Potential good deal on '05 STI
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Potential good deal on '05 STI
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/2140342474.html
Just a heads up if anybody's in the market. I in no way am affiliated with this, I just happened to check it out while I was looking for my own STI and thought I'd pass it along.
51k miles with some nice baseline mods done (like the FMIC cleanly installed). He's selling for $16k since the car overheats.
I talked to the kid last week, he's the original owner and took good care of the car, and his story seemed to check out in my book. Sadly doesn't seem to know much about cars mechanically, doesn't have time/money to figure his car out.
Provided the overheating never caused any motor damage, the issue is probably something stupid, so it could be a killer deal.
Just a heads up if anybody's in the market. I in no way am affiliated with this, I just happened to check it out while I was looking for my own STI and thought I'd pass it along.
51k miles with some nice baseline mods done (like the FMIC cleanly installed). He's selling for $16k since the car overheats.
I talked to the kid last week, he's the original owner and took good care of the car, and his story seemed to check out in my book. Sadly doesn't seem to know much about cars mechanically, doesn't have time/money to figure his car out.
Provided the overheating never caused any motor damage, the issue is probably something stupid, so it could be a killer deal.
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http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/2140342474.html
Just a heads up if anybody's in the market. I in no way am affiliated with this, I just happened to check it out while I was looking for my own STI and thought I'd pass it along.
51k miles with some nice baseline mods done (like the FMIC cleanly installed). He's selling for $16k since the car overheats.
I talked to the kid last week, he's the original owner and took good care of the car, and his story seemed to check out in my book. Sadly doesn't seem to know much about cars mechanically, doesn't have time/money to figure his car out.
Provided the overheating never caused any motor damage, the issue is probably something stupid, so it could be a killer deal.
Just a heads up if anybody's in the market. I in no way am affiliated with this, I just happened to check it out while I was looking for my own STI and thought I'd pass it along.
51k miles with some nice baseline mods done (like the FMIC cleanly installed). He's selling for $16k since the car overheats.
I talked to the kid last week, he's the original owner and took good care of the car, and his story seemed to check out in my book. Sadly doesn't seem to know much about cars mechanically, doesn't have time/money to figure his car out.
Provided the overheating never caused any motor damage, the issue is probably something stupid, so it could be a killer deal.
Buuuuut....
50K+ miles with a short ram + FMIC and untuned??
I dont have to be a detective to guess that the overheating is probably not anything minor.
And he says he swapped the interior for a full 06 WRX interior, but those are not 06 WRX seats
Anyone here know his screen name here?
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Who tricked him into doing the timing belt at half the mileage it should be done at???
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Also Ive seen it where the tensioner wasnt re-installed properly which meant the t-belt didnt put enough tension on the water pump pulley,
that one took us a while to diagnose
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lol 16k for a likely abused sti that overheats. My buddy couldnt even sell his that had a working engine w/dom3 and other mods for that price.
Not too familiar with what happens when you install a timing belt wrong on subarus because I never have but shouldnt it pop a cel and misfire codes immediately if that were the case?
Not too familiar with what happens when you install a timing belt wrong on subarus because I never have but shouldnt it pop a cel and misfire codes immediately if that were the case?
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Last edited by crfsti; Apr 24, 2011 at 07:33 PM.
but that's not really an issue.. i'm really really curious if it were that tbelt causing the overheating though