Basketcase :: 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage DE (Garage entry)

[Fummins]

Thanks! One day I may have to look into that. Probably right before I get rid of my car.

[Dodge Aries K]

Tray table so I can eat food on the road. All these restaurants closed down and take out only makes it difficult to eat while out in ****cago or at other yards so... problem averted kinda sorta.

[Dodge Aries K]

I ordered a PDR tool kit thing (thanks to some hail damage on my cars that recently happened) and decided to see what I could do about the smashed up tail gate on this thing. Figured it's a good thing to experiment on instead of my wife's new 2020 or my nice black 2015.



While not perfect, it's way way way better. Good enough where I don't feel like replacing the gate is necessary. It was nasty and embarrassing to me before so now it looks normal-ish. I also went over all the paint chips and scratches with the Mitsu paint touchup pen so that should help a bit, too. Worst case, I'll buy a new can of the truck bed paint stuff and paint the bottom of the tailgate under the logos and then it'll be perfect for this thing and match the bumper.

[Basic]

LOL this is awesome. If I get all the parts, next time I am in Chi-town for work can I just pay you to program it all?

[Dodge Aries K]

What do you need programmed?

[Basic]

What do you need programmed?

Steering wheel and cruise

[Dodge Aries K]

Oh yeah, that's easy. Get a steering wheel from a cruise equipped Mirage (or the switches if you have a 17 or 18) and a brake light switch from a 2008 Lancer (if you have a 14-15 with a stick... not sure on automatics if it's needed) and it's a pretty easy swap. Bring the crap out to Rockford and I'll be able to do it pretty easily.

[Dodge Aries K]

Okay, some more updates! Mechanically (besides the parking brake cable still... haven't wanted to mess with it yet) the car has been awesome. I bought a TPMS tool from Autel so I could read the codes from the 17 SE wheels and program them into the car so that's done... no more stupid flashing light. Everything seems to work perfectly and the thing drives great.

More exciting, I did a bunch of useless painful to my back seat swapping today and took the seats out of all three of my Mirages and swapped them around. The end result for THIS car is it got the nice seats from my nice blue 2015 ES that I already added a seat heater kit to the driver seat. I took the aftermarket harness, shoved a relay into the heated seat relay spot, cut the blue wire for the heated seat switch connector (it has that connector but not the connectors for the seat, just like my black one) and wired the aftermarket harness up. Drilled a hole in the plastic cover by the parking brake handle for the heated seat switch and it works and looks pretty decent! I don't care about heating the passenger seat in this car so that job is done! Great success!

And... the most exciting part of this rambling update is I found a junkyard in Minnesota that was selling the 14-15 ES nav system for stupid cheap. I paid I think $80 shipped for it (and then sold a Yaris radio I had for $125 shipped using the box and packing materials hahaha) which is really really cheap for one... most of those from pre pulled yards are over $400. It didn't come with the dash bezel or GPS antenna so I had to do some research which was a pain. I figured out it was built by Clarion so I was able to find an aftermarket antenna that works fine for $10 on Amazon. I also went and got an antenna for $25 from a 2018 G4 so I could use the bracket for the Clarion antenna in the stock location. Finally, I figured out the dash bezel is actually DIFFERENT for the Clarion unit. Go figure. Got lucky as hell and did a part number search and found a dealer on eBay selling a brand new bezel for $45 shipped. So it ended up costing more than I was hoping to do this, but it's done and it works. Crap chinese backup camera was also purchased so I could use that feature. The bad part about it is that the phone buttons on the steering wheel (answer, hang up, and the speech recognition) all make the volume go down. I remember that the car I bought that died immediately that had the nav system actually had a different radio control that did not have the phone buttons on it... that'll be an absolute treat to find. I'll try to just leave it be but I know eventually it'll make me mad when I push those buttons expecting it to do what it's supposed to and then it doesn't.

I'll add pictures tomorrow, it's way dark outside by now and I'm too sore to get out of my desk chair unless absolutely necessary right now...

[Dodge Aries K]

Here's a video I poorly recorded about getting dents out of seats. I didn't use the seats on this car but they were originally bought intended to be used on this car. Enjoy my sty garage hahaha.

[Dodge Aries K]

Okay, it's first yard day was successful! I got the missing plastic piece that goes under the bumper and radiator area so now that's on (I assume for fuel economy?) and also acquired a parking brake cable so now the hand brake works!

For those who need parts, there's an almost complete 2014 Mirage DE in red at the LKQ in Milwaukee. I took those parts from it and we also loosened all the lug nuts so someone who wants a set of alloys with okay tires can go get them if you so see fit. Inside was full of junk but was otherwise in good shape. 90K-ish on the clock, CVT, front end was very smashed in. Meant to take the tail lights but forgot so someone go grab them!

Also, at Sturtevant Auto there was a 2017 ES G4 sedan. CVT. Unknown miles. Horribly dirty inside, had the white-ish seats so that was neat. Headlights, taillights, front bumper were all gone. Blue color. Good straight body panels on it though!