Ok I've done a search but have not found an answer to my question. The struts in my car are stuffed(sticky). I've rang up 3 people for prices. 2 of them gave me a price to replace them with new ones. I spoke to John from wheels world and he told me I could not just swap them but need either the same ones from Subaru or go for coil overs. I like to believe the 1st two as that was the cheaper option but feel that John has had good dealings with the Subaru and will know what he is on about. Can any one please confirm? I don't plan to race or do track days so coil overs are not needed in that regard. I hope to go past John on Monday so he can have a look.

(I hope that is the common name for them)

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"Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to there level and beat you with experience."

Depends on what exactly you mean by stuffed...are they inverted struts? I got mine dismantled, greased & reassembled when they were making noise and had no problems since...otherwise source a second hand set from someone installing coilovers, or buy some DMS (=

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That wasn't a U-turn! It was two consecutive right hand turns.

Or go to Repco and buy some aftermarket new ones to suit your car.

Just pick up a second hand set of struts for a few hunj and change them... pow, solved.

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MY93 Impreza GX 1.8L, 0hp, 0nm

I might have my old struts you can have.. shoot me a pm

aren't the 05 wrx struts inverted like the sti ones? check to see if there's a nut at the bottom
if so you could regrease them:
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