I BOUGHT A WRECKED 2017 STI FOR ONLY $7,000! HOW BAD IS IT?! CLEAN TITLE! 

Good deal. I found a 12 impreza with front damage for 3500.00 just finished it and instead of selling it I fell in love with it and decided it’s my daily driver! Never was a fan of Subaru until I started fixing them and realized the simplicity of the engineering. Great cars in my opinion!

The wreck rebuild videos on youtube are always awesome. Film yourself doing the repair work.

That’s crazy man I bought a 2001 JDM STI mint no rust clean title with 160000kms for 7000$ cad it was post to have a blown head gasket turned out it was a bad raditor cap 😂

you keep doing the exact same stuff as me. i rebuilt a 2017 WRX from copart a few years ago. it had a tree fall on it. similar level of damage, but on the top rather than the front. i'll be following this.

NICE! I've always wanted an STI but they hold their value too much plus I needed something bigger. In 2013 I bought a 5spd manual Outback XT that has the EJ25 & a turbo. I also paid $7k but mine was in good running condition. I replaced the brakes & shocks, upgraded anti-sway bars then swapped out the intake/exhaust and got a dyno-tune. It's no STI but I'll take my old Outback over a WRX, of any age, any day.

I have "fallen into deals" before but $7k is a steal! Especially with the mileage on this car. Good find and good luck, my friend.

I went Mishimoto all aluminum radiator for my 2003 wrx.The factory plastic crap fails after so many years.I bought my car new and had 2 radiators fail at the same spot the upper plastic part.So I bought a better radiator.

Can’t wait to follow you through these videos with the STI

The body panels line up really nice. If you do a Koyo radiator, you may need to trim a bit from the upper and lower rad hoses where they mate to the radiator because the Koyo rad is fat enough that the upper hose will be pushed very close to the PS pump pulley and the lower hose may be slightly kinked.

I always wanted to see you cover this Gen and bodystyle. I've been watching your vids since 2016 when I bought my first subaru

That looks like an easy and exciting project!

Can’t wait to see the finished product!

Great video bro, love the VA chassis sti content!!

WOW! Nice deal, I remember when you were picking it up. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Weird air bag deployments. I could show you pictures of a Legacy and Outback with much more front end damage from two hard hits. Both cars totaled and neither had any bag deployments. Fortunately my relatives were able to walk away but Subaru couldn’t explain why there was no deployments in either car.

Excellent purchase! You never know until you peel back all the damage, but you got quite lucky avoiding timing belt and frame rail damage.

Just had the valve body replaced on my 2015 Forester. Good as new!

Congratulations! Always wondered why you dont own an STi. Looking forward to the build.

That's an easy fix! Happy New Year!

Dope man, work slow happy new year 🎉

Enjoyed the vid! Gives me a bit of an inside look of my 2019 STI. Not exactly the same but I'd guess pretty darned close. Hopefully something I'll never need to do but I do enjoy the "inside look"!

Already excited to see the rebuild, I am most interested on changing the old front bumper to the newer one. I just bought a 2016 WRX and I feel very meh about the old front bumper style.

Nice start. Koyo is nice for sure, installed it 2 years ago. Help during warm day and never let us down Happy new year 🚗💥💨🔥

Mr subaru thanks for all the info, i love your channel. What kit do you recommend for head gasket kit for 2011 subaru legacy 2.5? There are too many . Thanks again for all the great videos.

I'm with you. 18 up front bumper cover is a big visual update.

Happy new year, Mr. Subaru! 🎊 🎉❤

Happy New Year Robert, and good luck with this newer STI. 🚬

Robert happy ny homie I love this new project keep the going homie..,!

Happy New Year!

Looking forward to see updates on this

Always go Koyo!!

Awesome !! Im building an 11 STI myself with IAG950 block and all the goodies to go along with it. Hopefully we can cruise one day in our STI"S ! I 'm in Lexington bout an hour and a half rom you .

I have seen the hood latch area pulled down on that kind of hit. You can’t tell until you can’t get the hood to go down enough to ft fender. Caution don’t weld the core support on lower than it should be

Excellent as always ! I was curious about the Koyo radiator upgrade , I would love to hear your reasoning why. I was thinking the same for me. Thanks as always.

Depends on ecomomic repar or not.Timing belt cover pill out.if the horn fits the inside bumper i think the frame is ok..Merry new year😂

Nice score that engine alone is worth most the price you paid!

