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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 05:15 AM
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Hit the magic number today. Owned the car sice May 2005 with 5k miles when bought.

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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 05:29 AM
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That's awesome. What are your plans now with the car?
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 06:06 AM
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Damn that's cool.

How is it running? Any major problems? Have you followed the maintenance schedule since day one?
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 06:09 AM
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Good for you man , keep it up and keep her running.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 10:46 AM
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That's awesome. What are your plans now with the car?
Keeping it pretty much even with the mods. I'll do the dp back exhaust, Endevor TB and the Hackish reflash this spring. Other than that, it's my DD and doing anything more than that is not in my plans. I have the air-cooled VW (which will be converted to MegaSquirt II this spring as well)

Originally Posted by parrishr13
Damn that's cool.

How is it running? Any major problems? Have you followed the maintenance schedule since day one?
The transmission will need to be corrected, input shaft bearings are going. I replaced timing\balance shaft belt and water-pump. All new struts\lower springs, all new EBC discs and rear upper control arms. Not much more than that. I have kept up on almost all the routine maintenance. I failed to do the valve adjustments until a while ago and I ran the timing\balance shaft belts longer than normal.

All in all, it's a damn good car. I put on roughly 360 miles a week back and forth from work -- rain, snow, sleet and heat. The car has been very solid. My buddies at King Motorsports (Honda mainly) give me **** about the Mitsu, but it's been a good, solid and reliable car.

I plan to go at least another 60K before I get another ride.

My main requirement for my next car will be AWD. So that boils down to an EVO, WRX or A4 Avant. I really want the wagon\hatchback though. I do a ton of biking and the roof rack tends to be a gas guzzler so I'd like to put the bike in the car mostly. But, we'll see -- I do love the EVO's.

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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 11:03 AM
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nice. I hit 100k awhile ago. Im at 125k now. Never had any motor issues save me snapping a timing belt lol. As you know i as well have tranny issues. Motor wise its aways been solid.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 01:14 PM
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I drive mine just as much during the week to/from work. I am at 80k as of yesterday. I hope my ra keeps going, atleast until '12. I too, want to awd, but idk about an evo.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 04:10 PM
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I'm at 125k right now.

No issues at all, not even with the tranny. I did replace the axles at around 100k, other than that, it's flawless and running strong even with some mods.

Definitely a good car for a daily driver.

I'm also planning for a few mods this spring.. let's hope our miles keep climbing regardless of what mods we put into it.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 04:28 PM
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Nice to see guys in the 100k club. Keep em rolling.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 05:42 PM
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So many of us at ~125k.

Mine has 124963 miles. No major issues. Tranny's holding up fine.

I *might* hit 125,000 by March. So far the forecast is rain-free for at least the next 10 days, so all the miles go on my bike. The pea-soup fog this morning was no fun, but the ride home this afternoon was great.
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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 06:21 PM
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glad to hear there's a good amount of people above 100k

right now im about 109k? only 2 major engine failures but thats cause i decided to be a dumbass and tried doing so mechanical work on the engine w/o knowing what i was doing. other than that shes running like a champ
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 08:12 AM
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Hey theres a evo with a bunch of AMS work done to it at Wilde Dodge my brother saw, its a white 04 with 28000 miles for 19 grand. I just dont have the money right now but I figured I would share it with a fellow Milwaukee RAlli man.
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Buxnbaas
Hey theres a evo with a bunch of AMS work done to it at Wilde Dodge my brother saw, its a white 04 with 28000 miles for 19 grand. I just dont have the money right now but I figured I would share it with a fellow Milwaukee RAlli man.
You don't say. I'll have to look it up.
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Old Feb 18, 2011 | 02:32 PM
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mines has only 80k miles. but 30k of it is on race tracks lol
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by SSP-Ralliart
mines has only 80k miles. but 30k of it is on race tracks lol
30k on race tracks! Shazam, that's a lot of racing.
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