2007 Subaru Forester Sti

Chris tii

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lennyd said:
Any news?
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Sat on the ferry now!
Yesterday was a long but great day. A nice distraction from the news.
My Dad and I landed into Bristol at around 9am. Bus onto Bristol train station. Train to Newton Abbot.
Darren picked us up in their tuned Civic Type R and took us to Torque GT.
There was the Forester sat at the front door waiting for us. What a thing!
Darren showed us round the car and went through how everything works etc. And then gave us a tour of the workshop and went through some of the amazing cars they have. Favourite of mine was the GTR Nur in Jade Green. Easily worth £150k.
Then we did all the paper work and we where on our way until we hit the carriageway. I put the foot down and as soon as it 4000 rpm it misfired badly.
Quickly turned round and headed back. We phoned Darren to give him a heads up. When we got back, all was calm. Head mechanic was there waiting. He took the keys and went for a drive. Darren explained that this was best place in the country for this to happen. Plenty of other Foresters in the yard to pinch parts from and they have hundreds of new parts in stock.
5 minutes later he was back, swapped the MAF sensor for a new one and all was good!
Back on the road and headed to Brecon, Wales.
About a month ago I transported our BMW 2002tii over to JFI Classics who is a BMW e10 specialist. There was a bunch of issues with the car since it’s restoration and I wanted to get it driving 100% so James at JFI is the man for this. James made sure it was all sorted in time for the Forester collection.
So I jumped in the BMW, Dad in the Forester and we drove into the Snowdonia mountains to Dolgellau for the night. I led in the BMW which was fun in the rain and darkness. 50 year old headlights aren’t great for mountain passes.
We got dinner, went a for village pub crawl and spent the night in a nice Inn.
Today I was in the Subaru. We left early for the 2pm Holyhead ferry. We went via Caernarfon, had a walk around the shops and the castle. The Forester is a monster. First Impressions are good. Bags of character, old school turbo boost, boxer burble. Yet not much body roll which is great, I was worried it would be more SUV, but it definitely should be classed as a fast estate. It handles surprisingly well. Everything I wanted.
I’ve tried to load pictures but this WiFi on the ferry is pants. I’ll load them later when I get home.
 

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Chris tii said:
Sat on the ferry now!
Yesterday was a long but great day. A nice distraction from the news.
My Dad and I landed into Bristol at around 9am. Bus onto Bristol train station. Train to Newton Abbot.
Darren picked us up in their tuned Civic Type R and took us to Torque GT.
There was the Forester sat at the front door waiting for us. What a thing!
Darren showed us round the car and went through how everything works etc. And then gave us a tour of the workshop and went through some of the amazing cars they have. Favourite of mine was the GTR Nur in Jade Green. Easily worth £150k.
Then we did all the paper work and we where on our way until we hit the carriageway. I put the foot down and as soon as it 4000 rpm it misfired badly.
Quickly turned round and headed back. We phoned Darren to give him a heads up. When we got back, all was calm. Head mechanic was there waiting. He took the keys and went for a drive. Darren explained that this was best place in the country for this to happen. Plenty of other Foresters in the yard to pinch parts from and they have hundreds of new parts in stock.
5 minutes later he was back, swapped the MAF sensor for a new one and all was good!
Back on the road and headed to Brecon, Wales.
About a month ago I transported our BMW 2002tii over to JFI Classics who is a BMW e10 specialist. There was a bunch of issues with the car since it’s restoration and I wanted to get it driving 100% so James at JFI is the man for this. James made sure it was all sorted in time for the Forester collection.
So I jumped in the BMW, Dad in the Forester and we drove into the Snowdonia mountains to Dolgellau for the night. I led in the BMW which was fun in the rain and darkness. 50 year old headlights aren’t great for mountain passes.
We got dinner, went a for village pub crawl and spent the night in a nice Inn.
Today I was in the Subaru. We left early for the 2pm Holyhead ferry. We went via Caernarfon, had a walk around the shops and the castle. The Forester is a monster. First Impressions are good. Bags of character, old school turbo boost, boxer burble. Yet not much body roll which is great, I was worried it would be more SUV, but it definitely should be classed as a fast estate. It handles surprisingly well. Everything I wanted.
I’ve tried to load pictures but this WiFi on the ferry is pants. I’ll load them later when I get home.
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Car looks fantastic, and that definitely sounds like the ideal location for the car to throw a fault. At least you know they didn't take it out ragging the life off it pre collection or they'd have probably found it

Top marks I'm sure for torque GT!

