One kid's bad experience

[Spyderman96]

Look at this story I found of some kid and his bad experience with my car

I hope you have towing benefits!
May 06 '00

Author's Product Rating
1 out of 5 stars

Reliability: 2 out of 5 stars
Seat Comfort: 2 out of 5 stars
Quality and Craftsmanship: 1 out of 5 stars
Handling And Control: 2 out of 5 stars

Pros
nice convertible if it works

Cons
piece of total garbage


Full Review
I was so excited to get my Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GS convertible. I bought a 1996 model, black with a black top, chrome rims,the works. It was a beauty! I drove it all around town, proud of my new baby. About two months after I bought this dream car, the nightmare began.
Incident #1-I was driving in Los Angeles in a not so great neighborhood and all of a sudden the car started making a strange noise. Next thing I new, oil was leaking everywhere and I needed a brand new engine. The service department had just serviced the car, so I know that it was nothing that I could have caused. They, however,put up a fight and until I could produce a receipt validating my servicing, they would not fix it under warranty. The funny thing was that I got the service done at this dealership! It's a good thing I keep receipts. They then fixed the problem. A few months went by and I had no problems.
Incident #2-Once again, driving in Los Angeles on the busy 5 Freeway something didn't sound right. For weeks, a humming sound was coming from the engine. That was the day the car could take no more. About five minutes after I began driving, we heard a big crash and the car progressively stopped driving. It felt like the whole bottom of the car was falling out. Well, we got towed to the nearest dealership at 10:00 p.m.. The dealership was still open and we dumped the car there. We were informed that they would take a look at it in the morning. Nevertheless we were 90 miles from our San Diego home and needed a rental car. Boy was the dealership nasty and uncooperative. They have a rental department there, but a salesman told us, sorry, they are closed. Ok, well how about giving us a ride to the nearest car rental place? Sorry, we can't do that. Ok, how about a phone book so we can call a cab? Sorry, we don't have one! Great Service! At midnight, we walked to a gas station that called us a cab. The next morning I got a call. My entire transmission blew. I needed a whole new transmission and undercarraige. The service representative said that the transmission grenaded under the car and we were lucky to be alive. They would fix the problem, if I could once again produce proof that the car had been serviced properly. Well, of course I had the receipt. They fixed the $6000 problem 3 weeks later.
After two major catastrophes in less than a year, I hated this car. As time progressed, it shook uncontrollably. It made awful squeaking noises. The top wouldn't go down. When you got it down it wouldn't go back up. This car was a nightmare.
We even tried to go through the Lemon Law. The Mitsubishi attorney told us to sue them. It wasn't worth the hassle.
This is a piece of garbage. DO NOT BUY THIS CAR. I had nothing but problems with it. Unless you like throwing money in the garbage, stay away. Now I have an Infiniti QX4 and what a difference. Service is excellent and I haven't had a problem yet. Good Luck!



Recommended
Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 27,000
Condition: New
Model Year: 96
Model and Options: GS, automatic, chrome package

[spyderturbo007]

Originally Posted by Spyderman96

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Recommended
Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 27,000
Condition: New
Model Year: 96
Model and Options: GS, automatic, chrome package

If this guy hated this car so much why did he recommend the car to others . I love mine!! Yeah so the top leaks every once in a while, other than that I have had no problems with the car!

[Spyderman96]

That's what I was wondering

I have some minor leaks but no biggy.. My car rides fine and it has 117k miles..and im about to put some turbo baby...

[george536]

i really dont think it is. well i hope not cuz i plan to get one soon.

[guitarXgeek]

Kinda sounds like the two "incidents" were caused by his dumbass either A.) Ragging the fuck out of the car, or B.) Not even bothering to check his fluids (hence the tranny exploding). I'm sure there's a horror story like this for every single car out there on the road, and it's usually driver-error.

[helliviknow]

seriously this is prolly one of those kids that thinks neutral droppin is a normal driving condition or some shit... i bet he took it to the rev limiter multiple times tryin to manual shift or ome shiz to blow the engine and blew the tranny neutral droppin it... just my best guess...

[BoostedSpyder]

i love my car.

here is a song to the spyder:

when i got the top up, my car is a bit squeaky,

when i got the top up, my car is pretty leaky.

when i got the top down and i hit the gas,

the turbo kinda lags.

when i got the top down and i hit the brakes,

it stops with a shake.

but when i got the top down and hit full boost in second gear,

girls clothes amazingly fly off.

i love my car.

[guitarXgeek]

Originally Posted by BoostedSpyder

i love my car.

here is a song to the spyder:

my car is a bit squeaky,

my car is pretty leaky.

when i hit the gas,

the turbo kinda lags.

when i hit the brakes,

it stops with a shake.

but when i hit full boost in second gear,

girls clothes amazingly fly off.

Ode To The Spyder, it shall be called! And even though the last two lines don't rhyme, they sure are true

[BoostedSpyder]

i actually just updated it to be more 'spyder' oriented...

[Shpyder]

damn, cars dont just "stop working" like that, it mustve been thru a lot to end up like that. these are tuff little critters, maybe the dumb ass bought an america le-sabre convertible and thought it was an eclipse. lol.

[96spyderman]

Originally Posted by Shpyder

damn, cars dont just "stop working" like that, it mustve been thru a lot to end up like that.

I fully agree... A car is only as good as how ya take care of it...
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