My Range Rover went through $7,000 in 6 months, so, yeah.

For 5 years and 100k miles, that's nothing for a sports car. You need to go buy a BMW, MB, or Range Rover, or Porsche, then come back and tell us how crappy you think Evo's are (yup, I've owned them all)

 

^^^
and that's why I told my mom hell no on buying a Range Rover unless she made sure to dump it before the warranty was up. I've heard a few bad stories about those SUVs

 

Sorry to hear about all your troubles. For the other side, I just traded in my 08 GSR with 99,300 miles on a MG 2013 GSR. I never had any actual repairs or any failures. Brake pads, tires, lots of oil and filters, and a few minor recalls (hood latch, fuel rail). No diff pins, no AYC pump, timing chain, or other issues. Cobb OTS map at 11,000 miles, boltons and protune at 60,000.
Also, shocks and struts on these cars are probably overdue around 60 k miles, so you can't complain about that. Sounds like you got a bad one, or that it was seriously abused in those 2,000 miles before you got it

 

Damn thats a lot of problem

 

That's a pretty ****ty situation.

 

I feel your pain, I have had a similar situation with my last car.
What I learned is NEVER buy a car the 1st model year.
Just to many glitches, that always get fixed updated.
I bought a 2008 g37s the week it came out.
After owning for only 50k miles, it had to go. It was hit 2x, so was never the same. But I had so many issues.
Factory nav went bad, xenon headlight dead @ 500 miles.
Brake problems every 12k, oil consumption issue caused blown engine. The only reason I didn't go postal was the loaners were brand new g37x, so I didn't mind raping the loaners.
Huge difference on the 2012s, I drove my buddy's brand new g, all the early build issues are gone. Talk about rattles, I paid 45 k for a car that had rattles in the first 100 miles. Had to buy an aftermarket exhaust, because muffler baffles kept collapsing.

 

none of those cars you mentioned come even close to a Mitsu..Evos are a poor man fast car IMO...as for all the issues it sucks, but sometimes the more you babie a car the more issues rise, have seen it before on some of my previous cars...Evo X are really good and comfy cars for every day use and unfortunately you drew the straw for a lemon..at the end of the day I say keep the car and enjoy it because you have done most of the maintenance and have replaced a lot of parts...i say drive it like its meant to be drive, and if that doesn't work trade it in.

 

i usually don't see how mileage evos and if they exist ppl are told to stay away from them anyway... so i guess if you have 1 your eithe rstuck with it, or your tired of fixing things and get rid of it for a newer model or something else

 

Sucks dude, I feel you though!

 

The only reason I stayed away from purchasing a used evo was because of fear of the previous owner beating the hell out of it.

 

I'm looking at '08s right now and I gotta admit I'm kinda scared hahaha. Maybe I'll find 09s or above.

 

I can attest to this. I have been told by several people including at least 1 Master Mechanic.

The X wasn't sold in the US in 09, go with no older than a 10' model

 

Without any searching at all (don't hurt me), why 10' only?

 

Didn't really mean a 2010 only, I just meant I would avoid anything older than a 2010. The only other year they were available in the states here was 08, and there were a lot of first year issues. Things like timing chain and what not. Mitsu corrected most of those issues later on.

 

why on earth wld you be looking at a 08 in 2013? Lol like someone said you should stray from first year models altho mitsu sometimes don't learn even after that ala the 2nd gen eclipse (what a pain in the *** to keep running) but yes as previously said get a 10 or newer. Get a 08 only if its your project car at this point. I seen a 95k mile 08mr for 17k that seems prime for a project car.