Hey mate,

I'm Alvin, nice to meet you. I've seen some Perth WRX stickers on the roads so I figured it's a good idea to join up.

I currently drive an '09 Mazda 3 but I'm looking to upgrade to a WRX in the next few weeks, exciting times! I'll have to sell the Mazda first though, and I'll have to add some cash on top so I'd have a budget of about $20k... I'm considering the peanut eye WRX as it should be in my price range. It's quite a performance upgrade!

There's some nice examples on carpoint, and there's also a few modded ones for sale in the forums here. The idea of buying a modded rex is quite appealing because I don't know much about cars, it'd be great to buy a beast of a car straight up and just bring it in for regular servicing. I'd like to learn a bit about the car itself too, it all seems really interesting.

Just wondering what precautions I should take when buying a modded car? Anything in particular I have to be careful about?

Cheers, and I hope to meet some of you one day.
Alvin