Your choice and your opinion and no one can take that away from you. Toyota makes a great product no doubt and there is a large aftermarket for those celicas. Why are you changing the oil in your Evo every 1000 miles? That is servere overkill. Every car I have ever owed has gotten an oil change every 5k miles, including my EVO. The manufactuer even calls for 5k mile oil change intervals. Remember you are using full synthetic (i hope) and sythetic is designed to last longer. I think you are killeing yourself on all this maintanence for no reason. The Evo is a high-perfomance car but it's no Lambo, you don't have to get crazy on maintanence... IMO

 

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Why are you changing the oil in your Evo every 1000 miles? That is servere overkill.

No, my Evo is never serverely overkill, I race it once in a while...but I never launch it at the light or go pass the redline. But I didn't drive it a lot, avg. 1000 miles/ three months. Any yeah, I do use Mobile 1 synthetic. Anyway, I thought that the oil only last about three months. So I just go ahead and take it to the dealer to do the oil change. I bought my Evo for a bit over a year and it only has 7100 miles on it, but I been doing like 5 oil change at the dealer already.


-nsnguyen-

Thank for the advice anyway. But more likely I would still keep the Evo 'cause the boost is really addictive. You also mention something about doing your own maintainace, but isn't that going to void the factory warrenty?

P.S. I am a car guy more than you can imagine, sometime I just have some weird though.

 

As long as the fluids and filters that you use are within spec (i.e. synthetic motor oil of the proper weight) then there shouldn't be a problem. It is a good idea to keep receipts for the fluids you do buy, but it is not vital. AFAIK it is illegal for a car manufacturer to void a warranty because of who does the work, they can only void if they can prove the work hasn't been done or that the car has been used in a manner inconsistent with the warranty terms. I have had no problems getting warranty work done on my car even though it has never been in the dealership for a routine fluid change.

EDIT: The Magnuson-Moss warranty act expressly forbids any tie-in of warranty coverage to an ongoing service after the sale of a vehicle:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/...#Magnuson-Moss

Look under "tie-in" and you will see that the FTC expressly forbids a manufacturer from voiding a warranty because you chose to perform your own service.

Yeah, that could be true, and maybe I overreacted a bit with my last post.

 

i would be happy as a clam if '04 was the final model year... re-sell would be nice... but mostly the exclusivity of us '03 and '04 owners would be sweet.

 

-v8killer-

I look under you mod list and see that you changed the B.O.V. But did the dealer void your warrenty for that?

-nsnguyen-

Thanks for the info. and the link.

 

If you were really a "car guy" there is no way in hell you could compare a Celica and Evolution..

 

Nope, just got my transmission fixed under warranty, the 5th gear grinding issue. Besides they cannot void my warranty unless they can prove it caused a problem... Not worried about it. I don;t abuse my car, and knock on wood I haven't ahd any real problems yet.

 

The Evo is here to stay... Mitsu is already releasing info on the Evo X, which will likely be the basis/if not for the IX.... o/w the IX will borrow heavily from the present VIII styling, incorporating the Lancer RA headlight treatment and introduce the 4G63 with MIVAC.

Second, Mitsu does not have the resources to make a USDM-only Evo and sell a different car world wide. Plus, too many of its diehard fans in the states will be insulted and buy the competitors cars... like the STi, the Mazadaspeed 6, etc.

What the US does allow Mitsu to do is provide more derivations of the platform, like GSR, RS, and MR (edition), unlike the European markets... since we're crazy, which is a good thing.

Third, the Evo is keeping what's left of MMA US sales up (that and the Endeavor... great truck), and interest alive. I'd actually expect to see an 'EVO' version of the upcoming Colt... which is already a Euro grandslam... and perhaps even the next-gen Eclipse in the future, but no the same performance as the Lancer EVO model.

The EVO is here to stay.... AMEN.

 

I want my 5 min back for reading these posts. who ever compares a celica to a evo should be stonned.

 

...and STONED, too...

 

i also believe everything i read

 

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I want my 5 min back for reading these posts. who ever compares a celica to a evo should be stonned.

Whatever~~~~~~if you read carefully you will notice that I never compared a celica to the Evo beside the way it looks. Neither, I ever thought that celica is better than the Evo. These cars are very different from each other, and I like both of them.


-Lee Chun-

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If you were really a "car guy" there is no way in hell you could compare a Celica and Evolution..

Hey celica is not a bad car. In its class, it pretty much like the Evo. For $20,000 you get a GT-S with 180 hp along with the 6-speed transmittion. So far ( not counting the Dodge SRT-4), it is one of the best car in that class. I would never compare an Evo to a Celica...these car are in totally different class. It would be like comparing banana to an orange. Any car guy would be able to seperate these things...(don't get me wrong, I didn't say that you are or you are not a car guy).

 

man I actually read all 3 pages.. stop arguing about the celia and evo

evo is here to stay.

 

Sorry dude,.........kindda funny isn't it.

 

I think you are misreading that statement..