I just lost an essay for you on why you should relax about this. not writing again so points below.
Perspective - get some, this is not a big picture catastrophy, repeat after me 'in the big picture of my life this is insignificant.'
Everyone looses money at some stage, its not such a big deal. Ive lost at least 10 times that much over the years on mad hobbies and schemes.
Your worst case is you blow a few thousand on a good repair or you sell at a loss of a few thousand. This is not worth the anxiety you generating for yourself.
Now chin up and chest out and next moment you have spare, go out lift your bonnet and start learning all the bits.
Pick the bees outa ur radiator n intercooler.
Pick the leaves out of ur leaf catching thingy under ur windscreen.
Get underneath clean up the oil leaks and work out roughly how much is dripping and find out exactly where from.
Tighten any loose clamps even, degrease/clean each component, check uve got spare fuses in the spare fuse spot, etc blah blah.
Educate yourself on what you can see.
You will do yourself a BIG favour by going to any of the aforementioned specialists armed with a basic understanding of your cars mechanical properties in place of your current gloomy outlook. Take it in clean without the sob story also.
Chin up - you bought it, your going to get it fixed and youll love it or your going to sell it and learn a lesson unlikely to be repeated.
Stop berating yourself man it will achieve nothing positive.
Anyway the tasks/tinkering listed are pleasant to do and will make you feel less anxious for sure.

Tl;dr you bought a car and it may need some repairs = not such a big deal. Perspective bro.

Thank you

Seriously, don't be shy and/or embarrassed about disclosing what you paid for it. We are a Cunch of Bunts on here from time to time, but most of us can sense your love and enthusiasm of Subaru so you're unlikely to cop any shit. We mostly dish shit out for bad choices in terms of modifications, bad spelling/grammar and general YOLO behaviour. Knowing what you paid for it will just help with people giving you advice in regards to how much more you should spend on it if there are serious problems, etc. and weigh it up against how long you are likely to keep it for or how long it will likely last.

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Your welcome, i have felt the heavy hand of anxiety more times than i care for, so i know how you feel.
It will pass much quicker when viewed in perspective. Glass half full stuff.
And the physical act of some mechalove will always calm the nerves. Just lying there following the drive line components with a torch pondering the ingenuity of the design or function is a calming positive activity.
Cleaning a previously grubby cap, cover or whatever bit will always give satisfaction.

^Reading this makes me feel sexy time.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

I didnt mean like this Nick

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Well I'm primed and ready for love.

Oh come on! We're trying to help this guy lol ; /
To op - your thread will not likely recover from this point on.

I've been searching the web (Gumtree) for a long time before I made this purchase. So I thought I had a good deal when I saw this as most of the 98-00 rexes (I love this shape to bits) was going for between $4000-$8750. This guy were asking for $7000.00 and I got him down to $5900.00. To be honest with you, I did test drive about 2 rexes before this one. One was a 98 ($4000) and the other a bugeye 2000 ($5000) (which I didn't like so much) but both paint work was horrible and just didn't feel right (Who am I to make the call because, I really don't know a lot (or anything) about cars)

So when this ad comes up and the body work was in a relatively good condition, engine inspection came up with no leaks showing, test drive was good and the seller was just saying there were no issues, etc. I was sold... he seems like a real genuine guy (this is where the heart over head theory comes in).

I know I read in this forum that people's car are in the 10's of thousands and my $5900 is nothing, but I suppose it just hurts to know that MY rex (that I still love; albeit the early morning start issues and throttle lag issues - along with the leak issues) is not going anywhere (it is running, I just don't want to damage it further until a pro looks at it).

(of course there's the part of the $5900.00 that my Mrs absolutely told me that I couldn't spent and only months of cajoling allowed me to get it at the expense of a holiday, and now the prospect of spending another'000s to get it right or to put it up in GT for a loss (I will do the right thing, I will advertise it as a mechanics dream to fix and as is, I won't lie and tell anyone it's in a good condition, especially a dreamer like me who knows nothing about cars don't want to start this cycle again.))

BUT.... yeahnahs, post kind of put it in perspective for me, I think from here on end, I will just do this slowly. I will start cleaning out all the old leaks (things a NOOB like me can do), start her up every morning at least, read up on the rex (I think - because of reading, my throttle lag could be because of a throttle response sensor; amazing I even know what that is (all thanks to yeahnah putting things in perspective last night), and just start cleaning things up that I can think off. This at least when I go to Stechnic, Evo R or wherever they don't laugh at me so much for buying an absolute lemon...

But I appreciate all the kind words everyone and thank you guys for being so welcoming, I do hope that I am strong enough (both $$$ and will) to keep this going.

WOW. Sorry for the story book post.... when the answer was just $5900.00

Unfortunate story that I guess could of been me.

Been looking for months for a MY99 and eventually bought one for $7400. Totally stock which was what I was after.

Still in the back of mind I was always thinking of big mechanical issues with the car so
straight up I forked out $300 to get the vehicle inspected.

Not sure if it's just paranoia but even now I sometimes think that problems could happen with the car.

I guess thats the gamble when buying second hand.

Hopefully everything gets sorted with the car and you can look forward to driving your newly purchased wrx.

Good luck!