Problems the car had already when I bought it:
Head gasket blown
Exhaust manifold gasket blown
Ball joints shot
Turbo leaking oil
Fuel gauge not working
A/C not working
Syncs for first gear shot
Burned oil
Rear hatch shocks shot.
Problems after I had most of the previous fixed:
Alternator died on the way home from the shop after having thousand of dollars worth of work done..
Radiator exploded days later
Differential exploded. (This was the point I decided the car was costing me more than it was worth and traded it in for 500 bucks off a '99 S10)
I bought this car for cheap knowing it had a lot of work that needed to be done to get it running good again. Like most GS-X's it was owned by some idiot that probably ragged on it all the time so it was in bad shape. I hoped I would be able to fix the problems and have a nice good running GSX, but the car was just falling apart. I didn't feel comfortable driving anywhere due to the fear of it breaking down on me. Which it did many times in the month or two I owned it. I don't know whether to put the blame on the previous owner or Mitsubishi with my experience, but I've heard a lot of people say these cars are problematic. I've also had several friends who owned Eclipses and all of them had major problems. I guess the idea of a cheap fast car is just too good to be true.
Eclipse turbo models are all known for their poor reliability... but you bought one that had already been "ragged on"? Why?
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