Hopefully switching To Evo 9 From M3.
Dec 16, 2010, 07:35 PM
#76
I can claim that my Evo has no rattles, because, well, it doesn't. The car is as tight as a drum. I drove it off the lot with ~5 miles on its clock and unlike many other Evo owners never frucked it up. The car rides on the factory Bilstein setup - not over stiff - it has no aftermarket motor mounts shaking the chassis, here's no exhaust cutout whose low frequency emissions literally tear the car apart and on and on. There are no missing bolts, no forgotten brackets, no mods for the sake of mods. As such, the car is very close to its factory configuration and it does not rattle. My RS didn't rattle, either, but then again, that car wasn't frucked-up by a clueless owner.
Dec 17, 2010, 12:23 AM
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I can claim that my Evo has no rattles, because, well, it doesn't. The car is as tight as a drum. I drove it off the lot with ~5 miles on its clock and unlike many other Evo owners never frucked it up. The car rides on the factory Bilstein setup - not over stiff - it has no aftermarket motor mounts shaking the chassis, here's no exhaust cutout whose low frequency emissions literally tear the car apart and on and on. There are no missing bolts, no forgotten brackets, no mods for the sake of mods. As such, the car is very close to its factory configuration and it does not rattle. My RS didn't rattle, either, but then again, that car wasn't frucked-up by a clueless owner.
anyways. I was just stating that there are evos out there that do rattle. I am not trying to knock or get into a debate about this because someone who posted earlier has nothing but stupid comments and opinions to post on here. This is about the OP trying to get an Evo not about someone bashing the car he is looking to trade\sell.
Dec 17, 2010, 09:31 AM
#78
I can claim that my Evo has no rattles, because, well, it doesn't. The car is as tight as a drum. I drove it off the lot with ~5 miles on its clock and unlike many other Evo owners never frucked it up. The car rides on the factory Bilstein setup - not over stiff - it has no aftermarket motor mounts shaking the chassis, here's no exhaust cutout whose low frequency emissions literally tear the car apart and on and on. There are no missing bolts, no forgotten brackets, no mods for the sake of mods. As such, the car is very close to its factory configuration and it does not rattle. My RS didn't rattle, either, but then again, that car wasn't frucked-up by a clueless owner.
I can see your subtle accusations that many Evo owners mess up their cars, but some how your modification path makes you immune to the rattles that so many Evos are plagued with. Also as contrived as that entire statement was it doesn't really prove much of anything.
My Evo was a 9 MR on the factory Bilsteins and the only thing I had done that made it any different other than stock was the Buschur TBE which had the quiet Magnaflow on it. My car had 6k miles after 2 years of ownership so it was not driven very often. And I still had rattles.
Another example my brother's completely bone stock 9 MR. This car was sold after 3 years of ownership, also purchased brand new and only had 8k miles on it. I think it was raced once EVER!! Otherwise it spent a lot of it's life being cleaned and kept under a car cover and driven occasionally on nice days. It was babied to the extreme and looked like a brand new car when it was sold 3 years later (hence why he got $30k for it). It was never beaten on and had no aftermarket parts. And still it rattled!!
So since you have the magic formula to keeping cars from rattling I'd be interested in knowing what it is. Because in my experience short of never driving the car at all it's pretty hard to keep Evos from not rattling. Every single one I've been in does.
I don't know if it's been mentioned, but has the OP looked at the Evo X yet? Better handling than the CT9A Evo and a litte bit more upscale. Not my thing, but it's definitely worth a look!
Dec 17, 2010, 09:50 AM
#79
My Evo was a 9 MR on the factory Bilsteins and the only thing I had done that made it any different other than stock was the Buschur TBE which had the quiet Magnaflow on it. My car had 6k miles after 2 years of ownership so it was not driven very often. And I still had rattles.
Another example my brother's completely bone stock 9 MR. This car was sold after 3 years of ownership, also purchased brand new and only had 8k miles on it. I think it was raced once EVER!! Otherwise it spent a lot of it's life being cleaned and kept under a car cover and driven occasionally on nice days. It was babied to the extreme and looked like a brand new car when it was sold 3 years later (hence why he got $30k for it). It was never beaten on and had no aftermarket parts. And still it rattled!!
So since you have the magic formula to keeping cars from rattling I'd be interested in knowing what it is.
Because in my experience short of never driving the car at all it's pretty hard to keep Evos from not rattling.
Dec 17, 2010, 09:55 AM
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^ I've got an Evo IX SE (as I've mentioned before) that I bought brand new. About four years and just shy of 37,000 miles later, still no rattles here.
