This is where your Mirage is going to rust out. (Body/chassis corrosion)

[Wallythacker]

^ I've never heard of that before! (Buying a car wash "pass".) That's a neat option.

Hopefully they're not recycling the water... soaking your entire car with hyper-saturated salt water.

I asked that question to Shell Head Office and was informed all car washes use non-recycled water. I formerly had a pass to Petro Can but it was a 6mo. minimum and cost $200 with tax. I found a place in St. Catharines much cheaper, $20/mo with a 3mo. minimum but it is 20km from my house, not really worth a twice weekly drive, much less daily. My current place also has the best fuel price and CAA/Visa discounts meaning their gas is always 6c/l cheaper, and is 2km from my house.

[dspace9]

Unpainted metal bracket that literally rusted to pieces.

The metal rusted there on my car too. So I ziptied the electrical wire between the 2 lights, to make a new license plate light holder of sorts.

Hope this'll keep the lights from dangling down, unless/until the rest of the metal rusts. Poor design by Mitsubishi, not protecting the metal here from winter salt.

Now they're shining light directly down, and not dangling.

[MetroMPG]

These brackets are going to disintegrate on tens of thousands of Mirages in Canada & the Northern US.

Some enterprising person could design & produce a plastic 3D-printed replacement bracket to solve this problem and make a small fortune on Amazon/eBay.

[MetroMPG]

Haha - look at the ad that ALL KNOWING GOOGLE served up to me after I posted the above....

[Daox]

These brackets are going to disintegrate on tens of thousands of Mirages in Canada & the Northern US.

Some enterprising person could design & produce a plastic 3D-printed replacement bracket to solve this problem and make a small fortune on Amazon/eBay.

I did make up my own. I wouldn't be opposed to selling some parts.

[mitsumi]

Before / After....



Attachment 24432

Above: new light bracket made from some aluminum flashing material - very easy to cut & form; won't rust. Screwed into bumper cover with stainless screws.

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thanks so much for this..

[Wallythacker]

I did make up my own. I wouldn't be opposed to selling some parts.

I'm interested

[MightyMirageMpg]

9 salty wisconsin winters in - have a broken light mount and the rear quarter is beginning to rot. fluid film has been working good everywhere else. Glad the rockers and subframes are holding up.

[MetroMPG]

But look at those brake drums! Shiny new?

I wire brushed & repainted mine last year.

[Johnny Mullet]

I always paint my drums and rotors to keep them looking nice.