Hello,

First Off let me say congratulations, you have decided to buy a truely spectacular automobile.

Welcome to the forum, for here you will get all the information you ever wanted about this car, be it good or bad, LOL

OK, Now a typical 03 evo will have anywhere between 90-120K miles on it(in the US) as Japan destroys/parts out the cars because of the heavy polluter law.

To me an Evo that has been maintained and not abused are great cars to have.

Get a carfax.

Get someone to perform a mechnical check that knows about the car(also known as a pre-purchase inspection).
Not your local shop that doesn't even know what an Evo is. Bring it to a specialty shop or even a Mitsubishi dealer(they will hopefully be able to get you service and warranty history).

Leakdown and compression on the engine, why? Because you can get a good idea if the rings and valves are sealing correctly.

Check for any abnornal noises, this of course to be done with someone who knows the Evo's and what noises they usually make.

If you are mechanically inclined you are at an advantage.

Those of you with just enough money to get the car and pay for insurance should reconsider this purchase. It would be great until you find out that you will need a clutch within the next month and have no funds to fix it.

Good Luck to all of you guys looking to get an Evo

Nick

 

good info.......especially coming from the guy with the highest mileage evo

 

wow, congrats on the mileage. How many miles were on it when you bought it?

 

iirc 64k

 

is it stock insides?? because it looks like you changed out that stuff unless you have another evo...unless wiseco makes boost controlers lol

 

Haha, no. Most people on the board know that my stock internals were replace at 209k. It does have the original block,crank, TC, trans ,and rear.

 

nice advice...im considering an evo with over 120k miles...if it checks out good though i might take her home...she's going to be my dd anyway so i dont care about racking the miles

 

I have my eye on one with 83k to be my DD as well. Just not sure yet if I should.

 

Good luck in your search guys.

 

Wow, this makes me feel great about my 80k! Congrats OP!

 

Bump for potential buyer out there that have no idea how to use the search function, LOL

 

Good stuff, and wow that's pretty awesome you have your stock transmission and diffs still!

 

this makes me feel alot better, the MR that im looking at has close to 60 but all the service records. hopefulle the clutch doesent die to soon after i get it.... my tiburon's clutch went out at 12000 (tons of tib owners' went out under 20K) miles and warrenty wouldnt even cover it.

 

Honestly, the clutch on an evo really depends on the driver. I have had 3 different manual cars with heavy clutches that required a ton of pressure to engage so driving the evo is not that rough to me (65K original owner of Summer 2005 Evo 8 RS).

But I know other people who had to replace the clutch at like 30K because they were either terrible drivers or could not handle the semi heavy clutch that is stock.

 

Care to touch on any reliability issues on the car over the 255k ?