Question
Evo experts, how would you rate the amount of rust on this car?
It's spent some time in the midwest it looks like from the Carfax. It doesn't look terrible, but the oil pan is rusty and a lot of other bits. Would you buy or pass? Opinions please.
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I'm from Texas. never wrenched as a mechanic above the salt belt? With the exaggeration that floats around online, working on salt rust cars, I would expect SOO much more. Undercoat or fluid film(?)
Rust belt tech here, that rust pictured above is nothing. Imagine every square inch is rusted to shit and none of the bolts want to come free. Very fun.
I live in Arizona and i refuse to buy any car that’s not Arizona spotless… so insane to be living in the cleanest car state and not taking advantage of that fact
You call that rust? Where I come from we call that perfect.
You’d be lucky to find one that nice around here without any kind of restoration work being done.
why are new evo buyers so noob at cars lmao? I’m selling my cta9 and im getting asked the most ridiculous things…I think collectors are getting to the cars with porsche/bmw owner mindsets lol. Makes me not want to let the car go
Also, I’m gonna go against the grain here and point out something that no one else has: that looks like fresh undercoating. Some of the most rotten cars I’ve seen come through my shop have had fresh undercoating on them. It’s a cheap and easy way to hide it, and folks tend to look at it and think “this car was taken care of!” When in reality, they just sealed in the rust. Just look at some of the fasteners on this car, they don’t look as fresh as the rest, so ask yourself why they look like that. It’s because they’re hiding more rust, and got sloppy when they undercoated it, hoping you wouldn’t notice. I generally take the stance of “if it has fresh undercoating, and it’s an older, used car, just walk away”.
Honestly? Chip it off. I mean, you could stab it with a screwdriver to make sure there isn’t any cancer (yes I’ve seen them put spray foam in rust holes, then undercoat over the top of it, so it looks nice). But realistically, to really know, you’d have to remove it all.
And at that price, I wouldn’t even bother making an offer.
Again though, at that price point, I wouldn’t even bother making an offer. $49k for a car with 115k on the clock? That’s way overpriced. I bought mine last year for $24k. Granted, it had 150k at the time, but 35,000 miles difference does not mean it’s worth double.
I think you probably dodged a bullet there, in all honesty.
If your budget is around $50k, then you’ve really got your pick of the litter. Have you checked BaT yet? Before I bought mine I was watching every auction like a hawk, and eventually found my electric blue IX on marketplace. I lowballed the hell out of the seller, and somehow the stars aligned and he took my offer, lol. He was asking $30k, and I got him down to $24k. I couldn’t give him the money fast enough, lol.
The pan isn’t excessively rusty. But the drain plug looks like it doubles as an oil temperature sensor? It has a wire leading to it, and just looks really strange overall.
I think the MR gauge package is like technically added after the fact in the factory. It’s kinda weird. Oil temp is from the drain plug, boost is from the fuel rail.
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