What was their response about the fine metal shavings *all over?* The tops of the pistons don't show any signs of detonation to me, just looks like a rod let loose and the aftermath ensued. Who in the corparte chain made the final say? Like all warranty work if you point things out and continue to fight they might eventually give in. It might help to ask a lawyer friend what's his take on the situation?

All things said, 15k is a boat or a brand spankin new honda civic. For that money you could talk to some of the vendors here about a built race motor. Tell them thanks for the teardown, thanks for nothing else.

 

When I saw them just taking the top end apart and not the bottom end which has the parts that actually caused the problem it was a very bad indication that they were just asking you to tear down the engine far enough so they could garner enough evidence to cover their ***.

I thought the issue was the pre load in the rod bolts and if they had over streched resulting in rod bearing intolerance - fairly had to tell from looking at the head

Very dissapointing to see the deal go down like this

I agree with the other members that you should consider aftermarket alternatives and the factory parts are expensive and not any stronger than the ones which just failed

 

Does anyone know if Stew could take his vehicle back to stock appearing and have it covered under warranty? Or were all of his mods in plain view. If a car is stock in appearance and pre-detonates is it not covered? Anyone?

 

First off, the $15 k was a 'swag' estimate.. If Mitsu does not cover it I will be doing the rebuild and the price will not be that high.. Basically I'm looking for experts to help analyze the motor and tell me if they find any signs of detonation..

 

You forgot about the transmission and turbo....

..but the $15k was a "If the dealer were to put it back to stock, working condition" estimate..

Dont hang on the $15k number guys.


..Already talked to the Insurance company, they do NOT cover me at all. I do not have "mechanical failure" on my policy. Should have chosen that option, huh.

 

I think that the problem was his previous posting of the damaged enegine here which apparently captured the attention of

I think that anyone else who finds him / her self in a similar situation would prob be best served to refrain from posting on the interenet about their situation, carefully restore the car to 100% stock condition and have it towed to a dealer for repair.

Once they were aware of all the drama posted on here I think at that point his car is flagged on the compuer as no power train warranty,

 

don't give mitsu anymore money.

get that car out of their hands before they mess something else up

 

Here's a synopsos of the first 2 threads.. The car went to the dealer basically stock, they found threads HERE on EVOM that suggested I had mods in the car previously, and used that against me. I also stated I was not trying to pull a fast one on Mitsu by returning to stock, just attempting to get a fair estimate of what actually caused the damage, which they did not do.

 

Take the 15k somewhere else! Buy a buil stroked block, big turbo built the trans, ect. and do couple burnouts on the mitsu driveway.

 

They probably took the head off, and when it was "being sent for inspection" just left it in the bathroom or something until they were ready to just tell you that the mods caused the problem. I mean, do you honestly think they would have ever not denied the warranty claim when they had so much information to point the problems to.

It's sad cause all you wanted was a fair estimate from Mitsu, yet I'm fairly confident that they did not give you that.

Maybe one of these snoops that Mitsu pays to surf the internet for warranty claim denials could get on here and explain to all of its customers EXACTLY why the warranty was denied and how the aftermarket parts played into this. It would sure help their public relations and give them some credibility. If they are qualified to deny warranty they should be qualified to defend that.

 

I just mentioned all cept the turbo.

Built Tranny is I think 3300
Head with core built = like 2700
Built bottom End with core is almost 4 grand.
And turbo people sell around here for like 200ish unless it is the 05's.

Or you can go all out to put all the new stuff together and buy my spare HKS 3037s Turbo kit, and Alchy kit.

Al could get you some insane power out of the HKS turbo as it used to be his.

 

they really stoop low in Mitsu. Searching forums.

My EVO is stock and if something happened and they say no watch my foot inside his mouth.. well I have lawyers

 

I was thinking the same thing. They just pulled the head to look for some BS reason to deny coverage. It was just going through the paper work, so to say, with the final determination done before the tear down began.

sucks.

 

Thats why my Evo is the last Mitsu I will ever buy.

 

True, but I do NOT have a good core block... so add $1800 onto that or so..

..and the turbo is an 05.