Hi Robert, nice project car. Will you be having the seatbelts rebuilt or replaced. Thank you for great no nonsense content.

I wana see how you disassembled it 😭😭😭

Definitely go with the 2020/2021 sti wheels. Would look really good!

I’m thinking about buying our first Subaru, either an Outback wilderness or a Forester wilderness,What would be your pick Mr Subaru we live on a dirt road In farm land in Michigan, I was leaning more towards the Forester because it’s doesn’t have a turbo, I’d love to here your Opinion?We currently have a 2021 Chevy Silverado Traill boss.

Should keep the fogs! looks better

Sweet

In the end you will have an sti for maybe 10 or 12 grand less than what it would have cost,with the only drawback being an accident on its record.Thats a pretty significant savings..

Hi Mr. Subaru. Do you know if there's a relatively inexpensive tool that would allow me to program a 2nd 2021 Subaru Crosstrek smart key fob?

Hi Mr subaru 👍🏼 grear work on this wrx sti 2017 is there anyway to contact you about a issue I have on on a 2016 wrx sti ?

I have a 2017 Subaru Forester 2.5l gas. I have 3 problems on my car, including post catalyst fuel trim system being too lean, o2 sensor circuit with low voltage, and catalyst efficiency below threshold. I was wondering if you know the fix to these problems. I appreciate it.

Question! I have a 2014 Subaru Forester 2.5L Premium with the CVT transmission (134k miles), when I am park I have a slight vibration, it gets worse in reverse and drive, but in neutral it completely goes away and the car idles fine. The car also vibrates while accelerating. When accelerating or even just tapping the throttle when driving at 60+mph the car will vibrate and then goes back to normal... its also cruising at 2,000rpms which I have no idea if that is concerning or not. I bought it used no warranty and at 128k miles, one owner, clean carfax and have only owned it for 7 months... I have already had to replace the ball joint, lower control arm, and it eats oil like crazy (about a quart every 650-800 miles). My family has a 2012 Honda Odyssey, with 184k miles on it and it has never had this many problems! Our 2017 Camry and 2015 Altima haven't had really any problems either (but these two are lower mileage then my Subaru). The motor mounts and transmission mounts look fine, I'm just worried its going to be something stupid expensive. Please help me!

QUESTION. I had my 2018 Crosstrek in for the d service in late October and told them to also fix my drivers side day time running light. Charged me $45 for the bud replacement but I noted 2 days later my headlight switch was moved from auto to full time running lights. I switched it back to auto and noticed hey my DRL is still not working. I thought I will tell them but did not get on top of it let it slide until I took it in today. The mechanic looks at it and come back and tells the advisor the bulb is good and it must be something Else and they say it will be $150 plus tax to diagnose. I have a extended warranty and he said it might be covered. After they fix it Subaru said not covered because they did not change any parts. They said this word for word on the bill. DRL has power but no ground to 2 pin connector. Disconnected main headlight connector and verified ground supply going to headlight. Then checked resistance of the ground wire going from the bulkhead headlamp connector to the pin at the DRL. Resistance was within spec and was able to hold a load. Re-connected bulkhead connector to headlamp and light worked. There was a bad connection at the male female terminals at the bulkhead connector tightened both sides and applied enhancer to the connectors. So it sounds like the connector came lose because the first guy who changed the bulb did not connect the male to the female connector and the second guy plugged it back in and applied caulking so it doesn’t come lose again

Im looking to front swap my 15 ipreza hatchback with wrx front end

Will the computer have to be reset since the bags went off? Thanks for the show.

I’m in the minority and prefer the 15-17 front end. Well at least in lighter colors like the white or silver. Any other color I do prefer the facelift

Very cool. Are you gonna keep it?

I’d like to ask, the lower part with number ending 0009P, does it need to be welded to the upper part or simply bolted to it? By the look of it I recon it needs to be welded. Just curious. Thank you

I wonder if the side impact went off due to the driver freaking out and the car got sideways at speed while hitting the brakes.

Id go with an upgraded radiator

The drivetrain alone is worth it

Fix the little soo-bar-oooo so we can say wow

The newer models facelifts look better anyways haha

Are you planning on selling the car?

If you’re thinking about selling it let me know.

There is no 15-20 WRX or STi that does not have the front end wiped out 😂

FIRst

Daddy?

Please buy a GC/GM 🫡