I first noticed that my 2006 mitsubishi lancer evolution rs started to make a grinding/scrapping noise that seemed to be generating from the timing belt area when my car had approximately 35,000 miles on the odometer. It seemed to be a noise that was present at idle and upon cold start ups and now occasionally I hear it even when the car is fully warmed up. I started to research this on various forums and internet, only to find that it was a common problem with a clear solution. There have been a few dealerships who have seemed to have resolved this issue but each fix seemed to vary within the timing belt area. The timing belt, sensor blade, tensioner, tensioner pulleys, etc. Have been known to cause this issue. This car is my daily driver and about 90% of the times my kids are in this car with me. It would be terrible if my engine breaks down on me while driving around with my kids in the car. This can be a dangerous problem. I urge mitsubishi to strongly consider a recall for this. With such an amazing car I would hope mitsubishi would standby it and do the right thing!
2006 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution engine complaints
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I first noticed that my 2006 mitsubishi lancer evolution rs started to make a grinding/scrapping noise that seemed to be generating from the timing belt area. The car had approximately 18,000 miles on the odometer. It seemed to be a noise that was present at idle and upon cold start ups. I started to research this on various forums and internet, only to find that it was a common problem with a clear solution. There have been a few dealerships who have seemed to have resolved this issue but each fix seemed to vary within the timing belt area. The timing belt, sensor blade, tensioner, tensioner pulleys, etc. Have been known to cause this issue. I drove my car 3.5 hrs to an outstanding mitsubishi dealership which could not diagnosis my problem. It appears that the drive made whatever it was go away for the moment. This scares me! This car is my daily driver and about 90% of the times my kids are in this car with me. It would be terrible if my engine breaks down on me while driving around with my kids in the car. This can be a dangerous problem. I urge mitsubishi to strongly consider a recall for this. With such an amazing car I would hope mitsubishi would standby it and do the right thing!
I 1st started hearing a metal scraping noise coming from the drive belt area around 20,000 miles on the odometer of my 2006 mitsubishi lancer evolution ix mr. After researching this online, I found this to be a common/frequent problem reported by many other owners of the same car throughout the web. In fact, I even found a youtube clip of the exact same noise created for the exact same issue. The noise has been determined to be involving the timing belt rubbing against the crankshaft blade. I've only found it to only be audible at idle, so it makes sense that it's some sort of timing belt tension issue. Some dealerships are resolving this issue by replacing the timing belt, crankshaft blade, timing belt tensioner, and sometimes even the idler pulley. My local dealership denied my warranty repair claim to get the metal scraping noise issue fixed, and charged me $140 to spray engine degreaser on undressed accessory belts, claiming that the accessory belts were overdressed and that is what caused the noise. Unfortunately, my car is still making the same noise, which I am certain is being caused by the same timing belt/crankshaft blade issue. My only concern is that the timing belt will at some point in the future fail due to the obvious rubbing/contact that is occurring with the crankshaft blade, so I would like to get this fixed before that happens. Glendale mitsubishi in glendale, ca is aware of the problem, and acknowledged that it's a common issue, but was not willing to discuss it with my local dealership, stating that my local dealership should contact the mitsubishi tech line instead. I believe this to be a very common problem with the 2006 lancer evolutions, and firmly believe that mitsubishi should be responsible for issuing a service bulletin to get this resolved.
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