I would consider them to be a tall estate myself, always loved them and there's a blue one local which is class 😁
 

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Chris tii said:
Sat on the ferry now!
Yesterday was a long but great day. A nice distraction from the news.
My Dad and I landed into Bristol at around 9am. Bus onto Bristol train station. Train to Newton Abbot.
Darren picked us up in their tuned Civic Type R and took us to Torque GT.
There was the Forester sat at the front door waiting for us. What a thing!
Darren showed us round the car and went through how everything works etc. And then gave us a tour of the workshop and went through some of the amazing cars they have. Favourite of mine was the GTR Nur in Jade Green. Easily worth £150k.
Then we did all the paper work and we where on our way until we hit the carriageway. I put the foot down and as soon as it 4000 rpm it misfired badly.
Quickly turned round and headed back. We phoned Darren to give him a heads up. When we got back, all was calm. Head mechanic was there waiting. He took the keys and went for a drive. Darren explained that this was best place in the country for this to happen. Plenty of other Foresters in the yard to pinch parts from and they have hundreds of new parts in stock.
5 minutes later he was back, swapped the MAF sensor for a new one and all was good!
Back on the road and headed to Brecon, Wales.
About a month ago I transported our BMW 2002tii over to JFI Classics who is a BMW e10 specialist. There was a bunch of issues with the car since it’s restoration and I wanted to get it driving 100% so James at JFI is the man for this. James made sure it was all sorted in time for the Forester collection.
So I jumped in the BMW, Dad in the Forester and we drove into the Snowdonia mountains to Dolgellau for the night. I led in the BMW which was fun in the rain and darkness. 50 year old headlights aren’t great for mountain passes.
We got dinner, went a for village pub crawl and spent the night in a nice Inn.
Today I was in the Subaru. We left early for the 2pm Holyhead ferry. We went via Caernarfon, had a walk around the shops and the castle. The Forester is a monster. First Impressions are good. Bags of character, old school turbo boost, boxer burble. Yet not much body roll which is great, I was worried it would be more SUV, but it definitely should be classed as a fast estate. It handles surprisingly well. Everything I wanted.
I’ve tried to load pictures but this WiFi on the ferry is pants. I’ll load them later when I get home.
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Epic mini adventure Chris, great that it went well!
 

Chris tii

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quattro Rick said:
Car looks fantastic, and that definitely sounds like the ideal location for the car to throw a fault. At least you know they didn't take it out ragging the life off it pre collection or they'd have probably found it

Top marks I'm sure for torque GT!

I would consider them to be a tall estate myself, always loved them and there's a blue one local which is class 😁
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The car was tuned on a rolling road by them, so really it should of shown up there. I think it was just perfect timing it failed when it did.
Torque GT really do seem to live up their reputation.
 

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Just one of those things, a MAF sensor can fail at any time but at least it happened close to them and they sorted it out straight away. Seen the post on Insta and it looks lovely mate. Health to drive
 

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The cars running rough again. :sob:

At about 3/4 throttle, 4-5k rpm. It misfires violently again. Just like it did when I first got it.
And it also idles high when coming to a stop. So if I’m about to come to a stop and I put the clutch down, the revs idle at 2k rpm for about 1.5 seconds and then go back down to normal.
Any ideas? Obviously I can’t take it to a mechanic anytime soon.
 

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Chris tii said:
Thanks. Is there any common areas to check? I’ll have a look tomorrow to see if there’s any obvious cracks in any pipes etc.
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Had similar on the 328i when I got it, rubber vacuum from airbox to inlet had several splits

Hopefully easy found
 

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Check the plugs, leads and coilpacks (they can crack). Take it handy until it's sorted as it may be det whilst misfiring at 4.5k

Do you have a fault reader?
 

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gpaevo said:
Check the plugs, leads and coilpacks (they can crack). Take it handy until it's sorted as it may be det whilst misfiring at 4.5k

Do you have a fault reader?
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Haven't got a fault reader but I’ll have a good look for anything obvious tomorrow.
I can share Emmas car as neither of our driving much during isolation.
 

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For vacuum leaks you can just check over visible pipe work/connections on the car and check they are all tight/no splits etc

Is it showing a fault code/engine light? Code reader wont be much use if it isn't. Though they are handy to have. Wee Elm bluetooth dongle and torque app can be had for £10er

Or you could try the manual way to read them...I think this will work for yours though if it doesnt just google how to read them without a scanner
 

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Gambit said:
For vacuum leaks you can just check over visible pipe work/connections on the car and check they are all tight/no splits etc

Is it showing a fault code/engine light? Code reader wont be much use if it isn't. Though they are handy to have. Wee Elm bluetooth dongle and torque app can be had for £10er

Or you could try the manual way to read them...I think this will work for yours though if it doesnt just google how to read them without a scanner
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I had a go with this. Wouldn’t work my car unfortunately.
gpaevo said:
I've torque app and a OBD dongle if your stuck Chris.
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That’s good of you, thanks. I might take you up on that. I’ll have another go trying to find the cause tomorrow first.
 
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