fadi

Hello all,

I'm looking into buying a used 2003 WRX.
I need advice on the things i should look for, areas of trouble, or any advice.
one car i saw has an exhaust and a turbo timer with 51k miles on it what are the things that are know to go out around this mileage. It's a US spec car.

i am reading about the 1st and Reverse gear synchro/other problems, are they fixed in the 2003 model or are they still there? coz i'm not really into buying a car that is known to have a defect in the trany. are there any other known problems similar to this one? (like the deceleration noise in 3rd/4th gear)

Thank you all

Jakes02

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'02 and '03 trannies are the same. I have 82k miles on my '02 with no trans. problems. The only problem I've had with the car was the clock broke a while back. The trans. is a known weakness in the WRX. Some people have had problems with the '04 and newer trans. also

fadi

i read somewhere that the 2003 had the RA biger 1st adn 2nd gears or something like that

xhengmanx

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yea my 04 wrx has tranny problems.. at 52k miles.. its hard really hard for it to go into 1st n reverse gears.. like i have to really force it in sometimes.. but at times it goes in smoothly.. weird iono what to do with it any solutions anyone?

Jakes02

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Not that I'm aware of. The 2004 and newer have wider teeth than the '02/'03

Jakes02

iTrader: (1)

1. new synchros
2. RA gears
3. STI tranny

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