I'm so gutted!!!! :cry:

 

We drove all the way up to North Shields last weekend (some 600mile round trip) to trade in the Mrs. old MX5 for an Evo3.

 

Got home no problems and for the first 2 day we were quite happy, although i knew the evo needed a bit of TLC - oils changing and that sort of thing.

 

Came home from a chineese the other night and she asked me to test and see if it had been delimited so briefly accelerated above the standard japanese speed restricor and confirmed that it had, however as i was slowing i noticed something on the windscreen. Sprayed the windscreen and it smeared. Pulled over to find the dipstick had poped up and oil had gushed all over the engine, up through the vent and onto the bonnet, up the windscreen and allong the roof!! :headvswal

 

I've checked the compreesion in the cylinders and they are fine and equal. It's not smoking but the coolant is being forced out and leaving a vacuum when the engine cools. I'm confused :( I can only assume that it's the head gasket or the rings or both, in anycase, it looks like i'm heading back up to tyneside again this weekend :mad:

 

Just thought i'd share my little moan with you guys, I'm off to get seriously pissed :duffer:

 

Oh and I almost forgot... Told the Mrs to take my car to work when the evo started to play up. She'd never driven the Zed before. She wasn't keen due to it's size, height, high power mated to rear wheel drive.

But.... She loves it!!! Says she preferes driving it to driving the evo! :cool:

 

Maybe if we get our money back we could find her a ZX and have a 2 ZX family :dance:

absolutly no one sells a perfect car mate.

Need to change your Name from DaFox to DaPidgeon

Sorry to hear the Evo's got problems.

Older performance cars often carry a few injuries - hoe you can fix this fairly easily.

Wasn't expecting a perfect car (hell I bought a Z didn't I!!!! not once but 3 times!!!) I was expecting to have to give it a good service and change the cam belts etc just wasn't expecting to have to put a new engine in especially as we paid over top book to get one that wasn't a shit pile. But how was i to know when it wasn't showing any symptoms when we had our test-drive!!???

 

p.s. the MX5 we traded in WAS perfect, despite it's high miles it was mechanically, cosmeticaly flawless, I made damn sure of that cuz it's my job to maintain the cars just like it's her's to cook and clean :x:

Most older performance cars always need something doing to them. Its whether the seller tells you or not that matters! I always ask what they would do to it next , not that they'd tell me if they were hiding anything but it makes me feel better! and if I get a good answer it gives me some idea of how truthfull and knowledgable they are.

Crappola, hope you get it sorted buddy :(

Thanks for the advice, just so much to remember when you go look at a car!! I was expecting to have to do some work on it, Changing shocks and bushes, tracing vacuum leaks, cleaning out the throttle body the usual stuff I enjoy and am used to having to do, but a complete engine overhaul is out of my league. Ii would have expected an evo with only 70k on the clock to have had plenty of life left in it.

The decision to buy this car was made on advice given to me by various people (some on this forum) who suggested that this car would be a safer bet in terms of build quality and reliability than a WRX which we could have got for a lot less. Looks like we've just been unlucky this time.

But i'll be ****ed if i'm gonna absorb the cost of this problem, he's a trader, the car is not fit for purpose/defective the problem is more his than mine.

 

How many miles has the RX done on those rotor tips by the way ;)

i know less than nothing about engines so someone will probably be along in a minute to say why this is completely irrelevant but i had a cavalier a few years ago that had a similar sounding problem. turned out it was just a blocked filter that was causing a back-up of pressure which would eventually lift the dipstick out and spray oil over the engine and causes nice plumes of black smoke to pour out from under the bonnet. mechanic said it was a common problem with high mileage cavaliers and all it needed was a new filter.

 

as i said, probably something completely different to your problem but you never know - there could be a nice, cheap solution

How many miles has the RX done on those rotor tips by the way ;)

 

Lol, 3 thousand ish mate! The state of tune is so high it'll probably need a refresh in a year or so but I was looking for something extreme. I did a probably 7 or 800 odd miles in two days last week in it on John Lyons High Performance Course, all with the engine 'singing' as he puts it at 5k rpm. It didn't get remotely hot which is a really good sign on these engines. The race rad and charge cooler are a great setup. Lots of people stack a big front mount intercooler in front of the rad ( as they do on the Zed) which is a bit stupid IMO.

The six month rule:

 

Buy a used car from a dealer and if it goes wrong during your first six months of ownership they have to repair the fault or prove it wasn’t there when they sold the car.

 

It’s a comparatively recent law (the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumer Regulations 2002). Not all traders are aware of it so you may have an awkward time explaining it to them - but it's worth doing.

Wanted an RX so bad i could have puked about 6 months ago but unfortunately couldn't get the money together to get a decent enough one. That's one car I would not like to end up having a lemon version (no reference to colour intended there I quite like them in yellow!) Had to settle for the trusty Zed... ...for now :)

Know what you mean mate, its a bit like the zed market though. People are having trouble selling them so there's some bargains out there. A good one is still double the price of a good zed though :( . They are very uncompromising, pure sports car. Mines unbearably loud, I think I'm going to fit the exhaust baffle I've got and leave it on all the time to see if it makes it more comfortable. My head was spinning when I got back last week.

Swap you a sorted zed and a dead evo? lmao

Lol, I'm trying to sell a sorted Zed myself!