Wr1 design faults

[wr1jimmyhudson]

Can anyone tell me what common faults the wr1 has and what parts are prone to going as I have heard the rear struts are prone is there any other parts and how can u tell

[Autotecnica]

rear struts as you say and the turbo up pipe heat shield normally falls to pieces.

[WR 1mposter]

A few early on had a bearing go the the air con or alternator iirc !

other than the struts problem mainly trouble free motoring .

[The Swede]

A few early on had a bearing go the the air con or alternator iirc !

other than the struts problem mainly trouble free motoring .

... unless you modify it at WRC-tech


On a serious note, what I found a 'design fault' on the STi (also suffered by the WR1):
- Rear struts (already mentionned)
- Standard tracker tends to empty batteries
- Rear seats have cheap cloth inlays instead of alcantara like at the front
- Too understeered when standard
- Fading brakes (standard ones)
- Rear legroom is really small compared to direct competitor making the car not suitable for skiing trips with 4 people
- Bottle for intercooler spray sits in the booth (so freezes in winter)(it would be better to put the bottle of the windscreenwasher there as that always contains anti-freeze)
- 'Manual only' intercoolerspray is useless
- No Xenon lights available in Europe
- Standard ECU was never tested in Scandinavia for sure
- Design of the front allows too much water to end up on the brake-discs when it rains which causes serious fade when braking at the end of every long straight

[jd]

... unless you modify it at WRC-tech

[The Swede]

... unless you modify it at WRC-tech

I'll replace Joooeeyyyy in his absence:

Fcuk off you bl**dy French tw@t !

[WR 1mposter]

... unless you modify it at WRC-tech

I'll replace Joooeeyyyy in his absence:

Fcuk off you bl**dy French tw@t !

Fookin quality Sweede could'nt have put it better myself .......


But just dont metion the latest tuners who were let loose on our car, they must not have had any spanners seeing as all spark plugs were undone with fingers, and the gearbox had only 4 out of 9 bolts whilst the turbo to down pipe had had nuts missing and the same with the downpipe to the exhaust....and the list goes on and on
At least WRC Tech had spanners to tighten nuts and then give them to you free off charge

[jd]

... unless you modify it at WRC-tech

I'll replace Joooeeyyyy in his absence:

Fcuk off you bl**dy French tw@t !

NO!

[The Swede]

Fookin quality Sweede could'nt have put it better myself .......


But just dont metion the latest tuners who were let loose on our car, they must not have had any spanners seeing as all spark plugs were undone with fingers, and the gearbox had only 4 out of 9 bolts whilst the turbo to down pipe had had nuts missing and the same with the downpipe to the exhaust....and the list goes on and on
At least WRC Tech had spanners to tighten nuts and then give them to you free off charge

Shoot ! Bro would argue they were family of myself !

[Gee Wr1]

Name & shame them Martin so nobody else uses them

[The Swede]

True.

One more 'design fault', although I cannot confirm this was only on mine or on all of them: at high speed the bonnet would give the impression it was going to fly open any time (result of the 'scoop' ?) and the rear wing was vibrating very loudly.

[Bonovox]

True.

One more 'design fault', although I cannot confirm this was only on mine or on all of them: at high speed the bonnet would give the impression it was going to fly open any time (result of the 'scoop' ?) and the rear wing was vibrating very loudly.

Mine did! The other week coming back from the MOT station, doing about 70 (or so ) I noticed the scoop seemed to rise slightly and the edge of the bonnet wasn't in line with the wing. Had to get into the nearest lay by asap and shut the bonnet. (thank god for the safety catch!)
I have a dodgy bonnet catch so whether the MOT station opened it to have a look and never shut it properly I'm not sure?
I am aware of it at all times now so I notice any slight movement.

[The Swede]

I can't remember if it did it as such low speeds, but once over 120, there thing always looked like it was going to end in the windscreen and once over 150 the rear spoiler sounded as if it was going to come off.

[Gee Wr1]

True.

One more 'design fault', although I cannot confirm this was only on mine or on all of them: at high speed the bonnet would give the impression it was going to fly open any time (result of the 'scoop' ?) and the rear wing was vibrating very loudly.

Mine did! The other week coming back from the MOT station, doing about 70 (or so ) I noticed the scoop seemed to rise slightly and the edge of the bonnet wasn't in line with the wing. Had to get into the nearest lay by asap and shut the bonnet. (thank god for the safety catch!)
I have a dodgy bonnet catch so whether the MOT station opened it to have a look and never shut it properly I'm not sure?
I am aware of it at all times now so I notice any slight movement.

My bonnet catch filled with road muck when i opened it it wouldn't shut again so had to use loads of wd40 to free it up again & a wee screwdriver to clean out the gunk.

[The Swede]

My bonnet catch filled with road muck when i opened it it wouldn't shut again so had to use loads of wd40 to free it up again & a wee screwdriver to clean out the spunk.

[Gee Wr1]

Very good editing

Then again as so many people get excited by how nice a wr1 looks they might have been fiddling with themselves will looking at it
A guy in a evo 4 stopped me last week to ask could he take a photo of it because he thought it looked so good You don't get scooby owners stopping evos to take pics of them

[The Swede]

Very good editing

Then again as so many people get excited by how nice a wr1 looks they might have been fiddling with themselves will looking at it
A guy in a evo 4 stopped me last week to ask could he take a photo of it because he thought it looked so good You don't get scooby owners stopping evos to take pics of them

No, which proves that they are narrowminded and don't know anything about cars.

[WR 1mposter]

Name & shame them Martin so nobody else uses them

As it happens there was a few lads there when our car was being done, they have rang me to see how things are going, needless to say they wont be using them