Sorry I will not pull any parts off of this car to sell!

 

Price drop to $4500!!

I will be driving this up to the shootout!! If someone wants it there I will have the title in hand and I have already arranged a ride home .

 

No bites even at the shootout

Willing to wheel and deal with this! I want my car back together.

 

My g/f saw this car at the shootout and begged me to buy it for her. It is the 2g color combo that she really likes sice they don't come in pink. I get a nice size check in about a month that I promised to use part of to buy her a car. Maybe if you still have it and she hasn't changed her mind AGAIN I'll fly out and buy it for her.

 

Needs the two brackets replaced that connect to the floating rib in the top. I'll probably end up replacing them soon.

Are you aware that an ebay seller has inexpensive retrofit parts (a set for both sides is currently $75) that fix the "floating rib" problem? (the piss-poor OEM Mitsubishi design uses elastic straps) It's the first thing that I fixed on my Spyder when I bought it in '07. You get new brackets with attached wire cable instead of elastic.

Search for "MITSUBISHI ECLIPSE CONVERTIBLE TOP REPAIR KIT 1996-99".

I am NOT affiliated in ANY way w/ this seller, just a happy customer.

Note that there is ANOTHER failure mode for these cloth tops (other than the lift motor shear pin and the floating rib stabilizer). There is a cast aluminum "helper bar" that acts to form a parallelogram linkage in the top mechanism. The top will power retract without it (helped by gravity), but will not power back up. I just replaced the RH top link on my Spyder. The OEM parts originally cost over $320 APIECE and are scarcer than hen's teeth to find now that they are out of production. Had to pay $140 for a USED part (RH side is harder to locate). The same seller is selling the LH part for about $113 right now on ebay.

1996-99 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder Top Link Assembly RH MR264596
1996-99 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder Top Link Assembly LH MR264595

Article on top issues: http://www.novaslp.net/cgi-bin/mainSite.pl?function=projects&view=2geclipse-top

 

Thank you for the information. I knew about the new arms I am just holding out on spending more money on this car.

I'd love to buy a new top for it but I would rather spend money on the drag car.


I also buffed this bad boy out tonight. Sure does look pretty and would look amazing in someone else's driveway! I'll have pictures once the sun comes up and I can get out the good camera.

 

Installed a new TOB the other night. Car is now over 161,000 miles!! I've put over 6k miles on the car since I got it running.

 

Dude I love this car for some reason lol. Too bad the mileage is so high. Good luck.

 

Will you take one dollar of money for a clean, solid car?

 

Lets get this straight... Exactly HOW many monies will it take, to get this car off your hands, tonight.

 

If you are serious message me with what you are working with.


Made another trip this weekend. 162,xxx miles


Not sure why someone does not want a reliable clean 2g! :dunno:


:chair:

 

Mileage on the body is high but there is only 6,000 miles on the engine now.

 

I too saw this car at the shoot-out and can vouch for how nice it is. I kinda wish I would have introduced myself now.

 

Should have!

It wasn't even washed there and still looked good.

 

I was on the look-out for other spyder owners.

 

Damn I just recently got my wife on board with the idea of my getting a Spyder. If we weren't in the middle of buying a house (close next Wednesday) I'd def take this off your hands.

GLWTS either way! Someone needs to take this and keep it as clean is you made it.

 

Just did rear brakes and ceramic front pads. Also a fresh oil change. The car was suppose to sell on sunday but the person backed out...........

Make a decent offer and it's gone.

Still sitting at $4,000 OBO

 

My top isn't coming down evenly on one side, so glad I found this post. Ill be investigating and fixing the issue around spring when Buschur is done with my baby.

 

Buy it before christmas and I'll make it a damn good deal....

 

Traded for a 97awd talon. Close this shit up!! Finally...

 

I stopped the trade. Had the "MINT" shell with parts looked at and it was all junk.

Car has 165117 Miles on it right now. I continue to drive this thing on long trips and still have yet to run into any issues. Thing fires up and drives anytime and goes any distance.

Only issue I would fix is the top, which could use a new one but is bearable.

 

No drag car updates until this sells.

 

Nice car, seems reliable. I can't believe you haven't sold this, man...

 

I figured it was only time before the top issues started bugging me.

Just ordered the arms that guide the floating rib. I will update the add when they are installed.

 

I am utterly surprised that you still have this. If you want to drop it off up here I'll give you beer, food, and a couch to crash on. Shit, I'd even throw in a 1ga awd shell.

 

This is definitely tempting. Dumb question, does the AC still work?