I just bought a 1996 Eclipse Spyder Turbo and it is low on oil and am affraid to drive it.... I spent about 2 hours googling, youtubing, I can't find anywhere that tells me where to add the oil?

All the cars I have ever had in the past, 25+ all said "oil" or something like that... totally clueless... can someone tell me or post a picture on where it goes in? What type of oil should I add?

Thanks

Also I bought it knowing the top wasn't working correctly, yesterday, when I bought it, the top went up halfway on it's own, then stopped like it was stuck.. today the motor sounds faint and the top didn't move at all.... any ideas what is wrong and what the cost would be?

Thanks!

 

How about you posting a picture of the top of your engine.....

You are joking, right? You can't find the oil fill cap on the valve cover on the top of the engine? Unless the person put a custom valve cover on that does not have a oil fill cap, but I can't imagine that there would be such an animal out there. Did this car come with an owners manual because it would show where the cap is. Otherwise, the slow way would be to get an appropriately sized hose and put it over the fill tube and the other end, the funnel would go in. It may be slow, but it would work. Just make sure you are adding to the crankcase and not the transmission, if you have an automatic.

As far as the top, years ago the tops were powered by an electrically run hydraulic motor that drove pistons. You could be low on fluid....or ...I am not sure how it works now days but I did fix mine on a 1964 Skylark that had bad seals in the oil pump.

You really need to find on the web, someone who is selling a factory Mitsubishi service manual for your car. If you can't find one, then I'd settle for an aftermarket one but I would seriously try to get a factory manual.