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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge about these cars, 3dplane.
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No problem! Thanks to you for running these great sites! I learned a lot from them and of course the smart people that post on them!
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Originally Posted by Hockeynut
With this scheduled repair I am relegated to driving my 97 4x4 Suburban to work..Grrr..All 15 mpg.
3dplane was the rear axle a Mits fix or something you did?
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Unfortunately something I had to do. In the beginning I did not push for a replacement axle because I KNEW I would get an equally bad replacement based on all the alignment readings I personally seen on several Mirages.
(not one good one to be seen).
I was naive thinking mitsubishi will later take care of the issue (when they come out with good axles)but discovered that they will deny all faults like their life depended on it.
Long story short, after several different approaches of temporary correction of rear axle alignments,I had to put an acetylene torch to it and bend the axle that way to get a permanent correction. Even that took several sessions to get it right. And I have access to an alignment machine so I do not recommend my fix to someone who does not.
Today's example of a Mirage complaint at work was "vibration and whistle noise at 80+ MPH".
Went on a test drive with the Mitsu tech to see if we can duplicate it.
Fastest we got it up to was just over 70 MPH and no vibration or whistle.
The Mirage was wrecked in the front where the fender was bulging out around the headlight so we thought maybe at 80+MPH the air rushes in between the two and possibly whistle but guess what? We are not going to find out. Slow the F down! That would be a typical Mirage complaint around here.