buying an Evo 6 - advice please
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Just been to test drive an evo 6 and it was amazing, im blown away! BUT there are a couple of things putting me off, on hard acceleration the car seemed to cut out in second, the guy told me it was because the car wasn;t warm enough and the electronics where saving the turbo, so i carried on driving doing a couple of 0 -60 tests and it didn't happen again, then i was doing 40 and was in 3rd gear and floored it and it happened again, does anyone know what this might be? the guy said he had taken it to a garage and they said it was normal when the car is cold!
Also there was water dripping out of some sort of drainage hole above the front driveshafts when i came back from the test drive, the car does have air con, could it be that?
i didn't even want an evo, i wanted an m3 or m5 but after the test drive i am smitten!
Also there was water dripping out of some sort of drainage hole above the front driveshafts when i came back from the test drive, the car does have air con, could it be that?
i didn't even want an evo, i wanted an m3 or m5 but after the test drive i am smitten!
You were 'ragging' it from cold?? Not a good start at all, even worse if he let someone test drive it and then said that it always happens when cold. Did it have a oil temp gauge at all, that should of told you if the oil was up to temperature. I would be very weary, infact i would probably leave it.
Walk away! PLenty of problem free Evos out there. Join us on the dark side http://www.lancerregister.com/ , great buyers guide and honest info.
The cut out under acceleration you mention is in all likelihood "boost cut": the ECU senses the car is running higher than standard boost and so cuts the boost entirely. As the engine goes from running 1.1 bar+ of boost to 0 bar in an instant it often feels like you've hit a brick wall.
Boost cut is often caused by modifications to the hardware on the car (air filter, exhaust, manual boost controller, etc) without remapping the ECU and can therefore obviously be solved by a remap (costs from £300 to £650)
The water you mention may well be from the overflow pipe from the coolant reservoir. On the later cars this is in front of the offside front wheel and will quite often dump excess coolant after the car has been driven hard for a while so is perfectly normal. You obviously need to check that this is the case though.
So, all in all I wouldn't let the two issues you described above put you off the car. Investigate them and make sure they are what I think they are and then do the usual checks. You need to be know your stuff when buying Evos - very few of them are standard and they can cost big money to put right if they have issues.
Boost cut is often caused by modifications to the hardware on the car (air filter, exhaust, manual boost controller, etc) without remapping the ECU and can therefore obviously be solved by a remap (costs from £300 to £650)
The water you mention may well be from the overflow pipe from the coolant reservoir. On the later cars this is in front of the offside front wheel and will quite often dump excess coolant after the car has been driven hard for a while so is perfectly normal. You obviously need to check that this is the case though.
So, all in all I wouldn't let the two issues you described above put you off the car. Investigate them and make sure they are what I think they are and then do the usual checks. You need to be know your stuff when buying Evos - very few of them are standard and they can cost big money to put right if they have issues.
youngsyr said:
The cut out under acceleration you mention is in all likelihood "boost cut": the ECU senses the car is running higher than standard boost and so cuts the boost entirely. As the engine goes from running 1.1 bar+ of boost to 0 bar in an instant it often feels like you've hit a brick wall.
Boost cut is often caused by modifications to the hardware on the car (air filter, exhaust, manual boost controller, etc) without remapping the ECU and can therefore obviously be solved by a remap (costs from £300 to £650)
The water you mention may well be from the overflow pipe from the coolant reservoir. On the later cars this is in front of the offside front wheel and will quite often dump excess coolant after the car has been driven hard for a while so is perfectly normal. You obviously need to check that this is the case though.
So, all in all I wouldn't let the two issues you described above put you off the car. Investigate them and make sure they are what I think they are and then do the usual checks. You need to be know your stuff when buying Evos - very few of them are standard and they can cost big money to put right if they have issues.
Boost cut? I think you'll find its fuel cut that you're experiencing.Boost cut is often caused by modifications to the hardware on the car (air filter, exhaust, manual boost controller, etc) without remapping the ECU and can therefore obviously be solved by a remap (costs from £300 to £650)
The water you mention may well be from the overflow pipe from the coolant reservoir. On the later cars this is in front of the offside front wheel and will quite often dump excess coolant after the car has been driven hard for a while so is perfectly normal. You obviously need to check that this is the case though.
So, all in all I wouldn't let the two issues you described above put you off the car. Investigate them and make sure they are what I think they are and then do the usual checks. You need to be know your stuff when buying Evos - very few of them are standard and they can cost big money to put right if they have issues.
Id walk away from that car. Who does 0-60 tests on a road test!
I would never ever let someone cane my car from cold - even if they were going to buy it.
Walk away. So little mechanical sympathy on the part of the owner rings alarm bells to me.
Unfortunately Evos are owned by two types of person and he sounds like the wrong type.
Plenty of good ones on the MLR.
Walk away. So little mechanical sympathy on the part of the owner rings alarm bells to me.
Unfortunately Evos are owned by two types of person and he sounds like the wrong type.
Plenty of good ones on the MLR.
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0-60 thrashes on a test drive!! Nuts. Probably a tine bomb of parts about to fail. avoid. That's the nice thing about buying private you have the opportunity to suss out the owner and see if they know their arse from their elbow or just hop in every morning dial in 6000 rpm dump the clutch and screetch of the driveway. I'm sure there's a gd one out there for you
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