I understand that your are in a bad mood because you are having car troubles.
Before you start to rant and talk abunch of trash lets go ovver a few obvious issues that seemed to be overlooked by the sympothy posts from everyone else.

If you let a car sit for a year without driving it you will problaby have problems. You need to change your fluids immediatly because they are old.

The throw out bearing is a known problem in the 02-03 Lancers. Every car has its week points and that is the lancers. That aside a faulty throw out bearing WILL NOT cause major problems to your car.

Your car is under warrinty so it shouldnt have been an issue anyways. If you only drive your car for 6 months (so you say) and your car is only 2+ years old you definatly still have warrinty. I will get to that in a bit though.

The throw out bearing doesnt start to fail untill about 8,500-20000 ,iles (im most cases) The problem will occur sooner or later depending on driver, ability and abuse. Regardless the warrinty department at Mitsubishi knoiws ther is a problem with this and will replace it. (problaby not your clutch though but that shouldnt be a problem if you are driving properly)

Your fluids problaby leeked out because you didn't start you car at all and all your seels started to dry up. It happens, thats why when people store there cars they get someone to start them for a few minutes a month.

You say you felt a weekness in the clutch peddle? I dont know what that could be but its definatly not the throw out bearing. The only way to know that your clutch bearing is gone (besids taking apart your transmission and looking at the part) is by listening for it. You will hear a ticking noise and when you press the clutch in it will go away.

Your fan problem will defiantly not cause a major problem to your car. It is a recall. So it should be fixed for free and IF by some small chance that your fan controller caused your car to "Die" then Mitsubishi would be liable to replace it. And they would. But the the cars system just tells the fan to run all teh time when the fan controller starts to go. So that wouldnt be a problem.

Maybe since you didnt drive your car or start it for a long time your bearings in your altinator pully seized up (because they wern't being used) so when you turned on your car your lower belt wan not turning your altinator and your car was relying on your battery for all it's power. Then that ran out of juice and your car "Died" as you say. Not saying that is what happened to you cause I don't really know for sure, I havent seen your car but I does seem to be a more probable senario.


Again, sorry that your having troubles but I dont really believe that your car is dead and if it is it seems to be it is most likely owner neglect to me.

 

You obviously know nothing about cars (sorry if that seems harsh) and you should not be working on your own. The readon why your steering was "Stiff" and your brakes didnt work properly was because the car was not on it was basically in the acessorie position. You can still steer with out major dificulties (I take my power steering belt off every summer and I can do it) I just dont under stand the braking part though. I get the fact that since you car wasnt on you lost power brakes but you can still use them and anoyne in a situation simular has the immediate reaction to push the brakes through the floor (and yes they still do work they are just not power brakes) This should not have been a problem.

Therefore my thoughts on your situation

YOU SUCK AT TEH CAR, buy a buss pass and dont operate a vehicle again. Im glas you didnt kill anyone though

 

Oh ya and most improtantly over anything else.

If you noticed brake fluid leaking out of your car why the hell would you even think about driving it?

You are an idiot.

 

 

actually, with the brakes......go drive your car down a hill without it being on. you get about 5 seconds of brake pressure, and then the brakes have no hydraulic fluid to compress (because the engine is off) and so they stiffen, and do not work. The brakes are a compression of fluid system.

That said, the first thing any idiot learns in drivers ed as a 15 year old is to pull the ebrake (slow of course) if you cant stop any other way and ease yourself off the road.

 

i have a '03 model oz rally and mine was recalled

 

I just called a dealership today in chicago suburbs and they said there is no recall on the water pump.

 

yeah... they water pump is not on recall, its the FCU ( fan control unit. ) anywho...

 

First of all danno i am not an idiot. And the car Wasnt leaking brake fluid when i started driving it again. I was close to my destination when i noticed i had NO clutch. It was on the floor and would not spring back due to air in the lines<similar to brake lines>The lines were full of air cuz the little black rubber seal protecting the bearings had degraded, and the oil was seeping down into the bell housing of the trans, when line pressure was applied. DUH! PLUS! I did understand that this problem was surely from overstorage, but i could not avoid that circumstance. Any ways I FIXED this and posted the warning seen here. DO NO STORE THE CARS FOR EXTENDED PERIODS! FURTHER> I did not purcase the extended warranty and the THREE years or 50,000 miles warranty has expired a few months ago.

 

I didnt have time to contemplate the emergency brake theory when the back end of green sonoma is staring u in the face. But if the opportunity would have presented itself i would have used it. It happened unexpectedly, It was sudden. I did my best. At least no one got hurt.

 

I have recently talked to some other people about this problem, and they stated that the possible reason for no temp guage fluctuation was that i could have gotten a leak somewhere in my cooling system and when the water level got too low the system was circulating steam and the guage cant read temp from steam. The thermostat wont open to cool the engine,therefore building pressure and can blow the head gasket, or more. I accept this as a sound theory, the only problem is im up sh*t creek becuase the radiaters trashed, and whats left of the hoses are fine.

 

I understand that some people like to dis other people to make themselves appear know-it-allish on these threads. If i saw somebody else in a situation like this i wouldnt act like an I TOLD U SO parent figure, i would try to help them if i could. Isnt that what this site is about. Brotherly Lancer love or whatever. Anyways im gled u could have done better. ALL HAIL JEFF< DANNO> GORDON!!!!!!! SMART-***!

 

Ah ha ha ha. Your funny

Anyways, I did apoligize for your crash and I did feel sorry for it but if your read your first post it seemed to be a little loose and there are far too many times when people come on here, bash mitsubishi because they have had a car problem which wanst nessessarly mitsu's fault (I do realize some are, I know first hand about that I had to deal with major problems caused by mitsubishi first hand). I also realize that in situations people freeze up and everyone will point out "What they would have done better" I am sorry you lost your car and I hope that you have better luck in the future.

Danno

 

There is NO! recall on your AC controls. It is a service bulletin. Big difference! People get your facts straight, this thread is nothing but a "rumor starter" and needs to be locked. To the thread starter sorry for your issues with your lancer. But it is a car and things do! break. The lancer overall has a very good reputation for being reliable. But you have an isolated incident, that does not and will not affect anyone else for the most part. I know I am going to get flamed for this but I am sick of all the misinformation on this board, and people taking one incident and thinking their car is going to do the same damn thing!

 

You mean like that recall thread that was posted last week and everyone immediatly believed it. Turned out the guys dad read it wrong. lol