P license so I can drive by myself :p.
Apologies for the photo quality, I haven't gotten into a photo taking mood yet and these are with the phone.
Exterior:
Interior:
Other:
Thats the bad tint, you can easily see the blur. Thats during the day, night time is 1000 times worse.
Thanks if you read all of this, comments and opinions are welcome.
