Re: Shed Of The Week: Mitsubishi GTO
Discussion
BRMMA said:
MadDog1962 said:
This one looks like it's made for an episode of "Wheeler Deallers".
Where Brewer barters the poor b
d down so much he gets the car for £200 then apparantly only spends £35 on parts and then manages to sell it to some clown for £15,000J4CKO said:
These always remind me of a Technic Lego supercar and in the Lexicon of 90's Jap metal, these were a bit like your mum getting you a pair of trainers when she went shopping,
Let me explain, you had designs on getting Nike (a Supra), Adidas (300 ZX), Kappa (Skyline) or even some Le Coq Sportif (Impreza) but she comes back with bloody Hi-Tec (3000 GT) and you cannot hide your disappointment, looks the part, is really "Jazzy" (mum word there) and was probably on offer, but it isn't the real deal, its an imposter and completely misses the point and your mates will laugh, even the spod in the Tesco Tearaway trainers.
Let me explain, you had designs on getting Nike (a Supra), Adidas (300 ZX), Kappa (Skyline) or even some Le Coq Sportif (Impreza) but she comes back with bloody Hi-Tec (3000 GT) and you cannot hide your disappointment, looks the part, is really "Jazzy" (mum word there) and was probably on offer, but it isn't the real deal, its an imposter and completely misses the point and your mates will laugh, even the spod in the Tesco Tearaway trainers.
GTO with a manual box made by Mitsubishi...tears, the gearboxes are just made of cheese, I had a Galant that blew 3 gearboxes apart, a VR-4 with a gearbox that you were not advised to change down in tip tronic at high speeds. Mates FTO blew first auto box, think he is on 3rd manual box in it now.
Couple that with the GTO's famed reliability and you're just asking for trouble, my uncle had two of these complete piles of dog st, not content with losing loads on his first one, the stupid fker went and bought another one.
First one, I put it on the ramp to find an exhaust leak, went to start it...wouldn't start £900 later it was fixed, PTU blew up, ECU capacitors leaked, main relay destroyed itself which took out the fuel pump.
Second one span the crank bearings, as well as many other things that went wrong.
The guy on here who bought that £17k Ferrari has smaller balls than whomever buys this ticking time bomb.
(yes I hate them)
Couple that with the GTO's famed reliability and you're just asking for trouble, my uncle had two of these complete piles of dog s
t, not content with losing loads on his first one, the stupid fker went and bought another one.First one, I put it on the ramp to find an exhaust leak, went to start it...wouldn't start £900 later it was fixed, PTU blew up, ECU capacitors leaked, main relay destroyed itself which took out the fuel pump.
Second one span the crank bearings, as well as many other things that went wrong.
The guy on here who bought that £17k Ferrari has smaller balls than whomever buys this ticking time bomb.
(yes I hate them)
howertings said:
leedsutd1 said:
I took this in part exchange around 5 years ago ,is it the shape before ? was mint condition ,except 1 broken fog light ,I got another for £20, only gave £1,100 for it with a full mot, no rust or scratches. only did about 12 to gallon ,so sold it ,a bloke bought it who said he was a stuntman working on the latest James bond film. all I can remember is it showed 60 mph on speedo in first gear 
Er..... I know they're a bit low-slung, but wouldn't that be 60kph in first gear (they being JDM cars)?So nearly bought a late one of these about 10 years ago. Loved em. Passion red with all the bells and whistles. High level spoiler the lot.
Got posted the day before I was about the hand the cash over. My commute went for 100 miles a week to nearly a 1000 miles a week.
I got a 306 hdi instead. Sad sad times.
Got an ex boss who has a silly bhp one. He is one of those types where nothing can touch a GT.
I wouldn't touch this one mind
Got posted the day before I was about the hand the cash over. My commute went for 100 miles a week to nearly a 1000 miles a week.
I got a 306 hdi instead. Sad sad times.
Got an ex boss who has a silly bhp one. He is one of those types where nothing can touch a GT.
I wouldn't touch this one mind
M666 EVO said:
Buy it, dismantle, sell as spares for a small fortune. Simples.
At this price it's sure to dismantle itself! But in fairness, you can't break it- not allowed :-)Assuming you're prepared to lose your £1k it'd be great fun to own. Anything that's in remotely good mechanical shape would, I presume, cost a lot more than this if my experience of Z32 ownership was anything to go by. Bought that for £5k, spent another £5k over the next 2 years keeping it running plus [cough] minor mods then sold it for £2.5. Best fun I've had motoring and tinkering though, and done more to fulfill my dream from a younger life than anything else...
Bravery required!
Whilst this was the first car with more computers than the Apollo mission (said the advertising at the time) it still has a distributor which is very quaint indeed ;0
The car a mate of mine worked-on also had a massive boot spoiler which went from wing-to-wing so, yes, you couldn't open the boot (no really!!)
It also had monogrammed seats tho - so that's all you need to know.
Brave Pills in bulk anyone?
Whilst this was the first car with more computers than the Apollo mission (said the advertising at the time) it still has a distributor which is very quaint indeed ;0
The car a mate of mine worked-on also had a massive boot spoiler which went from wing-to-wing so, yes, you couldn't open the boot (no really!!)
It also had monogrammed seats tho - so that's all you need to know.
Brave Pills in bulk anyone?
Gixer_fan said:
TinyCappo said:
There is a procedure for bleeding the air out of the hydraulic valve lash adjusters .... its a PITA proceedure but worth it if it fixes the noisy train, if not its fubar.
Mmmm... I'd suspect the fubar scenario would be the more likely ?I thought my mistubishi was a gonner till i tried it and some very angry neighbours later smooth engine and all bled.
I hate these.
Was looking at one the other night that turned up at a cruise and decided they had dated really, really badly.
A friend bought a JDM import one in the early 2000's when they were still £15,000-20,000 and it was terrible. Wasn't particularly fast, wasn't agile or fun to drive and was terribly unreliable.
A bit like piloting a big electronic barge that only had a mediocre turn of speed.
Was looking at one the other night that turned up at a cruise and decided they had dated really, really badly.
A friend bought a JDM import one in the early 2000's when they were still £15,000-20,000 and it was terrible. Wasn't particularly fast, wasn't agile or fun to drive and was terribly unreliable.
A bit like piloting a big electronic barge that only had a mediocre turn of speed.
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