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    Evo 4

    do we like them or not?

    pros and cons?


    been offered one cheap (330bhp, white) and can insure it cheap i would have thought (seeing as im only £422 fully comp on the GT3)

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    nope! Unless it has an evo 5/6 engine in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GTBen
    nope! Unless it has an evo 5/6 engine in.
    What makes you say that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GTBen
    nope! Unless it has an evo 5/6 engine in.
    explain....

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    have a search 4 crank walk on http://www.lancerregister.com/home.php

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    was told not to get the evo 4 something to do with engine problems. got the evo 5 but it feels abit like a tank(to me it is its the biggest car ive had so far)

    Likes the fuel to much aswell

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    crank walk!!! Wudnt touch a 4 if it was going cheap,and no wonder u know of one going as such!
    Stear clear unless its had a 5/6 put in it.

    And maintenance aint cheap either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GTBen
    crank walk!!! Wudnt touch a 4 if it was going cheap,and no wonder u know of one going as such!
    Stear clear unless its had a 5/6 put in it.

    And maintenance aint cheap either.
    You can't make a sweeping statement like that. Granted some suffer from crank walk, just like some of the early Subarus are supposed to suffer failure on piston three.

    That doesn't mean that every Evo IV is going to have that problem. My brother has an Evo IV and has had no problems. We recently sold our WRX and never had their supposed inherant fault.

    A lot of it is down to how people look after things. You hit the nail on the head when you said maintainance isn't cheap. That is the main reason they fail, people buy them the realise they can't afford to run them properly.

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    fact is,the 4 engines suffer from crank walk. Its a fact. So i wud get a 5 if u can stretch.

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