Rogelio Chavarin I bought mine with only a muffler delete and K&N drop-in filter (doesn't really do anything) with a free Accessport. It's as close to stock as you'll find haha
tbh i actually recommend going to a dealership because you'll run in to the exact same issues buying private. you just have to know your stuff before buying a used car and you should be able to tell very easily if its been modified in the past. Dealerships are also much easier to low ball with your your money because they tend to buy them super cheap and they dont usually have emotional attachments to the car.
I disagree I got my evo from a dealership and a month after I saw countless of good deals on evos through private sales on group pages. Buying private can save you up to 10 grand, not only that but you can get a real feel how the previous owner took care of the vehicle just by talking to them. Dealer salesmen and porters are already enough for me to not buy another evo from a dealership.
How the hell you don't have 100,000 subscribers yet, i swear youtubers like you are underestimated too much, you present such solid content in your videos, and when i see other car youtubers who don't even come close to half of your videos, have more subscribers, makes me sick. Hope you reach 100k subscribers soon, keep up the videos.
Mr _skyserious - I barely subscribed and literally told myself how in the hell did I not find CZero's channel a long time ago, because you are right about his videos.👍
I just bought my ALMOST stock Evo IX w/27k miles on it just under 3 months ago. Some other items to note: 1. Evo 9's specifically are big time going up in price. 8's are as well but not nearly at the same rate as 9's (or at least that was the case 3 months ago). 10's seem to dwindle in pricing. 2. Check fenders, engine, tranny, doors, etc for matching VIN tags. 3. I would not immediately dismiss all dealers/used car places (or anybody that is not a private sale). I bought mine from a used car dealer in Florida (I live in Ohio) who has personally owned 3 Evos in the past. He definitely knew his stuff and what to look for. I know this is not the typical scenario but I guess I am just making note that the sometimes this can be taken on a case by case basis. 4. Get a CARFAX! Do this if you are seriously looking at a particular Evo. Don't necessarily do this for any/all Evo's that you are just glancing at obviously. There are a couple guys on the forums that actually bought Evo's with salvage titles without knowing... For some reason I am drawing a blank at the moment, I thought I had more to add.. Will edit if I remember more.
I really appreciate this video. I used the info in this to buy my evo x about two months ago. Came back to this video to leave a comment. I actually did buy from a dealer but they are a specialized performance car dealership in NC. They introduced me to the previous owner and I got full info on all the mods. The owner had ams do most of the most of the mods and the tune. I have all the paperwork on everything ever done to the car and the dyno sheet. I took about eight days to make a decision and I am really glad I got it. It has been awesome. I have had zero problems. The evo is in awesome condition and drives as smooth as a stock car but with more power. It's at 400 crank. With everything done to it professionally, it made a big difference. The owner traded it in to get a Porsche. We've become friends which has been really cool. So I got really lucky. My husband drives a modded s197 mustang gt/cs at about 500whp with a pro charger and bolt ons. So now we get to race each other and it's so awesome. Thanks for the tips. It helped me make the right decision and I'm so happy I pulled the trigger.
This Video was done really well, and a lot of these things are stuff you should look for no matter what your buying, i appreciate you being extremely thorough
What a great video, regardless of whether or not you're looking at an EVO. This is solid advice when coming to an agreement with any car. You're very in-tune with cars which isn't very common amongst "enthusiasts".
Sorry for late reply but not really, the cars pretty damn reliable. ive owned mine for nearly 6 ish months now as a daily from school and to work, not a single problem besides the oem radio that i replaced within 3 days. Id Recommend just be prepared for the shitty mpg lol.
You're right dealers can be sketchy, I was once looking at a Subaru STI and it had a black top mount intercooler and it was actually smaller than oem intercooler. The dealership also assured me that it was "stock" lol.
I bought my evo from an evo specialist all they had was evo's and skylines in the UK. I would not say all dealerships are clueless but i get what your saying.
Check the evap area. like the fuel filler neck and the box behind it If its an older car with mileage, there is a 90% chance it will have evap emissions problems
Something to note: A stock rear differential will make a sound similar to a death whine when upgrading to urethane energy suspension bushings. I have experienced this and so have many other Evo owners.
great use of a video great way of advertising and reviewing this specific evo. and or any evo. what a great build definitely build quality definitely would be worth the value witch presented
I'm looking to buy an evo V... Thanks for the video.. I know I will eventually end up spending a lot of money on it for repairs and maintenance, but this is for me a dream since 2005 and now I can afford it.....
I was in a local performance shop, watching them pull a crazy large turbo off of an evo and swap it back to stock so a mitsubishi dealership could sell it. Good call on the "stanced" lookout. If you want a stanced car then buying one already done is fine, just make sure the under carriage looks good. I don't personally like the stanced setups nor could I drive one where I live, but if your in cali or somehwere you dont get winter its probably not such a big deal.
This video was very well put together and had many valid points. However, I would not recommend flooring it at 2,500 rpms. That is called lugging the motor. It strains the motor and causes carbon deposits that are lodged in the cylinders to come loose. This can damage the motor quite severely. If you want to test the clutch, pull the E-Brake and release the clutch in second gear. If the car doesn't stall, it needs a clutch. Other than that, great vid!
So what your going to want to do with with the lock nut you broke is find a socket that's just fits tight over the lug nut pound it on with a hammer and it should come off. Had that happen once and that worked for me
I brought an evo but not from the dealership. I brought one from an online auction I had to repair it quite a bit because the last person neglected it. Man these vehicles can be expensive if your not careful. Never go with Shep to rebuild any diff or section of the evo they will rip you off. I went mainly with Jacks-transmission they are pretty cool.
