I’m working with a local dealership to get in to a 2009 wrx. Apparently the 5 doors are pretty hard to come by locally (at least in my searchings), and they’ve been tracking them down for me.
They recently brought one in on friday. My salesman called me and said that he got one in, but it wouldn’t be ready for me to see until Monday or most likely Tuesday. That’s cool, i’m excited.
I decided to go by the dealership this afternoon to see if it was sitting outside so i could take a peek at it. Fortunately it was.
This is when I noticed the Perrin sticker on the door, perrin license plate holder, and the Cobb sticker on the mirror. Obviously these brands are intended for performance enhancement. That is also a cause for concern, i would think. This means the previous owner likely beat the crap out of it, possibly didn’t even observe the break in period. Also, not that it’s a big deal, but the tail lights are tinted, indicating that it was most likely a younger driver.
I haven’t brought any of this up to the salesman yet. I’d like to see what he meant by “getting it ready” for me to view. If that means removing the stickers and clearing the tails to hide the fact that it was modified, then I’ll bring up what i saw.
I’m concerned that if the ECU was modified and something goes wrong with the engine and Subaru of America asks for an image of the ECU and sees it was modified, they will decline warranty coverage.
IF… IF i decide to continue on with this, what should I be doing here? Should/Can I ask for a lower price? Can I have them verify that the ECU is still covered by subaru of america? Would asking for an extended powertrain warranty be acceptable?
I’d like to have them chop 2k off the price, throw in a set of snows, add a year or 2 full warranty to cover the engine and transmission, etc… but i think they’ll just say no and figure they can sell it to someone unsuspecting.
Oh, and in case they try to play it off that i was looking at the wrong car, i took pictures of the car, stickers, tail lights, vin number, etc. It’s the only white 2009 wrx on the lot, with the tags still on it saying it was from PA (as the salesman told me)… the only wrx at all for that matter.
I guess i’d just like to know what you would do. Haggle, haggle, buy? Or just move on?