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The guy from the earlier post is right. you wont find one for 16k without high miles or beat to hell. I got mine for 17k with 94,000mi on it and it had some minor problems with it.
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I owned an 04 Srt 4 for a couple years, and now own an 06 Evo. The Srt was decently quick, responded well to mods and overall was a pretty fun car. The more power I made in the Srt, the more I began to dislike it. Traction became a huge issue even with good tires and wider rims. It got to the point where the Srt was not fun to drive in wet conditions, and flooring it under 30 mph literally just broke the tires loose even in dry conditions. I traded the Srt in for the Evo and never looked back. The Evo handles far better, the steering is far better, it makes excellent gains with mods and most importantly for me has traction in every gear.
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that thought was going through my head too, srt4 is more of a cheap teenagers toy car to me, evo is for a more serious car enthusiast, being as it has more potential and capabilities.
that thought was going through my head too, srt4 is more of a cheap teenagers toy car to me, evo is for a more serious car enthusiast, being as it has more potential and capabilities.
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^^i'd have to agree. i owned a 03 srt4 up until april of this year when i sold it. i also have a 06 evo9 that i bought over 2 years ago, and the plan was to have the srt4 as the dd/back up car for me and my fiancee. that didn't last long as i feel more and more in love with my evo and the way the car rides and shifts. don't get me wrong, i loved my srt4 when that was my dd, but you really can't compare the two. its like apples to oranges IMO.
it was a fun car to drive. only had stage 1 and a few other simple bolt-ons on but i couldn't get any traction either until 3rd gear.
after going from fwd to awd, i will never own another fwd again but thats from my own experience.
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it was a fun car to drive. only had stage 1 and a few other simple bolt-ons on but i couldn't get any traction either until 3rd gear.
after going from fwd to awd, i will never own another fwd again but thats from my own experience.
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kristin
thats completely dependent on the driver and the driver only. i just read a thread the other day of a guy hitting ~210,000 miles on stock clutch, and there are people out there who burn 'em up at 3,000 miles.
so just take in to account your driving style, if you do a bunch of launches, slip like crazy between gears, rev to a high rpm on take offs, don't expect it to last very long, especially after any modifications. On stock power or close to stock power, maybe exhaust and intake or something, stock clutch should be good for a while.
so just take in to account your driving style, if you do a bunch of launches, slip like crazy between gears, rev to a high rpm on take offs, don't expect it to last very long, especially after any modifications. On stock power or close to stock power, maybe exhaust and intake or something, stock clutch should be good for a while.
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i did have a few issues with the car. the shifter fork broke on me and the dealership (since it was still under warranty at the time) tried to tell me i needed a new clutch and trans. (long story short, i battled with the supervisor and his idiot employees when i returned with the stock clutch after they accused me of racing the car, trying to get thru their pea sized brains that i didn't need a new clutch. of course this was after i bought a brand new clutch and my fiancee and i fought to get the trans out in our garage. (FYI - srt4 trans and clutch jobs are a pain imo compared to the evo and dsm ones that i've helped with when you're doing the work outta your 1 car garage.) idk if its cuz i'm a girl that they figured i didn't know anything about cars, but that was the last time that i stepped foot in a dodge dealership.)
from the moment i owned the car, the clutch was never adjusted properly so i had some synch row issues too, but nothing really bad - just more of a p.i.t.a when the car is cold.
also, the wires for the lights melted together and would randomly work or not work (so i had to drive with the brights on sometimes, which really pissed off some people
) i did hear from a few other srt4 owners that they have had a similar experience. makes your commute home more interesting when you smell something burning and the headlights no longer work 
but i did push the car and put on 80k miles on it before i sold it, so of course you're gonna run into issues.
if you haven't driven both, i suggest that you do. granted that you'll be able to find a srt4 cheaper then an evo, but it all depends on what your comfortable with. imo...ahnds down go with the evo if you got the funds to afford it.
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Just due to the nature of FWD, the Srt would never be able to obtain the kind of traction an EVO could. Even with a completely aftermarket suspension, the Srt still has the issue that it is trying to put all that power through the front wheels.
I had an 03 SRT4 and it in no way compares to my evo. It is a POS in my opinion. Everything on it is cheap down to the crappy plastic vacum hoses that always pop off. It doesnt handle worth a damn if you are making any kind of real power no matter what you do to the suspension, the interior is cheap...I mean you can see the door panels move outward when you roll the windows all the way up. The motors can take a beating though I put 100k on mine abusing the hell out of it and the compression was perfect till the day I traded it in.
