Thread: Just bought a new hunting wagon.

Originally Posted by Carbine

pajero io fits the bill
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/c...ing/5253553872

HA... had that one in my watchlist all week, contemplating continually.

its that or a may 7 tax bill. But yeh perfect, and not to spendy.

Originally Posted by trapperjohn

HA... had that one in my watchlist all week, contemplating continually.

its that or a may 7 tax bill. But yeh perfect, and not to spendy.

haha ird are pretty good can always just pay off the tax bill over time

Originally Posted by Carbine

pajero io fits the bill
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/c...ing/5253553872

I wouldn’t touch a GDI Mitsi of that vintage.

And the other question for me with the Io's is parts availability. That model was not a NZ-new from my understanding, so for some parts you might be having to import and for a 4wd vehicle that might be subject to the occasional whoops that's a worry. Also if you get dinged in a carpark or whatever, it could conceivably write the thing off just due to shipping.

Originally Posted by dvk-kp

I wouldn’t touch a GDI Mitsi of that vintage.

i dont think all gdi's are the same i know the 6g74 is as shitbox in thw sisters pajero is playing up with fuel issues due to the microfilters i fixed it once told her to sell it she didnt listen now its a non runner and dropped 8000$ in value as a result so thats what you get with them the older ones dont seem to have the issues her's did because of a different generation on engine

Originally Posted by dvk-kp

I wouldn’t touch a GDI Mitsi of that vintage.

Good advice, just googled likely issues...
seems there will be a series of issues, one after the other. So yeh nah.

I'm still trying to nail down exactly what it is with the GDI engines that gets them such a bad rep - mechanic I asked reckoned that the direct injection side of it means that the upper cylinder and intake valves don't get fuel over them and that means they get covered in crap from the EGR and PCV setups. I asked him if blocking the EGR and emissions stuff off fixes the issues and he changed the topic to Mitsi diesels...

Another guy who works with the things was going on about the fuel pump and injectors crapping out due to shit fuel, I asked him if that's the main issue and if that's the case if fitting a 1micron supplementary fuel filter would help. He started going on about the new 2L Ford wet belt engines being a load of crap - not really helpful.

I was chatting to a guy with an early 2000's Paj and his one had to have a lot of work on the bottom end of the engine so I asked him what he thought. He reckoned his was a failed bottom end bearing, but had no idea why as it was being serviced by a dealer and everything else was apparently fine. He reckoned he wasn't towing with it and was mostly doing open road driving and longer trips so shouldn't have been anything to do with that.

So I don't really know - without being able to pin that on something other than crap fuel and the effects of that on the fuel system which a lot of different designs are affected by in some way I think it's a bit of an urban legend thing. A bit like the PX Rangers and BT50's being really prone to blowing up where in reality for the numbers of them on the road the stats are not out of line with anything else in terms of failures.

I am wondering if what we did on the older LPG engines would help with the gunking up issues by dosing upper cylinder lubricant into the system by vacuum dosing direct into the manifold. Morey used to do a dosing kit for their upper cylinder lubricant - I think they call it a Power Booster kit or somesuch...

Why to all the shit things to look out for in a car have 3 letters

A mechanic I know says that GDI stands for "Guaranteed Dealer Income"

Originally Posted by blip

Why to all the shit things to look out for in a car have 3 letters

Ha, yep! Although a couple of makers don't abbreviate and just use the whole word to describe their nightmares. Also, I don't think I'd be without SRS, ABS and ALH now to be fair.

Originally Posted by No good names left

I've had 3 used CVT cars (shopping baskets) now, between them I have personally driven over 400,000km and they did a total of 670,000km. I'm a bit of a rough bugger behind the wheel but all the CVTs all held up well. They wouldn't like shock loads like river rocks as Trout said.

I have heard the CVT's now are a lot better than the earlier ones. The manufacturers had to up there game because of the problems. Who knows.