2006 Impreza Rust around rear diff. looking to purchase

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Looking at buying this 2006 Impreza but a worried about the rust in the photos below. Especially on the differential since it seems to have flaked off in chunks. Ill go to see it in person the coming week so i can have an actual look. but I would like some advice on wether this seems in poor condition and other things to look out for when inspecting since i dont have alot of experience with these things

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Is in austria europe, we get alot of snow here and around the area where the car is the mountain roads get salted quite a bit too.
 
Austria...been there...jealous. Love me some Gruner Veltliner!! My 2018 xtrek here in western PA looks worse than that!! ditto our 2016 outback.
 
Austria...been there...jealous. Love me some Gruner Veltliner!! My 2018 xtrek here in western PA looks worse than that!! ditto our 2016 outback.
Going to have a testdrive and check it out tomorrow so maybe ill respond here with some pics if i get it
 
Austria...been there...jealous. Love me some Gruner Veltliner!! My 2018 xtrek here in western PA looks worse than that!! ditto our 2016 outback.
Ive been informing myself alot on the ej20 engines and have been seeing many people saying theyre just problems waiting to happen. I know this is a subaru forum so the people here are propably a bit biased. But what do you think of them in terms of failing parts and reliability?
 
Looking at buying this 2006 Impreza but a worried about the rust in the photos below. Especially on the differential since it seems to have flaked off in chunks. Ill go to see it in person the coming week so i can have an actual look. but I would like some advice on wether this seems in poor condition and other things to look out for when inspecting since i dont have alot of experience with these things

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Not bad at all .. we have an 06 WRX with just over 100k on it .. looks much more rusty that these photos .. this is nothing. That said, look closely at front lower control arms .. there was an issue with these rusting .. fairly thin metal so more vulnerable, think there was a tech serv bulletin to inspect them.
 
Test drove the car today. In the low rpms it felt quite inconsistent as in it was bumping forward not sure how to explain it. Had a look at the front lower arms and the seemed fine aswell. Time to have a think
 
Ah, should check for codes or the absence of history which may be a sign they are hiding codes
 

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