dear all

 

I am completely new here. I have just bought a 1993 Impreza. living in Holland by the way (close to Amsterdam)

 

I have some questions:

- Is there any good book or CD about the Impreza for technical work on it?

Like Haynes or an official Subaru technical book or CD-rom?

 

- Secondly, my car drove 150.000km (about 90.000 miles) and is bit bumpsy. I would think to replace the shock absorbers in the front. Would that be normal looking to the miles and age of the car?

 

- third: the car has central door lock but without remote controll. Yesterday I helped a friend building in an aftermarket remote on his central doors system (Volkswagen passat). was not difficult. Adding an additional relay which can be switched remotely and that was all. I wonder if this is also possible on the Subaru, and how to do (which wires to use). I searched in this forum and found a post about an older legacy and saying you can not do that because of the non electric switch on the door. Is that also true for the impreza?

Welcome,

 

The factory manuals are the best. Your local subaru dealership may be able to get them, but may not. Ebay sometimes has people selling cd's with manuals on them. I think Haynes or Chiltons also has a book out as well.

 

You can d/l factory manual info from subaru http://techinfo.subaru.com It's going to be mainly for the US cars, but the info should be similar if not the same for yours.

 

Yeah that's about normal mileage for struts to need to be replaced. I'd strongly recommend replacing all four. The reasoning for this is that the new struts will more then likely provide better response/stiffer and can throw off the handling characteristics of the car. I had this happen with my legacy when I had mix-matched struts on. I'd suggest a set of KYB GR2's. They are priced well, and provide excellent performance for their cost.

 

The locking mechanism. I don't know personally, there may be some impreza people that might know. If you can get a hold of wiring diagrams or manuals, that should tell you for sure.

I would advice you to purchase the struts in the US. Prices of OEM struts are 3 to 4 times higher in the Netherlands than in the US.

 

Hal's parts (halcoots@skybest.com) sends them to Europe and gives good deals. Make sure they use surface mail and you will have to pay 20-24% import tax for bringing it in. I have a lot of experience with them. Nice people.

But in your case you have to know which part you want (numbers!) for they only have info on US cars and there are a lot of differences between European (made in Japan)and US cars (made in the US) or modelyears. Tru the dutch Subaru board (subaruclu.nl) They are 99% impreza. They can help you with numbers/manuals.

 

Goodluck

Jaap

The Netherlands

I picked up a Haynes manual from the parts store for my Subaru and I like it. It covers (almost) everything I ever need. Anything else the people here are really good to answer for you--usually quickly too.