It's a foking DSM afterall!

[scheides]

So the common thread with all things evo related is that they are reliable, powerful, and streetable. That's how I always have felt, it's an evolution of what dsm's were. Where they failed, the newer evos strive, blah blah blah. No I didn't mean to preach it or really really heartfully mean it because the newest dsm is 4 years older than the oldest evo (USDM).

I lost a little faith in my evo recently, and really it's just the icing on the cake of shit that's happened with it recently. I am *never* nice to the car. It gets driven 40-100 miles per day, several hundred miles per week, and over a thousand miles per month. I'm playing with E85, alky, pushing the tune, blah blah blah so really some of this stuff comes as no surprise. Water pump leaking, check. Timing belt tensioner on backwards, check (all me). Headgasket, check. Water pump freeze plug blowing out on xmas day, in front of 2 members and later 20+ members of my family, check. Weird-ass electrical gremlins popping up out of nowhere, check-check-WHAT?

That's right, go mitsubishi. There's a seal that goes through the fender that leaks. No recall, nor a TSB (that I've found). Yet water leaks in, dripps down onto the main wiring harness and its 6 big plugs, and then goes ahead and corrodes the living fuck out of them.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, I can't believe I had to do this to my *2005* evo. It's still fucking new to me. Soldering to follow.





Screwdriver points to the faulty seal thingy:








It's winter in MN, water gets everywhere! EVERYWHERE!

[scheides]

ps--my car has 63000 miles on it. Not that mitsu would do anything about this anyways.

[MustGoFaster]

But dude, EVO's are awesome and never break. But it's not a DSM, it a fuking EVO. I've know that since 2003. John's dad's car had this issue it's SECOND winter. I would have figured there would be a HUGE sticky on EvoM by now, guess not. Go make one and save some other guy some trouble.

P.S. If your having these issues now, what will happen when it's 10-19 years old like DSM's are?

P.P.S. Support the economy, go buy a GM, Ford or Chrysler.
Oh wait, I have a GM and lower intake manifold gaskets fail, on a motor that's been in production for 5 YEARS. Every car company has their fuk ups, enjoy.

[311evo]

Damn man!! You havent had very much luck/love from the evo recently, sorry to hear..

Im going to seal the shit out of that hole..

[awd-drifter]

wow! thats a crapper. im guessing in the next 7-13 more years, the Evo's will be the new DSMs...ugh. good luck man, what specifically went wrong though? did CEL start popping up? did you get shocked? lol.

[Goat Blower]

Scheides, I'll trade you straight up for a nice reliable DSM.

[FattyBoomBatty]

I'll trade you a conquest

[Super Bleeder!!]

Jeezuz, that is shitty. Props to you for doing something about it. Im all thumbs when it comes to electrical systems.

[scheides]

Originally Posted by Super Bleeder!!

Jeezuz, that is shitty. Props to you for doing something about it. Im all thumbs when it comes to electrical systems.

Sadly, it is not far off from the dealer's warranty fix:


This was posted by a dealer mechanic on evoM. Unfuking real. If you own an evo, fix this now before its too late!

[rose0529]

I'm gonna have to make sure mine is sealing good, maybe while my car is getting some other work done

Thats sad the dealer didn't put a new connector in it!

[iceminion]

I drive my DSM every day to work, The only trouble I have ever had with a DSM falls under two categories:

-Normal Driveline Failures (clutch, synchros, rotting bushings)
-Rubber age/heat exposure related leaks
-Failures by myself to properly service the vehicle (letting a bolt fall into the exhaust port)

To be quite honest, for what I do to my car every day, my car is extremely reliable.

I put 70 miles on my DSM every day, I average one hard launch a day (AWD clutch dump)

I have no towing/AAA service.

Sorry about the electrical issues, mitsu is pretty good when it comes to this normaly.

[Matt D.]

I think we're fairly lucky with the electrical reliability of our cars. At least we aren't plagued with the issues that Audis/VWs experience.

[brando]

this sucks to hear that it happened but if i were you i would put some silicon on thise connections. it will help the connection and prevent corrosion

[1QUICK4]

Grommets in the inner fender well FTL. I fixed that issue on a couple of Lancers and Evos back in the day when I worked at Mitsu. The reason they don't install a new harness is that it's not available without getting an entire chassis harness or engine harness and it will happen again over time.

If I was you I'd seal that whole grommet area up under the splash shield with silicone.

[scheides]

I'm thinking of just doing it from the inside. Is there any reason to tear the fender liner apart to do it from that side?

Here's what it looks like from the inside:


And the outside:


I'm thinking of just using some silicone to fill the holes from the inside, since I can now reach up there easily with my dash all torn apart.

[1QUICK4]

Considering it takes all of 5 minutes to remove the splash shield I'd do inside and outside if it was mine.

[Halon]

But wait, I though a car is only as reliable as the person that takes care of it. If you would just take care of your car properly it wouldn't be so unreliable...

[scheides]

Right, I should have thought to check for moisture inside the cabin, on the backside of a huge rats-nest of wiring, on a car that's only a few years old.....what was I thinking? :P

[Halon]

Originally Posted by scheides

Right, I should have thought to check for moisture inside the cabin, on the backside of a huge rats-nest of wiring, on a car that's only a few years old.....what was I thinking? :P

Exactly. Hence the reason I get sick of hearing the same dumb comment when mine or anyones DSM is down. Shit happens.

[turbotalon1g]

LOL.
Sorry to hear, it sounds completely messed up, IMO a design flaw that they should cover at least partly.
Anywho, way to post it up and help save some others.
Also I would take Hill's trade. maybe.