Okay guys I got my ralliart about 2 weeks ago maybe less. Been really easy for the last 2 weeks and been driving as much as I can to break everything in. I just hit 750 miles tonight and decided to get on it a bit tonight.
Couple things Im noticing that I want to throw out there and make sure its normal. first off. seems like the transmission is really noisy. gears 1-3 seem to be very whinny. Second, sometimes between stopped at idle then to 1st seems to make a clunk noise, like I gave it a little gas before it was in gear, and thats only sometimes. And 3rd, tonight when I got home I sat in my car with the engine running for about 2 minutes to let everything cool down. When I got out of the car I heard a crackling sound. Almost like popcorn or something. crawled under the car and it was coming from the exhaust. googled that one and seems like thats just the new car exhaust cooling down.

Does that all sounds right??? need to know. If not im going to the local mitsu dealership Saturday.

 

Well everything you described happens to my 2009 on a regular basis and I have over 50,000 miles on her, so yeah I would say nothing to worry about, enjoy the car, it does make weird noises but all normal, (clunk!,shink!,pop pop ping ping!,wooooshhh!!!!)

 

Same here. This is normal has what you have described has happened to me. As a matter of fact i have asked the exact same questions.!

 

EVERYTHING IS NORMAL...the manual helps a lot know the car how it behaves and it will reward you in the end..break in period is 2k miles but 3k to be safe.... You will learn a lot here in the forum... Good luck

 

YUP! ALL NORMAL!!!

Personally I love the whinny sound, makes it sound like a race car!!!!!

 

Ya me tooooo! I LOVE being able to here all the mechanical parts of the car working in unison!!! So f-ing sexy

 

whinny sound is funny.. haha i start to like it alil bit

 

all normal wait till you take it to a range and down the brakes smell diffrent but it could be rubber as well coz the tyres are peeling

 

All is normal, I love the whining of the gears in the car. I think that it sounds like the actual rally car transmissions.

 

Ya totally helps to read over the manual, I was driving my car pretty hard and the when I went to go turn it off the fan stayed on!! I then remembered that in the manual it stated that if the turbo was to hot the fan will stay on even after the engine has been turned off!!

My point is that chazyronnie is right, read the manual and you will find all the answers to most of the questions you may want to ask!!

 

clunky shifting = tcsst newb.
(i mean no offence by that)

It took me about a month to get used to how the tcsst behaves,,,,
now no more clunky stuff