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Mitsubishi Colt

  • 18-05-2006 2:25pm
    #1
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Im thinking of getting one, looking at one this evening.. Any advice?


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  • #2
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    What year?
    They're a solid enough little car. economical enough.

    Are you going after a standard one? Try to avoid one with induction kits/aftermarket exhausts as they really effect MPG on the 1.3's (Any car for that matter)


  • #3
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    JohnCleary wrote:
    What year?
    They're a solid enough little car. economical enough.

    Are you going after a standard one? Try to avoid one with induction kits/aftermarket exhausts as they really effect MPG on the 1.3's (Any car for that matter)

    Its a '00, Can't afford anything younger at the minute.. Rang my insurance company today and it won't be any extra which surprised me as Im changing from a 1L to a 1.3L :)


  • #4
    le-dub
    Closed Accounts Posts: 78 ✭✭le-dub


    I have a 99D Silver colt with just over 30,000miles. Id probably sell it sell it for £5,000 if your interested? PM and let us know....


  • #5
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I've a 1.3L 1998 Mirage (which is basically a Colt in coupe form) and it's never given me any trouble so far. About 35 quid (at current prices) fills it for the week and that's with a daily trip to and from Navan.

    Can't go too far wrong with anything Japanese really.


  • #6
    Tipsy Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭Tipsy Mac


    No electric Windows on the Irish cars, other than that never heard a bad word said about them, nice nippy and relibable cars.


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  • #7
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,446 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Tipsy Mac wrote:
    No electric Windows on the Irish cars, other than that never heard a bad word said about them, nice nippy and relibable cars.

    Yeah saw that when I went to see one last night.. Looked like it had been broken into at some stage as well.. Didn't bother looking at it any further when I saw that... Still on the look out though


  • #8
    Dog Chaser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭Dog Chaser


    le-dub wrote:
    I have a 99D Silver colt with just over 30,000miles. Id probably sell it sell it for £5,000 if your interested? PM and let us know....
    That's way overpriced. Thats about €7200.


  • #9
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    I'd say he meant €5000.


  • #10
    NiSmO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭NiSmO


    This post has been deleted.


  • #11
    JohnCleary
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,209 ✭✭✭✭JohnCleary


    WTF?

    IBTL


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  • #12
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Old thread much NiSmO?


  • #13
    Plug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Nismo is after taking some mitzu's:pac:


  • #14
    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    I have a '98 1.3 gl and it's given me nothing but trouble for the 2 years i've had it.

    I've pumped hundreds of euro into repairing it - distributor cap replacement, new battery, timing belt, 6 sets of spark plugs, new front lamp (of which the new one is still taking in water), and it still gives me trouble.

    that's just me though, my friend had a '94 model for years and never had any trouble with it.


  • #15
    Sqaull20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭Sqaull20


    silvervixen84 wrote: »
    I have a '98 1.3 gl and it's given me nothing but trouble for the 2 years i've had it.

    I've pumped hundreds of euro into repairing it - distributor cap replacement, new battery, timing belt, 6 sets of spark plugs, new front lamp (of which the new one is still taking in water), and it still gives me trouble.

    that's just me though, my friend had a '94 model for years and never had any trouble with it.

    Thats more like maintenance.

    Timing belt, spark plugs and batteries have to be changed in nearly every car at some point, as do light bulbs.


  • #16
    silvervixen84
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    No, it breaks down roughly every 3 months. even at the moment it coughs into action in the mornings, and i just had it looked at this weekend by a mechanic who said the engine is on the way out.

    the car has relatively low mileage for its age and i'm it's 2nd owner.


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