16th Apr 2001, 16:04
Sorry to hear about your car. I purchased my 2000 GT almost a year ago, I still have not broken 10,000 miles yet and the only problem is that I have 2 bent wheels and the clear coat is peeling on all 4. My dealer is giving me a real hard time about replacing these wheels under warranty under the basis that I abused my car!! That is totally ridiculous because I pamper my car more than I pamper myself! It sat in storage for during the winter months!! There is no excuse for any of my wheels to be bent or to have the clear coat peeling. Other than that the car is great the but my dealership isn't.
20th Jun 2002, 12:32
I own a 2000 Eclipse GT and I have had more BS problems with this car than any car I have ever owned. You all might want to check out this site and see some of the problems everybody else is having. This car has the build quality of a yugo! And every dealer I have talked to about anything has given me the runaround... I will never buy another mitsubishi again. PERIOD! Bad service, bad quality!
20th Aug 2002, 02:56
To everyone who has owned a 10 spoke wheel. These wheels are DEFECTIVE!!! These came on the 98 and 99 GSX. I have seen a bunch of comments on here about the soft rims... Besides the fact they suck. I believe they made the same rims on the 2000 rims and maybe 2001 rims also. Well here is good news! Someone has filed a CLASS ACTION suit against them. My rims did the same, and I joined the fight. There are already about 300 people in on this who have had the same problem. PLEASE email hilton@litigation-results.com. They will send you the information and something you can sign for them to represent you. It may take a year or two, but it is worth replacing your rims. And if you already have, get your money back! email me at isobro@yahoo.com if you need help signing up. Here is the website with some info on the case. http://www.shslitigation.com/news_mit.htm.
8th Oct 2002, 00:28
I am a mechanic of about 10 years. I have had three eclipses in my time and my latest is a 1995 gs. I just put on some new tires and was surprised to find that when I balanced the tires (something you must do after installing a tire) I found the rims to be bent. All of them. Not only bent, but the clear coat is peeling and, by virtue of a total garbage design, the center caps are totally corroded. The center caps are corroding and chipping and the inferior plain steel retaining clip used on the inside of the rim to hold the center cap in place all, but crumbled to a pile of rusty dust when I had to remove it for balancing. I have also compared the wheel studs and lug nuts to those you would find on a toyota (where I now work) and found the mitsu lugs and studs to be about ten times more corroded and rusted than the toyota. The funny thing is, the toyota was older and had more miles on it. The lug nuts seemed to be identical in shape, size, and thread type only obviously inferior in quality. So I ofcourse switched all my lugs to the toyota lugs, I have yet to change the studs. I have found in general that mitsubishi engineering seems to be totally inferior to toyota engineering and after a brief search on the internet I have concluded that mitsu rims, studs and lugs are cheap pieces of junk just sitting there waiting to rust and cause problems. I only hope mine last longer than I own my car.
18th Jan 2003, 22:02
First, I'd like to say to the person who feels that those of us having problems are not maintaining our cars that it may be the case with some of us, but I'm an old school driver who still enjoys donning the monkey suit and doing as much maintenance work as possible on a religious basis. Oil and filter changes are done every 3,000 miles. Tune-ups, tire rotations, coolant changes all follow the owner's manual schedule. My friends consider me a granny driver, so it's not like I neglect and flog the vehicles. My Lancer was a lemon and I don't miss it one bit. OK, to the point. After my 1998 Dodge Avenger (built at Mitsubishi's Illinois factory) was rear-ended and totaled out I bought a brand new 2002 Lancer. I had assumed that because one Mitsubishi had given me such great service (111,000 trouble free miles) the new model would be even better. I also assumed the start-up knock would either work itself out in time or the warranty would cover it without quibble. Well, you know what happens when we ass/u/me. The knocking got so bad that a co-worker innocently commented that he wasn't aware that the Lancer was available with a Diesel engine. The dealer stonewalled and bluffed. The service rep tried telling me the engineers design the piston slap into the engine. Baloney! Only after I sent a registered Last Chance or Lemon Law letter to the dealer principal did the rep tell me they would order a short block, adding that he was certain it wouldn't cure anything. Too little, too late. By that time I'd traded the car in on a Toyota Echo. Now there's a car I'd recommend anytime. No piston slaps, no orange peel paint, no grinding brakes after 5,000 miles. Steer clear of Mitsubishi, please!
1st Mar 2001, 10:48
I purchased 1999 Mitsubishi Eclipse brand new off the showroom floor. Within the 1st week the transmission went out, not long after it went out again. The dealership supposedly found the defect, now it does not even make it to 20000 miles and goes out again and again.
Over 8000 dollars in warranty work. Mitsubishi refuses the warranty because they say we abused the car, and they are not going to spend another dime on it. I pay 500 a month plus insurance for an unreliable car from the start. Dealership stated they would never take a hit on this car, they kept fixing the transmission but never tried to figure out why it keeps blowing, except with the excuse of abuse.
I am so upset I have had to turn it over to a lawyer and my car is sitting at the dealership, unable to move unless I have a tow truck. It is a beautiful car, but not worth the money I was charged for it.