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Back to top. Get a Local Price Ready to see a Subaru in person? The age of the units these days means that head gaskets are often past their best, but replacement can often reveal other problems related to the age of the castings, like stripped studs and cracked heads. Elsewhere, leaky cam covers can also cause a burning smell. In a nutshell, try to stick to standard cars or ones with mildly uprated engines to a sensible spec from a reputable firm known in the Subaru scene.

Modified cars again are a different story, with big horsepower engines entirely stripping second and third gears. Later cars use a four-piston caliper but again they can seize when one piston — usually the lower one — seizes. Again, very few of these cars are still on their original suspension, most having been replaced with performance kit over the years.

The age of the cars does mean that worn original bushes will tend to take the edge off the handling but poly replacements are easily sourced to sharpen things up again.

This is the easy part. Unusually for a car of this era, parts supply for the Impreza is pretty good — thanks partly to their popularity worldwide. There are loads of used parts around and Subaru itself can still supply many parts too. What can be tricky to source is the import-specific details like graphics sets and specific trim parts.

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