Good and Bad
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Good and Bad
1st post. Looking at a 2000 Eclipse RS, auto trans. Car is in decent shape, needs a little body work, windsheild, 4 tires etc. It will be for my 15 year old. 1 owner w/ 65K on the odometer. I'm a GM mechanic andI know nothing about a Mitsubishi. What's the good and the bad. Engine is 4cyl non turbo. Is this an interference engine, when does it need a timing belt. Have heard horror stories about these automatics and needing a loan to fix them. Fill me in, need to know as much as I can to make a purchase, maybe. ValueKBB shows around $2500-$3000. I was thinking around 2k-2500. What's a decent price here in the south east US. Thanks for any help.
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RE: Good and Bad
the engines are very good and very reliable, ive never heard of anyone having any tranny problems with these cars and i know some people make it over 200k miles without any problems. the timing belts usually are changed at 70-75k miles. its a very good car for a first car also easy to work on very straight forward with almost everything on the car. i would probably say around 2500 for the car its low miles but with some body work needed and what not i think it should be around that price range, kbb is usually pretty close on with the prices, i paid about 8k for mine 4 years ago and its now over 100k miles without a single problem yet except a hole in a radiator hose which was the one that came on the car and that was at 90k miles
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