Good move, I just made the hideous mistake of getting an 04 plate WRX with the Prodrive performance pack. car has 63,000 miles on the clock and it's been nothing but a headache. When it's actually working, it's a nice drive, but I've had so many problems with it now that all I can think of every time I get behind the wheel is what's gonna go wrong this trip?
First thing to cause me problems was the Turbo, or, every other trip in the car, lack of it as it would randomly work as and when. Took it to the Subaru dealer to have it fixed and ended up shelling out on a new waste gate, which seemed to solve the problem.
48 miles further down the road, engine warning lights started to randomly show, so back it went, this time for a new set of exhaust gas sensors.
8 miles down the road, the clutch went and back it went to the dealer, this time on an AA tow truck (AA recovery guy said he wouldn't touch a Subaru with a bargepole as he sees so many of them with problems that you just wouldn't expect for their age)
Yesterday the turbo stopped working again (same fault as the first time round) and it's back to the dealer yet again tommoz for repair. So, I have to wonder what will be the next thing to fail....?
So far, in just 2 months, the car has cost me over £2k in repair bills - time for it to go I think. Decided that I was stupid not to get a Supra when I was last looking for a car (it was what I wanted, but didn't happen) So, on the lookout once again