I got my evo 8 from a dealer and yea it's a dealership but i had 2 mechanics check it out first and the price was right for me personally. i've never gone the dealership rout but this one worked out. we tested everything czero talks about here and i got very lucky. they said it was "stock" but it looks like they had a downpipe on at some point and when we went to tune the car it had a locked high octane euro tune of some kind on it which took us a week to retune (completely new custom map was written). so dealers will charge you more but if you take the right steps while buying you can get a pretty good deal. my evo literally looks garaged as far as aesthetics go and runs like a champ.
From personal experience after being burnt, check all gears work properly, if it is a jdm 6 speed converted to a 5 speed, reverse is below 5th, not to the side like I thought mine was, it was stupid, but I didnt really know about 5 speeds, since imported evos take up 98 percent of our evo market... umm other than that, I suppose just be skeptical in general, get it looked over first, everything can be fixed for a price, its up to you to determine how reasonable the asking price is.
He is right, I work at a private dealership. Cars are trashed when they come in. The full time interior detailer power washer the doors, everything. Problem and more problems. I do love the job though but one thing for sure don't buy from private dealers, especially if you buy the retail instead of the "as is" pieces you will just regret it. I'm currently in the process of buying a car from this place but do your homework and don't be afraid to walk out empty handed.
Unfortunately i bought my evo 8 from a dealership. When i searched listings for '03-06 evo within a 500 mile radius i only found 2. One was from a private seller and it was alot cheaper but it was salvage title, needed a new turbo, and it needed a new clutch. The evo i got from the dealer had less miles and was well maintained and plus it had the carfax to prove it. I been wanting an '03-06 evo for 3 years and considering how much their prices keeps going up i felt that i had no choice but to pull the trigger. Im paying an extra 5k in dealer taxes and APR but its worth it to me. Its one of my dream cars and im happy just to have it. EDIT: the evo i bought was also fairly stock. Has an ecu tune and aftermarket intercooler.
The reason that I love Evos is because of how rare they are and not every body has one, unlike the wrx sti owners. If the wrx was rare then I would like that, (I'm disgusted in myself for saying that I would like an sti) but overall, I would rather choose an evo IX because of the "stronger" engine and how much you can upgrade it, and how mean it looks!
Very informal. I remember seeing a silver evo 9 for sale at a dealership for 23k and said was stock. Got in the car's driver seat and saw a wire hanging underneath the dashboard.
Been in the same game, when you modifiy a car you lose the oem value . That is because you mess up with the reliability ,mpg,cold starts,many parts that maybe would handle the extra hp ,but never will be at factory level. Don't listen to what tuners say, they never want stock cars with no problems. Many many problems regarding ecu mapped ,running to rich or to lean, this messing you sensors and dumping fuel like a jet plane. After my Evo 9 remap mpg got from 28 to 14 when not wot,when wot from 25 mpg to 6.
Very very useful video. Thank you so much! I'm looking to buy an Evo X as soon as I'm done with my schooling, but didn't know quite what to look for. This definitely gave me a better understanding.
Bought mine from a small dealer. I knew who sold it prior to me going to the dealer. Also knew the tuner and the builder of the Evo. Paid a little bit above what NADA ($1000 over). Reason why I had to buy it from the dealer was because the private seller sold it to the dealer before I got my financing done. I guess I got lucky.
Here in Finland I prefer buying my cars from the dealerships they actually have some oblications after you buy the car from them. Bought my evo 9 about a year ago and two weeks after that my timing belt broke about 40 000km before I should have replaced it. Of course the bill was huge, eventhough it did not do too much damage to the motor, and the dealership had to pay the whole bill. Okey, there was some other issues with the car because the last owner did some crappy work with the care, espicially the tune was done horribly. Luckily those were easy to fix expect that tune which I couldn't do myself.
My dream car is a stock or slight bolt on evo 8/9, so I appreciate these kinds of videos a lot man. I'm waiting for your next vid where you'll go over if someone should buy a stock/bolt on/or heavily modified evo since a lot of evos that you see on craigslist etc have lots of mods, and that's a big turn off for me personally since I'm a stock guy.
I got my evo, it had a compression problem. I didn't know that, but it turns out it was carbon build up in one of the valves. Not a huge deal but I wish knew that. Got a good deal tho. Full bolt ons evo x for 15k
Well I got my '13 Mazdaspeed3 from a dealer and it's been good to me since. Most people don't have 20/30k to drop so I think that's why dealerships are handy
One would think the previous owner would take the radiator out to ensure the turbo swap won't damage it, at least I would, but not everyone are as particular about things.
Im good with the ej205s.... The amount of money these evos cost is absolutely insane sometimes. An evo 8 i often find it for 20k when a wrx from 2004 is 5500....
Can I talk about brands and dealers real quick. My brother owns a WRX, and I decided to go to Subie Fest with him. When we arrived they were promoting parts over there like COBB and other things that CLEARLY WOULD VOID YOUR WARRENTY IF YOU PUT IT ON YOUR CAR. Even though these guys were promoting them at their own car fest. I have heard that this also happens at MOD. I haven't been to MOD but I just got my Evo X GSR last month so im hoping to go next time.
As far as the subframe rusting out, there's currently a safety recall/campaign for the Evo's (and other Mitsu's) to have the subframe replaced for free if it's too corroded due to being registered in a salt belt state. I've seen Evo's where the subframe is rusted to hell and the rest of the car looks good.
I am a victim of buying a bad example of an Evo 9 from a regular dealership. I have had no end of problems even though the car has only 2 owners and 60k on clock. but has being modded to 400bhp. Learned loads about evos and how expensive parts are and how certain mechanics hate working on em. rule number 1 to any1 wanting one is to buy from an enthusiast and check the diff pump and gearbox as these have caused me a 3.600 pound bill.
