When I took the wheels off for the first time I was a bit disappointing to find a broken wheel stud. There was enough of the stud left to screw the wheel nut on but not really enough to tighten it up properly. After a bit of research I found that this isn’t that uncommon […]
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Forester STI – First Inspection and New Tyres
So now I had a Forester STI but it wasn’t the perfect fresh import I’d planned on bringing home and I could see before buying it there were one or two jobs I’d want to do right away. Plus whatever I might find after a close inspection with it up on the lift. Tyres were […]
Forester STI – Recovering the Import Nightmare by Finding My Car
So you’d think by the time we’d come to an agreement and decided not to buy the car we’d have had enough of Foresters or anything to do with cars for that matter! But the story doesn’t end there…. Read the first half of this story here. …..We could have just cancelled our second night […]
Forester STI – My Japanese Import Story and How a Well Known Importer Let Me Down
This is a bit of a long story in which I was really let down by a very well known Japanese car importer, putting me in a situation I’m still not particularly impressed with. But I’m not telling it to vent my annoyance or stitch anyone up it’s just a record of what happened and […]