I’m no great expert on brakes (can you tell?) But - I can see the potential benefit of holes in the discs aiding cooling. Beyond that, and unless you’re into super-speeds and heavy, prolonged braking, I don’t see the benefit from grooved discs???

Put a bit of grease on the discs, that’ll stop it… NO DON’T !!! I’m with your ‘glazed disc’ explanation. Don’t you have a couple of spares in your stash that you switch briefly, to rule in/out?

I think removal and cleaning of injectors would be a reasonable (and cost effective) stage one to try and address the problem, even if it requires buying a cheap sonic cleaner. If that didn’t work, I’d go to stage two and buy a known ‘good’ injector from someone (here) and replace each with it...

Wow. A freezer in the Impreza? That’s some optional extra there!

I spent all day yesterday ignoring this thread

Can you bend that low to get in…?

Check your camshaft position sensor - if this is faulty it will cause starting issues. (It won’t necessarily give an engine fault code.)

Ok chaps, update on @ChuggyFreelander ’s car… Main issues for MOT are excessive smoking and handbrake. My advice was to sort the smoking first, if dealt with, then replace the rear brakes. Seems to be an injector issue going on as the balancing range is between -5.4 through to 6.2, which seems...

@ChuggyFreelander Off-topic, but as promised; PB blaster is my first go-to for releasing rusty nuts and bolts. Soaking time is your friend here. Owatrol Polytrol is brilliant for restoring your black trims on the car.

I feel you - was there a couple of months ago!

Looks like something that will be found parked outside the schools and shops, not working in a muddy field.

Yes, there is a ‘picture’ elsewhere on here… From what I’ve seen, it’s nothing like a Freelander, and is undeserving of the badge.

Did you back-probe the fuel rail sensor to test it?

Looks tidy 👍

You could narrow it down a bit… What colour paints, and in what order?

Dog walked. Coffee made. Thread ignored for the morning. 👍

Nope - not yet

Ok - maybe one will be ordered by a new member soon 😉

A lot of the 'go-to' stuff has been done by the OP already, including PCV and MAP, but we'll get some checks and read-outs and report findings. The intake manifold and EGR has been cleaned also - @Arctic2 do you still have any cleaned + gutted EGR units available? The injector balancing figures...

Wait - what? Where?!? I can multi-task and ignore 2 at the same time if needed...