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!
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