Advice..

djeclips

Sorry,only realised that now,Didn't mean to step on your heals.

Mat Hammond

Hi Mat from Brighton here.

The Evo will be a great car, but make sure you do not let the Saab go for silly money.

But once you get the keys in your hands get ready for some big bills.

Anything over 10,000 miles p.a is a nightmare...

Your insurance costs are stupid. I am 35 and pay £600.

I sold my FQ300 last Sunday and will miss it badly but even as a third car I recently had to have a new clutch, service and front pads and at the dealer that little lot would cost £1500.

Tip, buy a cheap second car...

You will love the performance!


Regards
MAT

Mat Hammond

Sorry, only just seen the extra info on page two of this item.

Walk away from this car!

Regards
MAT

unkel

Walk away!

As soon as I started to read your first post from today, I started screaming...

D!ve^Bomb!

Mat Hammond wrote:

Your insurance costs are stupid. I am 35 and pay £600.

god bless ya.. do you know what the average price for insurance is in Ireland?

Interceptor

newband wrote:

god bless ya.. do you know what the average price for insurance is in Ireland?

Oh not this old song. I'm 37 and fully comp on me Espace costs €435. Something has to make up for losing my hair and having to drive a plastic shed on wheels.

Impr0v, hold out for the right Evo, FMSH, AYC, and all the trimmings. Keep an eye to the specialist jap importers (see the autotrader) and sell the Saab as soon as you can. Buy a '96 1.3 anything to get you around and put the Saab money somewhere safe until the Evo of your dreams pops up. Try and blag a few spins to form an opinion of how it should feel. Let us know when you find it and we can all get a spin...

'c

impr0v

Sorry to keep harping on about this but.....

It now turns out that they had serviced the vehicle at least once, and it's using fully synthetic oil. He talked to Mitsi Ireland and they recommended a 4500 mile service interval only if semi-synthetic oil was used, and 9000 was perfectly adequate when fully synthetic was used. They also told him that 95 RON (i.e. normal unleaded) is perfectly fine to use in it. 98 will give extra performance, and it is up to the driver if they want to use it.

He reiterated that they will provide a one year warranty with it, and will not remove the limiter. He is now down another 2k as well...Another 3k and he'll be at the amount I offered originally.

IANOC

if the car has no service history dont even entertain yourself m8.
if it is a demo car and has been used round the rallying it will probably end in bad engine as you know they didnt drive it like a micra while at the rallies.as the car shouldnt have been brought passed 3000rpm for the first 1000 miles
if you want one that bad you should find one with one of the importers that would have been checked over when imported
hope this helps

Squirrel

get yourself a nice old shape 530i or 525i or if you want performance and can stretch to it an E55 or M5. you could also wait a few years and get an evo8

impr0v

With fully synthetic in it and one service in 6500 miles they can't have done much damage to it unless, as you say, they gave it hell in the first thousand miles or so. When I mentioned the demo for a rally, I meant they parked it up outside the hotel adjacent to the service area for the Circuit of Ireland and had decals stuck on it advertising the garage.

As above, once it has had one service and the proper oil in it since early on, it has sufficiently low mileage on the clock for very little damage, if any, to be done.

I would be concerned about the fuel type, but if Mitsubishi Ireland are saying 'ordinary unleaded' then again, 6.5k miles on ordinary unleaded isn't going to make it go pop. If I can get the car at a sufficiently low price, I think the risks are worth taking.

Re the beamers, in my view the current 5 series raised the bar so much design-wise, that the old shape 5 series cars now look extremely dated. The purists will obviously have their own opinion on this, but I wouldn't buy one. And as I said earlier in this thread I'd rather the VII than VIII.

Hobbers

Hi mate. Just read this thread thanks to a guy who posted a link to it on lancer register.

It really would be a massive gamble to buy this car given what you know about this car.

A few things should be put straight.

These cars can NEVER EVER be run on 95 RON fuel without serious risk of engine damage caused by detenation. Mitsubishi would not have said that so you are being lied to. Either that or Mitsi Ireland are incompetent. The only way these cars can be run safely on 95 RON fuel is if the engine ECU has been mapped to do so and then it would be down on power compared to standard.

It doesn't matter if it's fully synthetic oil or vegetable oil in there it needs changing every 4,500 miles. End of story. Service intervals are there for a reason they aren't a suggestion. Again Mitsi would not have said that it is OK to service tehm every 9000 miles (another lie)

Have they got documented evidence of this apparent service it has been given? You want to see the bills

Was the car properly run in? I doubt it.

If the car is is mistreated you can do plenty of damage to the engine in 65 miles let alone 6,500 miles.

The car does look nice granted, but these cars are expensive enough to run without buying one that is likely to be troublesome. If you've got your heart set on an Evo then wait for a good example to come with a full service history and a past that is less shady than this one's.

You don't know me, I don't know you but just take this free bit of advice from an existing Evo owner: Don't buy this unless you get it for £2k less than the going rate because that it what an engine rebuild will cost you.

These cars are superb but when they go wrong they make your life hell and your wallet empty, and this one is just waiting to do that.

Tommy Vercetti

Yep, the dealer is making it up as he goes along. Do not take the risk.

Buy a '96 1.3 anything to get you around and put the Saab money somewhere safe until the Evo of your dreams pops up.

best thing to do imo ^^^

unkel

And thank Hobbers for taking the trouble registering especially to give you advice