At 72,000 miles I was experiencing issues that had to do with the idling of my car. At stoplights it would die unexpectedly and/or just idle extremely rough as the RPM's would lower. I took it in to get it repaired and it was diagnosed (by mitsubishi) as a timing belt that was stretched. I looked online an found scores of 2008 evo's who have experienced similar issues right around the same timeframe (around 70k miles). Clearly this is a common issue, yet out of warranty by 10k. I also looked online to see if they had yet to modify the replacement timing chain and mitsubishi had manufactured a new timing chain that doesn't have the certain defects as of january 2012. Should this not be a recall item considering that so many of us are experiencing the same issue? Especially considering that a replacement chain had been made to correct these things?
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo transmission complaints
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I took in my mitsubishi lancer evo to local dealer for transmission problem. This car currently has 3,300 miles and I'm having problems in shifting from second gear to third.at times I need to take clutch pedal out two to three times in order for it to engage. Some times transmission will not go into reverse also. Dealer had car for a couple of hours and indicated on their work order that the car had no problems while test driving?
Clutch disk dragging during disengagement, causing hard shifting and prematurely wearing the transmission synchronizers. Multiple complaints brought to mitusibishi, and no fox offered.
The gear shifts are extremely notchy and cause frequent grinding when shifting to gears 2 and 3. It does not matter if I am upshifting or downshifting. The problem is pronounced during cold engine conditions. Grinding continues to happen even in warm conditions. There have been many times when the car lost power and slowed down in the middle of a road because I could not shift in time due to the grinding.
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